ELV Max! Room thermostat

[Bastiaan]

Today my set of heater thermostat and the cube will arrive but I am also in the need of replacing my main wall thermostat in the livingroom. (Giving up on my IP thermostat that brokedown again.)
I have mailed ELV and they told me a version will be available in January:
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Max! room-thermostat
Part.No. 68-09 91 07
Price: 29,95 € plus transport costs

The Max! room-thermostat is deliverable in January 2012.
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Here is the link to the manual: elv-downloads.de/Assets/Produkte/9/991/ ... C-WMV1.pdf
It seems only to be useful for controlling a group of radiatorvalves not really for directly controlling the boiler or floorheating.
In the manual I found this link: http://www.eq-3.de/index.php?id=777
Also there nothing else than controlling radiatorvalves.

Hope they will extend the program a bit further. I have given up on Zwave and IP for controlling my heater system and this seems a very affordable and nice system now we also have Homeseer control.

Bastiaan

[Digit]

Bastiaan,

This Wall Thermostat (WT) can be used to pair with a Radiator Thermostat (RT). This means the internal temperature sensor of the RT will be overridden by the WT, but nothing else changes! The WT doesn't have the ability to control your boiler...

[Bastiaan]

Hi Robert,

Well you inspired me to buy a set but I am aware of the missing link, that's why I posted.
I've just got another reply back from ELV about it:
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Das MAX System um eine Steuerung des Boilers Heizung zu erweitern ist derzeit nicht geplant
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(Bummer) but looking at their range of products it still keep hoping it might come.....
But I will need an alternative that connects properly to HS soon.

[Digit]

Ah, I see it now, I only read half of your post and thought "oops, this is going wrong", and totally missed the "It seems .." remarks...

[matthijskooijman]

I ordered a wall thermostat some time ago and it arrived two weeks ago, so perhaps they're out of stock. However, I also received a letter afterwards, stating there was some bug in the weekly program of the wall thermostate (I think, the letter was in German and I haven't fully translated it yet) and I think they said that they are working on some kind of fix. Not sure what the bug is exactly (haven't tried the thermostat yet), I'll try to put up a scan of the letter here.

Did anyone else get this letter?

[Bastiaan]

There is info on their forum about the bug. It was the reason to suspend the sales but an update version will be on sale in January. There seem to be a simple work around when you also have the cube.

[Digit]

I didn't get that letter, probably because I didn't buy a WT.
Yes, ELV stopped selling the WT because of "a" bug ("a" because I think there'll be more) and somehow this doesn't surprise me...
Tip: I made myself "Abbonent des ELV Forum" (http://www.elv.de/output/controller.asp ... detail2=31); that way I get all messages by mail and stay informed without using the ELV forum, which is really hard to use.

[Snelvuur]

Too bad my german isn't what it should be, and google translate works fine but since their website has some funky methods of coding you cant do every page (or click through it like you normally can with google translate)

[matthijskooijman]

Tip: I made myself "Abbonent des ELV Forum" (http://www.elv.de/output/controller.asp ... detail2=31); that way I get all messages by mail and stay informed without using the ELV forum, which is really hard to use.

Ah, nice. I haven't been using the forums a lot because of the crappy interface, so thanks for the tip :-)