Hi,
Until now I have been using the heating system of a European company. I have 4 TRVs (one for each radiator room) and the central house thermostat installed in the living room. This thermostat and the 4 trvs send temperature information by RF to the boiler hub located in another room and turn the heating on and off depending on the needs of each room. I could replace the radiator thermostats with the new zigbee ones, I could replace the central thermostat of living room with an other evelink thermostat but I donât know about the boiler hub that gives the final command to the boiler to turn on and off what I could replace it with. It does not have to be an RF device. The new hub could be wifi or zigbee, and could operate with the trvs and the main theromstat with routines-scenes.
Thanks in advance
Can you please give more details about it?
I mean, it just open/close the valve, but it will not communicate with the boiler (Nest Learning Thermostat) to turn it on/off. Iâm understanding correctly?
By the way, your link is broken. You need to remove the /ref/1/ to works.
I will try to explain.
We have hot water in the pipes. Hot water is produced by an oil boiler. The old systems were without trvs. You turned on the boiler with a switch and the water circulated. If you felt hot, you turned off the boiler. In the early years we added room thermostats to turn the system on and off automatically. Later we added the thermostatic valves to each radiator to automatically open and close each radiator as we needed heat. Thatâs where we are today.
So I have a switch in the basement (HUB) that turns the burner on and off and receives an RF command from the main thermostat located in the living room of the house.
My quest is to replace the main living room thermostat and the switch located in the basement. The nest thermostats you mentioned are two in one. Thermostat and switch together in one device. I donât want something like that because itâs not right to put the thermostat in the basement!
I think you can consider a temperature sensor and a smart switch for your solution.
You can create a smart scene in the eWeLink APP to achieve a thermostat function, for example,
IF the temp is 26 above, turn off the smart switch (control the ON/OFF of the boiler)
IF the temp is 20 below, turn on the smart switch
As for the temperature sensor, here are the options to choose.
As for the smart switch, it depends on your boiler power.
You also can consider the TH series product if you want to measure the temperature in the basement to turn off/on the boiler.
Hope this helps,
Thank you for your answer.
I was thinking about nspanel or nspanel pro and a pow switch plus three trvs.
What do you think ?
I have a similar system (but without the electronic TRVs yet) My system turns on the boiler using a sonoff at a predetermined time i select and I use a TH temperature reading to run a scene to turn the boiler off as it gets up to Maximum temperature (75c) and then on again when it gets to my minimum temp (60c) saves fuel and prevents the boiler from over heating (also have another independent controller as an overtemp). The TH directly controls the circulating pump. This gives me full control to turn the system on and off remotely even before i get home. plan is to get some sonoff TVRs to give better temp control in unused rooms etc. for even better fuel savings. The whole system is vey simple to setup and control with next to no input from me unless I want to.
yes, with NSPanel or NSPanel Pro, you have the thermostat dashboard to control the temperature flexibly.
It is also a good solution for your case.
You can set up a smart scene in eWeLink APP to trigger other smart devices.
Thank you for your answer.
âTo run a scene to turn off the boiler as it rises to its Maximum temperature (75C) and then turn it back on when it reaches my minimum temperature (60C)â
The boiler does this by itself. When you turn it on somehow, it always runs at those temperatures. When you turn it off, it stops heating the water.
I am interested in the internal thermostat of the house that will give commands to open and close based on the temperature of the house and not the water.
Let me explain the process a bit
- You turn on the switch on the thermostat (on-off) * and the boiler starts to heat up. the thermostat can be located anywhere
- You adjust the temperature of the room on the thermostat to the desired level, for example 22 degrees Celsius, and the boiler will work until the room reaches 22 degrees.
- When it reaches this temperature, it will send a new command to turn off the boiler and only the water circulator will continue to work until the water cools down.
- When you have smart electrostatic heads in addition to the central thermostat, they can also send a heating request when the room they are in has a lower temperature. In other words, these are also thermostats that can turn the boiler on and off.
*Specifically The switch sends a RF command to the farthest room where the systems HUB is located and the HUB sends the electric command with a cable to the boiler.
