Hi All,
First post, and I am new to home automation, so please be gentle.
I took the plunge yesterday and ordered a tado kit to control my central heating and hot water as a first toe dipped into HA. While I wait for that to ship I have another need that should be easy to address, but haven't yet found the ideal solution....
My kids have a "den" above our garage. This is separate from the main house and is heated by an oil filled radiator. As they are kids, they tend to just leave the thing on full blast all the time - which obviously eats energy. I want to monitor the temperature in that room and control the heater to heat to a set temperature point as well as program a time schedule for it.
Some time ago, I built a PID based control unit for home brewing that can do this just fine, but it's a bit of a clunky solution and isn't remotely controllable.
So....is there a simple wifi controllable 240V socket with a built in temperature sensor that I can buy for this application? Or even separate temperature sensors and 240 socket?
Then, what software to use to monitor and control? Our house is all Macs, so it will need to be OSX compatible.
Many thanks on advance!
First post, and I am new to home automation, so please be gentle.
I took the plunge yesterday and ordered a tado kit to control my central heating and hot water as a first toe dipped into HA. While I wait for that to ship I have another need that should be easy to address, but haven't yet found the ideal solution....
My kids have a "den" above our garage. This is separate from the main house and is heated by an oil filled radiator. As they are kids, they tend to just leave the thing on full blast all the time - which obviously eats energy. I want to monitor the temperature in that room and control the heater to heat to a set temperature point as well as program a time schedule for it.
Some time ago, I built a PID based control unit for home brewing that can do this just fine, but it's a bit of a clunky solution and isn't remotely controllable.
So....is there a simple wifi controllable 240V socket with a built in temperature sensor that I can buy for this application? Or even separate temperature sensors and 240 socket?
Then, what software to use to monitor and control? Our house is all Macs, so it will need to be OSX compatible.
Many thanks on advance!
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