I've just bought my first home and I'm making it all gadgety! I have the Hue system for lighting but am thinking about heating. It currently has the Honeywell CM927 programmable thermostat with BDR91 relay box. I'm presuming I can't use this relay box for any other architecture other then Evohome?
In an ideal world I would want to have control over each radiator as I see this really is the way forward with smart heating but from what I can understand Tado is the only real option here and that would cost around £300 (starter kit and wireless receiver) plus around £59 for each radiator (I have 5), so around £600 in total. That probably seems a bit extravagant after already spending a fortune on other stuff (carpets, floors, washing machine etc etc etc). Evohome seems a similar price.
I think my main thing is to be able to control the heating via my iPhone both inside and when I'm out and about i.e. forgot to turn off the heating etc.
So, are Hive and Nest my only real options; with Hive currently £120 and Nest around £180.
Anybody else had a similar dilemma? Any ideas or help would be greatly appreciated.
In an ideal world I would want to have control over each radiator as I see this really is the way forward with smart heating but from what I can understand Tado is the only real option here and that would cost around £300 (starter kit and wireless receiver) plus around £59 for each radiator (I have 5), so around £600 in total. That probably seems a bit extravagant after already spending a fortune on other stuff (carpets, floors, washing machine etc etc etc). Evohome seems a similar price.
I think my main thing is to be able to control the heating via my iPhone both inside and when I'm out and about i.e. forgot to turn off the heating etc.
So, are Hive and Nest my only real options; with Hive currently £120 and Nest around £180.
Anybody else had a similar dilemma? Any ideas or help would be greatly appreciated.
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