Re: 'Inteligent' Heating Control

["Patrick Lidstone" <patrick@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

--- In ukha_d@xxxxxxx, "briview" <briview.groups@n...>
wrote:
>
> I want to improve the heating & hot water control I have over and
> above the standard Drayton controller I've got now.  I'm not entirely
> sure what I'm after but I'm thinking some kind of X-10 control of on
> and off's which external temperature input (1-wire perhaps) to adjust
> for when it's really cold.
>
> I thought I remember someone on this group doing something similar but
> no amount of googling will find it now.  Unfortunately the likes of
> Homevision are out of my league so has anyone got ideas / details of
> what could be done PC/X-10/1-wire wise?
>

I think you are looking for
http://www.automatedhome.co.uk/article.php3?story_id=852
(which has
now disappeared).

See also
http://www.automatedhome.co.uk/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=1604

I did something similar at my last house, by wiring a relay in
parallel with the thermostat and using a PC to control it based on
weather station data and a simple rules engine which took into account
occupancy detection and the short term forecast. There's a brief
description of some approaches here:

http://patrick.lidstone.net/haweb/heating.htm

Patrick