I live in rented accommodation and have a Boulter Buderus 500/24/S gas boiler.
The boiler comes with a radio remote on which you can set a daily pattern for the thermostat.
Thing is, during the week I'm hardly in, whereas on the weekend I'm often in all day. Also - there's only about 4 settings per day and it'd be nice to have more and a simple way to override without switching the program off.
So I got to thinking - if this is radio controlled using some kind of (I assume) digital signal then surely there must be a way of using something ELSE, something computer controlled to interface with it. That way I could set the thermostat different based on an endless list that works not only on time of day but on day of the week and where in the year we are (so that I don't even have to bother to switch it off myself for summer).
And that's where I got stuck.
If anyone knows where I could get the information/ equipment to do this I'd be grateful. I'm guessing if anyone knows it will be someone on this forum.
The boiler comes with a radio remote on which you can set a daily pattern for the thermostat.
Thing is, during the week I'm hardly in, whereas on the weekend I'm often in all day. Also - there's only about 4 settings per day and it'd be nice to have more and a simple way to override without switching the program off.
So I got to thinking - if this is radio controlled using some kind of (I assume) digital signal then surely there must be a way of using something ELSE, something computer controlled to interface with it. That way I could set the thermostat different based on an endless list that works not only on time of day but on day of the week and where in the year we are (so that I don't even have to bother to switch it off myself for summer).
And that's where I got stuck.
If anyone knows where I could get the information/ equipment to do this I'd be grateful. I'm guessing if anyone knows it will be someone on this forum.
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