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Version 1.02 (Last updated August 2007) 

The xPL team have published three new how-to guides on their website. The xPLHal guide is very comprehensive and includes screenshots - xPL for Dummies. The other guides are a work in progress and will be updated over the coming days...

Submission by This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it - Well it took a long time to get round to it; it was always one of those things on the list. But it's done now and it even works. So what did I do? Our central heating system is not typical and is also quite extensive so it looked as if I needed a custom solution. We have 6 separate zones: 4 for the heating and 2 for hot water (see the picture of the pumps)...

Submission by This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it - After moving into Orchard House, we soon realised how much you take little things for granted. In our previous house the Central Heating Controller had been in the kitchen and both my Wife and I frequently made use of the "+1 Hr" buttons for both Heating and Hot Water. In Orchard House however, the controller was upstairs inside the airing cupboard. Now it's not a big house, but that was still more of a walk than I thought was strictly necessary ;-) I considered relocating the Controller, but there were no easy cable runs for the Mains cables required. Having recently installed a Comfort alarm, I'd been considering what I could use the Digital Outputs for. Slowly I managed to put 2 and 2 together and get close to 4. I'd install some relays that could control the Heating (240V) on the Comfort Outputs (12V). A 12V cable from Comfort into the airing cupboard was much easier....