Wireless thermostat

[The Other John]

Any recommendations and/or don't touch with the proverbial?

[Capitol]

Next doors is a nightmare.

[JoeJoe]

If you are after a programmable one then this one is worth considering:

It is a Honeywell under the cover, and around a third of the price of a similar one with a Honeywell badge.

Bought it a few months ago after if was recommended here to replace a dead Honeywell CM927, and it works as it should.

[The Other John]

room-thermostat/

That looks interesting - thanks.

[The Other John]

In what respect? Radio/TV interference? Phantom operation of *your* CH?

[Capitol]

Loses connection. followed by logic failure. Has to be restarted from scratch. Can't remember the make, it's rebranded BG.

[ss]

I bought this over a year ago and no complaints.easy to programme.

[Bill Wright]

I bought one badged as Honeywell and it was £55 three years ago. It works fine. Never had a problem with it.

Bill

[Tricky Dicky]

I too am looking for a wireless programmable one that does not need to be f ixed in one position rather one that can be moved from room to room. At pre sent our existing one is in the lounge but we have a 2nd reception room whi ch has a conservatory attached, in this room there is a noticeable temp dro p as the evening progresses. Once the CH system goes into heat maintenance mode not enough heat gets to this 2nd room to keep it comfortable. I know t he ideal solution would be to have a second circuit but to do so would be v ery disruptive and costly hence the movable thermostat. To avoid the lounge getting too hot with the thermostat placed in the 2nd room we already have a TRV on the lounge radiator which we keep on its max. setting to avoid i t conflicting with the thermostat and we have TRVs on all but the bathroom radiator.

You might ask why not permanently place the thermostat in this 2nd room wit h it being the coldest and rely on the TRVs to maintain comfort levels else where? The reason for that is this room is not always used in the evenings so I am quite happy at times for it to be cooler than ideal rather than hea ting up an empty room. It is really for the occasions when both reception r ooms are used that I need this arrangement.

Richard

[Robin]

We use an (ancient) battery-powered Danfloss wireless programmable thermostat which was designed to be fixed to a wall but works happily enough without. I can't see why any other should not do so equally well.

I screwed ours to a small piece of board (a) to keep the battery cover and (b) reduce the risk of a determined user getting it down the back of a sofa ;)

[The Natural Philosopher]

Mine occasionally needs to be totally reset after a thunderstorm,. otherwise reliable

[RJH]

A smart phone controllable 'stat - Nest and suchlike?

[Robin]

Sorry - senior moment. The battery cover is on the front. The board was to cover the "keyholes" on the back for the screws in a wall which would have allowed all sorts of things to get onto the circuit board.

[Davidm]

Did you replace the relay box as well, or use the Plumbcenter controller with the old Honeywell relay box?

My MILs CM927, about 5 years old, has lost the units digit on the temperature display, although otherwise seems to be working ok. I know that there have been display problems with the CM927 in the past, but had hoped they'd been fixed by the time I bought that one.

[Tim Watts]

Well - what functionality do you want?

[The Other John]

Programmable - same every day of the week.

[JoeJoe]

I did, but there was no need as the receiver units are identical.

[The Other John]

The reason I'm looking for a wireless one is because my Honeywell CM901 wired one (3 years old) has just gone faulty - it says the room temperature is 40C (with the heating off). I've tried factory reset - no change and I've left the batteries out for a day in the hope that it might revert to normality but no change. This is the second CM901, the first one didn't work out of the box! So I'm a bit wary of Honeywell. Salus units seem to get mixed reviews from 5 star to 1. I'll just have to keep looking and make up my mind before the frosts set in.

[Brian Gaff]

Some of the lcd displays on Honeywell gear has prematurely failed according to some friends of mine but the unit still worked so to speak. Brian

[David]

room-thermostat/

I did the same (after recommendation from this NG).

I didn't bother to change the controller and the thermostat connected up fine and seems to be doing O.K.

Cheers

Dave R