[OpenTRV-dev] Adaptive...

[Damon Hart-Davis]

Hi,

Though I should be doing other things, over the next week or so I may start building into my Arduino TRV implementation the vestiges of an adaptive/learning system, by at least, for example, recording samples temperatures and ambient lighting levels for the last 24h, with a set smoothed over (more than) a weekly cycle, which may be interesting to the MSc student(s) and other researchers I have spoken to.  (Eg to gather research data and to help deduce how much of the heating effort may be wasted on unoccupied rooms.)

I may also try to set it up (though it will be difficult to test in anger before winter) to note how many times warm/bake or frost modes were manually engaged below / above certain temperature thresholds or in certain time buckets as a way of adjusting the thresholds or pre-empting the need for manual intervention.

I have yet to find a suitable PIR occupancy sensor, which would help a lot, or to do any work on using a microphone to detect voices, etc.

Rgds

Damon