[OpenTRV-interest] Cut heating costs with Radbots on your radiators - Much More With Less

Simon Hobson linux at thehobsons.co.uk
Mon Mar 25 18:27:46 UTC 2019


Damon Hart-Davis <dhd at exnet.com> wrote:

> 1) These devices do not officially talk to a boiler controller yet, as we’re keeping the consumer experience as simple as possible.

I can understand that

> Neither the valve dongle nor the multi-key listener are in a production or open-source state at the moment (we have other solutions in-house), so you’d have some work to do.

"valve dongle" - does that mean that there isn't a radio module installed ?

> TL;DR if you want to try Radbots as standalone clever TRVs, please do so.

I think I will. You mentioned discount codes - I'm guessing these would be similar to the ones in the reviews. Could you send me a code (offlist I assume) ?

>  Anything else is not guaranteed though we know that what you want can eventually be done...
> 
> 2) Actually, tying two units together has not been done yet, we’ve just not had time.  But two of these devices individually controlling rads in the same room should work, and we have some positive feedback from at least one tester to say that it does.

Well, worth a try :-)



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