RE: Control of heating (X10/Comfort/HV etc)

["Kenneth Watt" <kennwatt@xxxxxxx>]

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> I've been looking at both the RCS TX15B as sold on Lets Automate and
> the upcoming Honeywell Smartfit interface with Comfort.
>
> I need some advice and ideas as to what others have done to control
> their heating (no AC).
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> Ideally I'd like to be able to control setpoint, get a report of
> current temp, confirm heating is on/off (bidirectional X10 or hard
> wire I guess), set up 7 day program and turn heating on depending on
> alarm state (i.e. on when day mode & unarmed, off when night mode
> but turning on in the morning, off when away or holiday).
>

Paul,

I have an RCS TX15B and it does the above status, reporting and it
supports setbacks when out/house alarmed etc. The smarts are in the
programming in HV where HV decides what should be done with the heating
based on outside temp, time of day, away on holiday or just out status
of the house.

Your problem is confirmation that the heating is actually on, the stat
can tell you that the system is in heat, cool or auto mode as well as
the setpoint and current temp but it cannot determine a way of telling
you that the boiler is running. It is my intention to suss a way to do
this, but I'm a bit busy with other stuff at the moment.

Works very well indeed

HTH

K.