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A setup where the apartment unit (panel building) has a shared boiler room. Nothing special is needed there, just open the appropriate valve.
Step 1 the temperature dropped below the set temperature and is sent to the Sonoff gateway. Step 2 opens the corresponding servo valve. You already have this scenario solved in your temperature control. The same procedure applies to electric underfloor heating. Just turn on the appropriate relay for the given room.
If you have any questions, donât hesitate to reach out to the community. There are several people here with great ideas. Iâll try to sum it up, and if something is missing, please fill me in.
- Holiday mode.
- The option to set it to heat above a certain temperature for a certain period of time.
- Temperature control that learns by itself.
- A better planner for heating.
- The option to switch between simple heating control (which you already have) or an advanced heating system that we mentioned several times.
- Tolerance deviation of 0.1 degree.
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not anymore
Jojkoba, como veo que tienes conocimientos sobre este tema, te hago una pregunta: Âżhas probado esto?
Con NSpanel Pro, puede visualizar la temperatura y el punto de ajuste de temperatura mediante Node-RED para controlar las vålvulas termoståticas. Por ejemplo, si NSpanel Pro establece la temperatura a 21 °C, puede leerla en Node-RED y transferir ese punto de ajuste a las vålvulas.
Uso el ejemplo anterior en casa. DejĂ© de usar NSpanel Pro cuando eom no me dio resultados Ăłptimos. Mi problema es que lo hago como un trabajo para otros. Necesito que funcione y sea fĂĄcil de usar. Node.red, Home Assistant: si eom fallara para una persona normal, serĂa un desastre. No todos, como esta comunidad, pueden abordar la automatizaciĂłn mĂĄs allĂĄ de ser usuarios.
Espero que el traductor lo haya traducido bien. I hope the translator translated it well.
Thank you very much for such detailed explanation. I feel lucky to say I fully understand the setup, it is the same as what I had in my mind.
- Tolerance deviation of 0.1 degree.
Noted, not a problem.
- The option to switch between simple heating control (which you already have) or an advanced heating system that we mentioned several times.
Weâll provide a new one called Central Heating, and leave the old ones untouched.
- The option to set it to heat above a certain temperature for a certain period of time.
Understand, no problem.
- Temperature control that learns by itself.
This requires extra work, so it wonât be available at the first release.
- Holiday mode.
- A better planner for heating.
Are these the same things as Schedule? Like you can set different target temperatures for different days and different time periods. If not, could you please explain a little bit more about them?
By the way, we are going to finish the design this week, and will start developing (coding) the first version next week.
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The holiday mode that I know is that I set it directly in the calendar when the house is on holiday. For example, from 1.12 2025 I am on holiday until 7.12.2025 and during this time it will heat for example to 18 degrees. Automatically 7.12 2025 it will end the holiday mode and start heating normally.
You need to discuss a better planner with the community. I donât know what they mean by that.
The important thing is the multi-zone heating that I drew and explained above. This is how I and other installers do it. try to check this topic with others so that you have a really good quality one.
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I have an idea for new hardware for sonoff
I can confirm this is also covers my usecase, great!
Regarding âHolidayâ mode - i use SONOFF to heat my holiday house. So this house is most of the time in holiday mode (happy house!
) and on regular schedule (day/night) when I arrive for a weekend.
I would find useful âantifreeze modeâ - if any sensor (TRV radiator valve or temperature sensor) is below certain temperature (e.g. <5 deg C) start boiler and open TRV to 10 deg. C. But I guess it might be possible via Holiday mode configuration (choose temperature and list of sensors to check).
Maybe they have anti-freeze protection. Thatâs such an obvious thing that I didnât even mention it.
As mentioned, anti-freeze protection. This means that when the heating is off, it monitors the temperature and if it drops below 5 degrees, it starts heating by itself. I didnât mention it because it goes without saying. If you donât have it, definitely add it.
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They do have antifreeze on TRV valves, but it does not start boiler down in the basement.
And I stopped using current version of Thermostat on NSPanel as it was ureilable. Maybe there was also some anti-freeze.
Got it.
TRV has anti-freeze mode built-in.
@p.silhan The anti-freeze feature in TRV will also work in our new Central Heating solution.
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This protection just needs to be added so that it is available to people who control electric boilers, heat pumps, and the like.
- The option to set it to heat above a certain temperature for a certain period of time.
I talked to our product manager about this feature. It turns out we donât quite understand the use case.
If you need the boiler, TRV or actuator in a room to continue working after the target temperature is reached, why donât you just raise the target temperature?
Is this option designed to prevent the boiler from being turned on/off frequently? I noticed two other options called Compressor Min On Time and Compressor Min Off Time (Link: Google Search) which would keep the boiler working for some more minutes even if the target temperature is reached.
The option to set it to heat above a certain temperature for a certain period of time.
This function was mentioned by someone else here. I experienced that they wanted me to have the heating rise by 2-3 above the set limit for a certain hour, but I solved that in the scheduler. why they wanted it that way, I didnât exist. PS I tried to summarize all the comments from this thread under one post. Therefore, this does not come from me.
I have never dealt with the aforementioned times when controlling a heat pump (compressor). The heat pump handles this on its own and it is not a good idea to interfere with the settings.
Iâm not sure that Iâd ever use the feature (because you can just raise the target temperature, as you said), but some thermostats have a âboostâ feature, where the heating is temporarily turned on above the normal temperature limit. Perhaps thatâs what they would like. See:
I suppose possible use cases would be to dry out wet clothes on the radiators, or perhaps an unexpected return home during a period when the home is normally unoccupied.
Or maybe my usecase for weekendhouse. If heated only for 5-10 deg. C for many days, it takes about a day to warm up all the walls. It might be useful to boost the temperature higher prior arrival.
I have the same problem with version 4.0.12 (Iâm not signed up for the beta; the update appeared automatically). The nspanel pro thermostat doesnât turn off the device after reaching the set temperature. It happens randomly. Sometimes it works correctly, sometimes it doesnât. It seems like itâs stopped controlling the device. I have to turn the thermostat off and back on to the automatic or manual setting, then it works again, but the error keeps recurring.
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