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Home Automation Gadgets
payupconsumervoice
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Hi,
Thinking of getting some home automation kit for our heating. Our new energy supplier offers a product but on a monthly contract.
I've seen Nest and British Gas's Hive.
Any experiences?
Many thanks
Thinking of getting some home automation kit for our heating. Our new energy supplier offers a product but on a monthly contract.
I've seen Nest and British Gas's Hive.
Any experiences?
Many thanks
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I think they're only really beneficial to people who don't know how to use a thermostat.
My step father tends to turn the stat up to maximum when he's cold, then turns it all the way down and opens the windows when it's too warm, he continues this cycle 24/7 from October to April.
Surprisingly the correct operation of a simple thermostat, seems to escape a worrying number of people.“I may not agree with you, but I will defend to the death your right to make an a** of yourself.”
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There are benefits, but may be marginal after installation costs, and take years to repay. How often do you need to turn up the heating from your phone? Your mileage may vary, but it's not something I'd find useful - I can either walk a couple of steps or if I'm not in the house - well why waste energy heating it up empty (and defeating the point of saving energy).
There are also no shared standards for the 'Internet of Things' people talk about as an extension of this - lots of companies racing off in different directions with no compatibility. Use cases are also a little thin on the ground TBH, but I won't spoil the party with that - just that the implementation is somewhat uncoordinated at the moment meaning full home automation is a distance away.0 -
Strider590 wrote: »My step father tends to turn the stat up to maximum when he's cold, then turns it all the way down and opens the windows when it's too warm, he continues this cycle 24/7 from October to April.
What'll he think of one of these then?
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What'll he think of one of these then?
Well, that's the point really, just doing away with the traditional rotary temperature wheel, can stop people getting up to my step fathers silly antics.“I may not agree with you, but I will defend to the death your right to make an a** of yourself.”
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Pointless especially if you get a free one with your supplier, mine will give me a "free" (as long as I give them 18 months from date of installation. Cost of 18months of dual fuel = £350 more over my current tariff(based on average consumption mine is about another 10%)4.8kWp 12x400W Longhi 9.6 kWh battery Giv-hy 5.0 Inverter, WSW facing Essex . Aint no sunshine ☀️ Octopus gas fixed dec 24 @ 5.74 tracker again+ Octopus Intelligent Flux leccy
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Strider590 wrote: »Surprisingly the correct operation of a simple thermostat, seems to escape a worrying number of people.
Yayyyy! Somebody thinks the same as me.
Folk look when I say I never turn off my central heating.
If/when it turns cold, the heating kicks in, simples.
Danfoss TP5000 has performed faultlessly for 7 years.Move along, nothing to see.0 -
If it is just heating control then a programmable thermostat can add a few useful features over a timer stat combo.
The main advantages
most have now are predictive heating you set the times temps you want and the system guesses the heat up times.
short term overrides
holiday mode(heating comes on before you get home)
he Honeywell CM907 is probably the best in class for wired solution.
Once you add internet/apps you can get more overriding of the timer control, decide to stay out leave the heating off, come home early turn it on.
or go with Nest and it has some fancy learning but finding a manual spec on how that works is not obvious.
We chose OWL for heating and water control so can have different temps at different times of the day for both.
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Just the switch to a cheap digi stat can make a big difference as the hysteresis is much narrower than older rotary dial so the temp is much more consistent which aids comfort and most can have a lower setting.0 -
Strider590 wrote: »Surprisingly the correct operation of a simple thermostat, seems to escape a worrying number of people.
The limiting factor with a simple thermostat is one temp(unless you fiddle with it) and if combined with a timer on/off.0 -
payupconsumervoice wrote: »Hi,
Thinking of getting some home automation kit for our heating. Our new energy supplier offers a product but on a monthly contract.
I've seen Nest and British Gas's Hive.
Any experiences?
Many thanks
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OWL
heatmiser
Honeywell
and others
Just checked Honeywell and they now do voice activated programmable connected thermoststs0 -
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