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Hi there. I recently moved into a new house and the heating system is unwieldy. There are six separate elements to control:
I would ultimately like to bring the control of all of the above under one roof with a single controller (whether this is some physical unit or an interface on a phone, or both). If I can’t do that then I would at least like to be able to move some of the above onto a ‘smart’ footing. Ideally I would be able to have everything within one app on my/my wife’s phone, to be able to programme when everything turns on and to be able to remotely control things from outside the house. I’ve taken a few snaps of the various units, which I will link rather than post as I’m not sure that they add much. The boiler is a gas combi – a Worcester Greenstar 42CDI Classic. It is controlled by a Drayton Digistat +2RF. The underfloor heating is controlled by a Honeywell CM927 wireless programmable thermostat. The boiler and the various wiring underneath it for the two thermostats looks like this: 1, 2, 3 The main bathroom has a control unit for the floor made by ‘Warmup’, a fuse trip-switch and a plug which controls the towel rail. The en suite controls are limited to a plug which controls the towel rail and a ‘thermonet’ controller for the floor (with an associated fuse and switch). Anyone have any ideas of where to start with trying to get all of this under one system (or as few systems as possible)?
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# ? Jan 3, 2020 23:37 |
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# ? May 14, 2024 10:45 |
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Anyone have any ideas? Or should I be asking elsewhere?
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# ? Jan 16, 2020 17:56 |
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Are you looking for an out of the box solution or building a system based off micro controllers? There is a ton of info out there to make IoT Arduino/Pi based thermostats and power controllers.
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# ? Jan 17, 2020 05:52 |
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Ideally an out of the box solution. Micro-controllers are well beyond my abilities but I could always pay someone who knows what they're doing if that's the solution.
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# ? Jan 25, 2020 13:03 |
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Might get more responses posting in the fix-it-fast thread; DIY posters are quite siloed into megathreads.
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# ? Jan 28, 2020 22:32 |
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Or the HVAC thread.
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# ? Jan 29, 2020 16:38 |
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toplitzin posted:Or the HVAC thread. Yeah good call, forgot about that one.
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# ? Jan 29, 2020 19:52 |
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# ? May 14, 2024 10:45 |
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I haven't messed with this complexity myself but I did use 2 ecobees and IFTTT in my old house. Perhaps a similar setup with some smart plugs for the heated towel racks could work for you with minimal hacking?
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# ? Jan 30, 2020 23:59 |