An update: I’m an idiot.
I’ve been kind of battling this thing because it seemed like it was too good. I felt like no matter what I did it just never turned off so the humidity was always too high. I have it set to 35% (more on that in a minute) and the humidity in the room was more like 50% while the Venta reported 60%. It was maddening.
Yesterday after filling it again (every 2-3 days) I decided to take another crack at the controls. This model has a touch screen of sorts on the top:
First of all, the humidistat is always 10 points too high but support says it’s fine. I’m a little annoyed by that, but whatever. Second, it says auto so it’s running on auto. Right?
The controls are not terribly intuitive. You hold down
auto for three seconds to change the desired humidity, and after holding down auto again it returns to the current reading, but then it never freaking turns off. Why? Because when “auto” is on the display it’s in manual mode. It turns out that you need to tap (but not hold) the auto “button” after which it starts to flash and flashing means that it’s now running on auto.
Dumb.
In my defense the manual is dreadful:
It’s a fabulous humidifier and now that I’ve figured it out I imagine it will run longer between fillings, but man the manual needs a rewrite and the UI (user interface) could be better. Now that I understand it I see why they did it that way since it’s tough to have a single touch screen “button” have three meanings with so little space availably, but damn.
BTW here’s the Sensorpush graph for the same time as the above 50% pic:
Humidity in the room was 41.5% when the Venta read 50%.
