[OpenTRV-interest] Question from Steve R

[Mark Wigmore]

If you've got the cash to splash then Evohome works well, but for a
fraction of the cost you can get a similar effect using programmable
motorised TRVs.

You know the old saying, "An engineer can do for £5 what any fool can do
for £50!"

Mark

On 21 November 2015 at 16:56, Tom Reaney <tompreaney at gmail.com> wrote:

> IMHO it is hard to beat components from the Honeywell EvoHome range.
> Why?
> 1. Commercially available off the shelf
> 2. Wireless - FSK 868Mhz dedicated
> 3. IFTTT - if this then that support
>
> BTW I have no affiliation to Honeywell commercial, technical or otherwise.
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>> Hi,
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>> Posting this on behalf of Steve R who I hope is in the process of joining
>> the interest group (please direct responses there, only, for now):
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>> Subject: Open TRV what's going on
>>
>>
>> Hi, I am quite interested in the notion of the open trv, but - for my
>> purposes
>> at least I think it is a bit over the top. I am using a biomass boiler
>> that we
>> run to heat up a 2000l accumulator tank. I control the heating with a hand
>> coded rasbperrypi and a couple of energenie plugs to turn on the pump for
>> the
>> house and hot water. I have been craving after something like the OTRV
>> for a
>> while, so I can spot heat the house, so bedrooms in the morning living
>> room in
>> the evening with a sensible default temperature for the house.
>>
>> What I would like - I think - is the hardware so I can try to hook it up
>> to my
>> existing system. I can't figure out how to do that from the website(s).
>>
>> Is it possible?
>>
>> Steve
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