it did make me wonder about a thermostat which could
be controlled remotely over the Internet.
Preferably without relying on a 3rd party server which might vanish in the future.
Does anyone have such a set up?
Having been away for a few days with the CH on a low setting, it took a couple of hours to bring the house back up to temperature.
Not a big thing, but it did make me wonder about a thermostat which could
be controlled remotely over the Internet.
Preferably without relying on a 3rd party server which might vanish in the future.
Does anyone have such a set up?
We don't have any investment in home automation, or Alexa et. al. so it
would have to be more or less from scratch.
The router has VPN capability built in, as well as other things, so connecting into a server on the home LAN would be possible.
Raspberry Pi or two floating about as well.
This isn't a vital feature, more of "I wonder if..".
Cheers
Dave R
On 16/12/2024 16:50, David wrote:
Having been away for a few days with the CH on a low setting, it took a
couple of hours to bring the house back up to temperature.
Not a big thing, but it did make me wonder about a thermostat which
could be controlled remotely over the Internet.
Preferably without relying on a 3rd party server which might vanish in
the future.
Does anyone have such a set up?
Yup. but you wouldnt like it
We don't have any investment in home automation, or Alexa et. al. so itAs was mine
would have to be more or less from scratch.
The router has VPN capability built in, as well as other things, soI have a Pi Zero W running code attached to my own 4 mains relay board running a small website that accepts data from thermometers based on Pi
connecting into a server on the home LAN would be possible.
Raspberry Pi or two floating about as well.
This isn't a vital feature, more of "I wonder if..".
PICO Ws and has a fairly complex set of rules as to what temperature at
what time. Its a 4 zone setup - one is DHW - but only 3 are currently in
use.
You need to be able to at leats understand C and Linux and be able to
solder to make it all work, but happy to provide PCBs, 3D printed cases
and code if you are interested
Thank you for the very generous offer.
At the moment I have a massive backlog of things to do so a DIY project of this kind would be too much additional load.
I was really looking for a "look! shiny!" at an amazingly cheap price.
It is almost Xmas and a passing sled might chuck something out.
Having been away for a few days with the CH on a low setting, it took a couple of hours to bring the house back up to temperature.
Not a big thing, but it did make me wonder about a thermostat which could
be controlled remotely over the Internet.
Preferably without relying on a 3rd party server which might vanish in the future.
Does anyone have such a set up?
My Hive system provides remote control very effective. (As would a nest system, I believe).
But they do rely on a remote server which could - in theory - disappear
at any time.
On 16/12/2024 16:50, David wrote:
Having been away for a few days with the CH on a low setting, it took a
couple of hours to bring the house back up to temperature.
Not a big thing, but it did make me wonder about a thermostat which
could be controlled remotely over the Internet.
Preferably without relying on a 3rd party server which might vanish in
the future.
Does anyone have such a set up?
I was in a similar situation, and solved it by buying a Tapo Smart Plug, which you can get from Toolstation, Argos etc for about £10. It's programmable from an App on your smartphone, assuming you have one.
All I've done is plug in the central heating system via this smartplug
and turn it off when we leave, and then on again a few hours before we
are due back to allow the house to warm up. This avoids all wiring
changes, as would be needed to put in an alternative or duplicate
thermostat.
With my setup, it means that the normal timeswitch is off the whole time
that we are away, so depletes its backup battery which keeps the clock
in sync, but so far that hasn't been a problem. The Tapo has a lot of functions that I have not used, but for merely remotely turning
something on/off it seems fine. I've used it twice for short holidays
so far, and it's worked fine. I was even considering getting another
Tapo or two to control lights etc.
You have to set the Tapo up with your wifi router, but it's a fairly
simple process. This probably means your wifi password gets passed to
the Chinese Government, but I expect they know it already. In fact I
was a bit surprised that Tapo didn't tell me what my password was rather
than have me tell it - this friend of Prince Andrew obviously hasn't
been doing his stuff properly. :-)
I too wondered about making something myself with a Raspberry Pi and a
bit of programming and soldering, but if you can get a gizmo off the
shelf that does the job almost instanly, why bother, I thought.
Regards
On Mon, 16 Dec 2024 22:05:28 +0000, Clive Page wrote:
On 16/12/2024 16:50, David wrote:
Having been away for a few days with the CH on a low setting, it took a
couple of hours to bring the house back up to temperature.
Not a big thing, but it did make me wonder about a thermostat which
could be controlled remotely over the Internet.
Preferably without relying on a 3rd party server which might vanish in
the future.
Does anyone have such a set up?
I was in a similar situation, and solved it by buying a Tapo Smart Plug,
which you can get from Toolstation, Argos etc for about £10. It's
programmable from an App on your smartphone, assuming you have one.
All I've done is plug in the central heating system via this smartplug
and turn it off when we leave, and then on again a few hours before we
are due back to allow the house to warm up. This avoids all wiring
changes, as would be needed to put in an alternative or duplicate
thermostat.
With my setup, it means that the normal timeswitch is off the whole time
that we are away, so depletes its backup battery which keeps the clock
in sync, but so far that hasn't been a problem. The Tapo has a lot of
functions that I have not used, but for merely remotely turning
something on/off it seems fine. I've used it twice for short holidays
so far, and it's worked fine. I was even considering getting another
Tapo or two to control lights etc.
You have to set the Tapo up with your wifi router, but it's a fairly
simple process. This probably means your wifi password gets passed to
the Chinese Government, but I expect they know it already. In fact I
was a bit surprised that Tapo didn't tell me what my password was rather
than have me tell it - this friend of Prince Andrew obviously hasn't
been doing his stuff properly. :-)
I too wondered about making something myself with a Raspberry Pi and a
bit of programming and soldering, but if you can get a gizmo off the
shelf that does the job almost instanly, why bother, I thought.
Regards
I already have a wireless thermostat (Honeywell or near offer) so I don't have a wall thermostat.
The solution would have to work alongside this thermostat, or replace it completely as far as I can see at the moment.
I can't just turn the CH off because I need frost protection - in fact the home insurance requires a minimum temperature to be maintained when the
house is left empty.
We travel abroad over winter sometimes, and we also use our motor Home all year round.
Cheers
Dave R
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