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Re: eQ-3 MAX! Affordable Wireless Heating Control with your Smartphone or Raspberry Pi



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Yes, I think my preferred solution now would be simple wired actuators, as
I would actually have very little trouble getting wire to most of my
radiators, due to my house-of-conduit

Regards

Simon
---



On 16 September 2013 17:17, Stuart Poulton <stuart@xxxxxxx> wrote:

>
>
> Simon,
>
> I think the time to react is caused by the fact that you can't have a
> battery device keeping its radio active all the time.
>
> One to add to the cat 5 flood wiring list.
>
> Stuart
> On 16 Sep 2013 16:23, "Simon McCaughey"
<simonmcc@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> **
>>
>>
>> Interesting timing, I just spent the weekend reading about FS20
controls,
>> considering how to retrofit zoning to my 24 radiators (currently
in 2
>> zones).
>>
>> I still don't think any of these solutions really do what I want,
as they
>> can take several minutes to react to a command, whereas I really
want
>> almost instant reaction (so for example I can set the kids rooms
on, and
>> turn the boiler on, and 10 minutes later the rooms are warm)
>>
>> Thanks for posting, we'll keep an eye for technology updates :)
>>
>> Regards
>>
>> Simon
>> ---
>>
>>
>> On 16 September 2013 13:05, Joseph Heenan <joseph-l@xxxxxxx>
wrote:
>>
>>> On 16/09/2013 08:22, Mark McCall wrote:
>>> > http://autoho.me/16bNA8P
>>> >
>>> Price wise this does sound really good.
>>>
>>> The main flaws seem to be:
>>>
>>> 1. The german timezone/language of the apps?!
>>>
>>> 2. Lack of boiler control
>>>
>>> 3. Non-public API (presumably some kind of API does exist for
the
>>> extravegetables guys to have integrated it with control4).
>>>
>>>
>>> I'm very tempted...
>>>
>>> Joseph
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> ------------------------------------
>>>
>>>
>>> Yahoo! Groups Links
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>
>
>

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&gt;<br>
Price wise this does sound really good.<br>
<br>
The main flaws seem to be:<br>
<br>
1. The german timezone/language of the apps?!<br>
<br>
2. Lack of boiler control<br>
<br>
3. Non-public API (presumably some kind of API does exist for the<br>
extravegetables guys to have integrated it with control4).<br>
<br>
<br>
I&#39;m very tempted...<br>
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Joseph<br>
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