[OpenTRV-interest] getting hands on some valves

[Damon Hart-Davis]

Hi,

As soon as Mark and I have a moment to get stuff sorted properly (he is in Finland for the next few days) we’ll get stuff up and running.

Note that this initial shop stock will be *devs only* so will be supplied without code, and with links to how to build and load code, eg with particular tags.

We’ll work out how to get the Radbot consumer version back on the road later, still aiming for the original availability date.

A couple of questions for everyone to help us get this stuff sorted:

 1) How would people like to pay?  Bank transfer /  Credit/debit card / cheques?  (Each have pros and cons in terms of speed of setting stuff up.)

 2) Are people happy to pre-order for delivery the other side of Christmas?

 3) Are people happy to (say) get kit at a discount where one feature is not functioning, eg radio TX, or boost button, etc?  We have a great variety of battle-tested stuff and not everyone needs every bit working, and frankly otherwise I may feel compelled to hoard!  %^P

Rgds

Damon


> On 28 Nov 2016, at 09:40, Stuart Poulton <stuart at poulton.org.uk> wrote:
> 
> Ok, so I missed the 'A Web shop will be appearing soon'
> 
> Damon, any chance of some indicative pricing ?
> 
> On Mon, Nov 28, 2016 at 9:38 AM, Stuart Poulton <stuart at poulton.org.uk> wrote:
> Great to see lots of responses. On the basis of the info in this thread here's what we know so far.
> 
> - This thread came about following the cancellation of Crowdfunding the launch of RADBOT
> - Most people are looking for 8-10 valves
> - There are currently no details around the control of the boiler
> - No details regarding what interface will be to for example a RaspberryPi (I suspect serial<->RF unit.
> - No details on pricing 
> - No details on how to formally request hardware
> 
> Thanks to Damon and Mark for contributing from a 'commercial' perspective. Hopefully we'll all be able to move forward and get a working solution along with an active development community.
> 
> Stuart
> 
> 
> On Mon, Nov 28, 2016 at 8:31 AM, Dave Shaw <dave.shaw.kford at gmail.com> wrote:
> Same situation here. Already got my motion sensors in each room and a predictive algorithm sorted just need the TRVs to take it to the next step. I would need 10 for a full house solution. Willing to contribute knowledge and cash if necessary!
> 
> 
> On 28 Nov 2016 07:51, "Kairos" <kairosmedia at swissmail.org> wrote:
> At 20:20 27/11/2016, you wrote:
> >Jason Pearce <jason at pearce.org.uk> wrote: > I would need 7 (unless you no longer need a central thermostat with this solution, in which I would need 8) You want 8 then. The basic idea is that a single thermostat is actually very poor at controlling the system.
> 
> I have been following this project for some time and I would like to get hold of one unit for testing. In particular I want to find out:
> 
> -- How resilient the TRV is to wifi congestion/outage?
> -- How reliable are the mechanical components.
> -- How easy to integrate into a custom control system (say one based on an RPi).
> -- What exactly "open" in "OpenTRV" means..
> 
> I'll be happy to pay for one, and will naturally submit any findings to whomever for their development work..
> 
> It isn't clear to me whether simply sending this email constitutes a resuest for a unit, or if there is a more formal request system...
> 
> ??
> 
> Nick
> 
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