HouseHeat

["Martyn Wendon" <martynwendon@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Did anybody here end up trying out any HouseHeat products
(http://www.house-intelligence.co.uk/)?

A couple of months back I got a single Thermostat Control and Rad Actuator
and was pretty impressed with it.

I'm now up to 4 Thermostat Controls / Rad Actuators and have just received
the PC Connect hardware (FHZ1300PC) which allows control from a PC.

The supplied software is pretty cr*p so I've been investigating
alternatives, which are pretty thin on the ground.  There's a DLL available
for developing your own but it relies on the original software being
installed which the DLL then "controls" via Windows API
calls.....pretty
cr*p too!!


Happily though I've discovered http://www.koeniglich.de/fhem/fhem.html
which
I've managed to get working with the hardware.  FHEM is a pretty basic
piece
of HA software, but it seems to work very well with the FHZ hardware and
allows full control / event reporting of the Thermostat Controls, not to
mention many other bits of kit that use the FHZ protocol.

There's a TCP/IP interface available to FHEM so I'm going to code up a xAP
or xPL gateway to it, which should open the HouseHeat stuff being
controllable from a whole host of other software.


Cheers,

Martyn




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