Newby: climate control questions
Posted: Sun Jan 03, 2010 2:56 pm
Hello,
I’m a beginner into Domotica and at the moment I’m surfing internet to get to know more. In the meanwhile I post my questions here, to make a fast start.
The plan is to make a climate control system for our house. At the moment we are using a Honeywell chromotherm IV thermostat which has every day of the week programmed. This works pretty well although there are some shortcomings:
1) When we leave the house for a couple of hours we sometimes forget to lower the temperature
2) The bathroom is heated all day, but needs to be only only warmed in the morning
3) The bedrooms are not heated, but it would be nice if they could warm up just before we go to bed.
4) Honeywell Chromterm is inefficient to program when you are a week at home: each day you have to press ‘today is Sunday’
Here’s the plan:
1) Replace the Chromoterm (or add an input signal?) with a programmable ‘domotica CPU’
2) Place a (wireless?) IR sensor in the living room and a wireless ‘current sensor’ on the TV-plug, so the domitica system knows if there are people at home. The domotica CPU has a rule like ‘IF (the IR sensor is low for more than 15 minutes) AND (the TV power is less than 10 Watt) AND (time is between 9:00 and 22:00) THAN set temperature to 17 degrees Celcius
3) Replace the radiator valves in bathroom and bedrooms with wireless, battery operated types
Questions:
1) Which system do you recommend?
2) The IR sensors I know are pretty ugly. Are there any Domotica alternatives which look nice enough to place in the living room?
3) Does the ‘current/power’ sensor for the TV exist?
4) Does the wireless, battery operated radiator valve exist?
Thank you,
Rene
I’m a beginner into Domotica and at the moment I’m surfing internet to get to know more. In the meanwhile I post my questions here, to make a fast start.
The plan is to make a climate control system for our house. At the moment we are using a Honeywell chromotherm IV thermostat which has every day of the week programmed. This works pretty well although there are some shortcomings:
1) When we leave the house for a couple of hours we sometimes forget to lower the temperature
2) The bathroom is heated all day, but needs to be only only warmed in the morning
3) The bedrooms are not heated, but it would be nice if they could warm up just before we go to bed.
4) Honeywell Chromterm is inefficient to program when you are a week at home: each day you have to press ‘today is Sunday’
Here’s the plan:
1) Replace the Chromoterm (or add an input signal?) with a programmable ‘domotica CPU’
2) Place a (wireless?) IR sensor in the living room and a wireless ‘current sensor’ on the TV-plug, so the domitica system knows if there are people at home. The domotica CPU has a rule like ‘IF (the IR sensor is low for more than 15 minutes) AND (the TV power is less than 10 Watt) AND (time is between 9:00 and 22:00) THAN set temperature to 17 degrees Celcius
3) Replace the radiator valves in bathroom and bedrooms with wireless, battery operated types
Questions:
1) Which system do you recommend?
2) The IR sensors I know are pretty ugly. Are there any Domotica alternatives which look nice enough to place in the living room?
3) Does the ‘current/power’ sensor for the TV exist?
4) Does the wireless, battery operated radiator valve exist?
Thank you,
Rene