After using a fairly simple solution in the first post on the subject, I now have a sensor in use that automatically detects when the window is open and then turns the heating down. This completely automates the control system. I took my very simple door/window sensor and integrated it into my Home Assistant. This … Read more
After I was quite happy with my smart heating control system, my partner asked me what I should do when I open the window in the bathroom after showering. Since I still had a Sonoff Button lying around, I put it on the window in the bathroom and wrote two automations that take over the … Read more
In order to check whether our house was suitable for a heat pump, I needed to know the preheating temperature and set it so that it did not exceed 40°C. I already have an ESP with a 4-channel relay board in the boiler room and had experience with the Dallas temperature sensor. So I connected … Read more
Here is part two of my journey to smart heating control. First of all, I created some helpers: The selection of the scene then controls the heating control sequence.E.g. Tue & Thu in Cologne, then everything goes to day temperature at 6:00am, but Tue & Thu the heating switches to night temperature during office hours … Read more
We have a gas heating system in the basement, a fairly old one. In the living room there was a bimetal thermostat to control it and there were normal thermostats on the radiators. I already had Comet Dect radiator thermostats from my old apartment, which I could control via the Fritzbox. These are replicas of … Read more
They are on everyone’s lips and not exactly cheap, radiator fans. The fans are mounted under a radiator and turn on automatically when the radiator heats up. And they are good too, the energy efficiency is significantly higher, the room warms up faster. But since they are too expensive for me and I need a very small … Read more
I use some of these Comet WiFi thermostats from eurotronic , they are quite cheap. They were also easy to integrate into my old Telekom smart home solution. When I switched to Home Assistant, I found that there was no integration for the thermostats. So I went on a search and found information in several articles on the Internet on … Read more