Starting out with central heating / radiator control
Posted: Mon Oct 24, 2011 4:05 pm
Hi,
I have been looking around this forum and the internet for like 5-6 months now and I'm not getting anywhere on what I would like to achieve.
Hope you guys can help me in that department.
I want to start with domotica and am going to program a java client/server application with a web front-end.
That's the easy part for me, now the hard part:
I want to control the entire heating of my house.
I have (at current) 5 different zones consisting of: living room, work/study, kitchen, bathroom and others.
What I am looking for are radiator valves which are adjustable. Like full open, 3/4, 1/2, 1/4, closed. (Or something like that).
It would be nice if they could also tell me the room temperature, but it's ok if I need to hang an extra temperature sensor in that room.
I have main-floor-heating, so I also need to control the different loops to the various rooms.
Then I need some way to control my central heating device (intergas prestige cw6).
So the software is not a problem, that is the easy part, I really need advice on the different kinds of hardware I need to get this done.
I have been looking at z-wave and it sure is promising, but I'm missing any link to an actual device.
Although the Danfoss living connect seem OK, I only see people complaining about them.
Sure hope you guys can help me out.
Regards,
mike
I have been looking around this forum and the internet for like 5-6 months now and I'm not getting anywhere on what I would like to achieve.
Hope you guys can help me in that department.
I want to start with domotica and am going to program a java client/server application with a web front-end.
That's the easy part for me, now the hard part:
I want to control the entire heating of my house.
I have (at current) 5 different zones consisting of: living room, work/study, kitchen, bathroom and others.
What I am looking for are radiator valves which are adjustable. Like full open, 3/4, 1/2, 1/4, closed. (Or something like that).
It would be nice if they could also tell me the room temperature, but it's ok if I need to hang an extra temperature sensor in that room.
I have main-floor-heating, so I also need to control the different loops to the various rooms.
Then I need some way to control my central heating device (intergas prestige cw6).
So the software is not a problem, that is the easy part, I really need advice on the different kinds of hardware I need to get this done.
I have been looking at z-wave and it sure is promising, but I'm missing any link to an actual device.
Although the Danfoss living connect seem OK, I only see people complaining about them.
Sure hope you guys can help me out.
Regards,
mike