Adding wireless Boiler stat

Mar 07, 2020 Last reply: 6 years ago 31 Replies

I can only speak for the Hive system but should imagine other smart systems are pretty much the same. The basic system consists of the wireless thermostat that communicates with a receiver that is wired to the boiler and a hub connected with CAT5 to the router and communicates wirelessly to the receiver. If you do not intend to use the app to control the system or over the internet then the hub is not required. The receiver only needs to be placed where it will receive a signal from the thermostat and likewise the hub but needs wiring back to the boiler.

In our instance the router is in the hallway and so is the hub and the receiver, the receiver is wired through the wall to the boiler which is situated in an airing cupboard in a bathroom off the hallway. As for the thermostat that can be fixed permanently to a wall or mounted on a stand and taken to different rooms. I have tried it in various locations and it has not failed to communicate despite all internal walls being of block construction.

Richard

if all trvs shut down because the temperature has reached the required level, the boiler just spends its time short cycling - heating up the pipes and then switching off again. While the pump runs all the time against an almost blocked circuit

Have a look under surrounding floorboards etc to see if you can locate the cable?

Thanks. Our router is in the middle of the main house but not the extensions. If I take a laptop/smartphone to where the boiler is I lose connectivity. The extension is flat roofed into the bungalow and getting wires from one to the other is not easy. The bungalow is fully carpeted and the attic fully floorboarded. Might have to resort to a powerlink device.

I have one in my study (another extension) which works - most of the time.

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Took mins to fit .... 4 push fit connectors- direct replacement for existing mechanical timer. Put batteries in remote thermostat .... sync'd and worked instantly ...... there were comprehensive instructions about Wireless Pairing - not needed.

Longest part of the job was screwing Thermostat to the wall.

Thermostat is in hallway so removed the TRV head off the rad in the hall way, assume that makes senses ... otherwise rad could be shutting off early preventing Thermostat getting to temp.

Isolate boiler electrically .... 2 screws to open front of boiler, hinged panel folds down, 2 screw hold in plastic cover over mech timer. Remove them, lift off plastic lid ...timer lifts out .... swap over connections (push fit) and screw it back together. All in less than 5 mins.

The cable will be buried in wall behind new tiles in kitchen ..... somewhere.

Avoid Salus. Cheap, nasty with a difficult to understand user interface. TRy EPH. Simple to use and well priced. The EPH Comibipack is wireless "and" Opentherm modulating the boilers burner to the room temperature - where Opentherm is fitted on a boiler of course. It can be used as a simple stat, or a timer as well. Very well priced on the web. Fit one and it conforms to Boiler Plus requirements.

Thanks. Just need to think about the wireless connecton.

Our hall radiator is the one that doesn't have a TRV. One less job.

Never quite understood why people put them there. The one part of the house you only ever pass through. And subject to draughts etc when the front door is opened.

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