Thank you in advance for your patience
I live in a rented house in the UK. Standard closed loop boiler supplying CH and HW, wired thermostat in lounge. Honeywell timer/controller by the boiler.
As I am renting, I can bypass the thermometer and controller, but need them to be able to be re commission when I leave property.
What I would like to do is:
Home Automation on the cheap!
Install a wireless TRV on all radiators (except the bathroom, that can be on whenever the heating is circulating to ensure no damp)
The eq-3 max! ones seem the best value.
Set up a Raspberry Pi to communicate directly with the valves to read current setting/temperature and set current setting/temperature. (Not using cube as that adds £55 to the project)
Set up RPi to control CH on/off and HW on/off
A web interface to connect to the RPi to set desrired temperature in each room either manually or on a schedule
RPi to set TRV desired temperture as per schedule.
RPi to poll all TRV perhaps every 30 seconds to see if any TRV are open and turn on/off CH accordingly
I have an RPi. I used to work programming/analyst database designer. I have been out of the loop for 15 years! So no modern skills but a logical and experience mind.
I am hoping that most of this has been done before and that I will just need to patch established modules together, but really no idea where to start. In the future I may wish to automate some lighting, pre-predict heating turn on times based on the outside ambience etc, but this is of secondary concern.
I look forward to your comments
Paul
I live in a rented house in the UK. Standard closed loop boiler supplying CH and HW, wired thermostat in lounge. Honeywell timer/controller by the boiler.
As I am renting, I can bypass the thermometer and controller, but need them to be able to be re commission when I leave property.
What I would like to do is:
Home Automation on the cheap!
Install a wireless TRV on all radiators (except the bathroom, that can be on whenever the heating is circulating to ensure no damp)
The eq-3 max! ones seem the best value.
Set up a Raspberry Pi to communicate directly with the valves to read current setting/temperature and set current setting/temperature. (Not using cube as that adds £55 to the project)
Set up RPi to control CH on/off and HW on/off
A web interface to connect to the RPi to set desrired temperature in each room either manually or on a schedule
RPi to set TRV desired temperture as per schedule.
RPi to poll all TRV perhaps every 30 seconds to see if any TRV are open and turn on/off CH accordingly
I have an RPi. I used to work programming/analyst database designer. I have been out of the loop for 15 years! So no modern skills but a logical and experience mind.
I am hoping that most of this has been done before and that I will just need to patch established modules together, but really no idea where to start. In the future I may wish to automate some lighting, pre-predict heating turn on times based on the outside ambience etc, but this is of secondary concern.
I look forward to your comments
Paul
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