Hi folks, I have a very classical CV system in my house: it burns oil to heat my boiler to have hot water, and to heat my radiators. Nothing smart at all. Recently I have added a temperature sensor, so I now have the temperature readings of my boiler water in Node-RED available. Would like to tu…

[image] TotallyInformation: wonders if that might be a general recommendation?! First of all, I am a member of the male species. Which means my DNA prevents me from reading manuals... Secondly we are talking about reading the installers manual of a central heating system. I don't know anyb…

[image] BartButenaers: reads such literature for fun Sadly. I do. If only to see if there are any wiring ports, hidden buttons/switches that could be “fun” to see what they do. ( and occasionally to check that the installer did actually set it up correctly )

[image] dceejay: Sadly. I do. Yes that is normal, because you are part of this community :wink:

[image] dceejay: Sadly. I do. Me too! But I'm not sad! :slight_smile:

[image] BartButenaers: my DNA prevents me from reading manuals... ...reminds me of flat pack furniture. I always rip open the box, assemble the furniture, and as a last resort if it doesn't work/look correct, I then read the instructions. [chair]

OMG - I bet you got a lot of flack for assembling it like that?? Did you do all four chairs like that, or just the first one? However, your floor tiling looks absolutely perfect! Minor comment, I would raise the washing machine up by 6.5mm so it lined-up with the top of the cupboard door on its l…

Most if not everything can be somehow made smarter and not just because the "stupid" has the "PID" integrated. Anyway, @BartButenaers your current setup is not that stupid at all. To make it smarter may gain your happyness but the overall win may stay under your expectations. Try to do some calcul…

[image] dynamicdave: Did you do all four chairs like that, or just the first one? Chairs? Who mentioned chairs? I was assembling a table :thinking:

[image] Colin: The temperature control is using PID with node-red-contrib-pid and node-red-contrib-timeprop with cascade control, controlling the individual radiator temperatures to adjust the heat output to each room, and hence control the room temperature. This gives me temperature control to …

[image] BartButenaers: The rvs water vessel is a tank-in-tank type I've never hear of a 'tank in tank' system until now, but it appears that fixing sensors to the outside of the tank would only measure the primary system water temperature, which would heat up very quickly, and bear little res…

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