Glow-Worm Climapro 2 - controlling

[polygonum_on_google]

Afternoon all,

Where I am living, many houses have been fitted with a variety of Glow-Worm boilers - at least the majority of which have Climapro 2 controller/thermostats.

Everyone hates them.

(Worst battery compartment design of the century. Poor user interface. Lots of issues about losing connection to boiler. Random 'just not working'.)

Is there any alternative way of controlling these boilers? Some sort of app. After all, I think Climapro 2 uses standard wifi to connect.

Or do we have to add a Hive/TaDo/whatever boiler hub unit? If a new unit of sort sort is required, have you got any suggestions/recommendations?

Things like controlling over the internet are not important. It is within the houses that matters.

[alan_m]

I doesn't appear to be wi-fi. It a wireless connection between the controller and receiver and a wired Ebus between the receiver and boiler.

Tado is not self contained within your house. It totally relies on a permanent connection to their cloud service over the internet for any scheduling. If the internet goes down then the only control you have is two manual switches on the receiver and you have to switch the heating (and/or hot water) on and off yourself. While their app allows controls most aspects of the system if you want a boost for an hour and then cancel automatically you have to use something like Alexa. You can boost via the app but it only cancels automatically on the next schedule change which could be 12+ hours later. The App seems to lack the control over some of the features that the system is capable of. All the main functionality on the Tado and their App a free but there are additional paid for subscription services. IMO not worth paying for the gimmick features.

[polygonum_on_google]

Thanks Alan.

I thought that it was wifi from controller to receiver (within the boiler case). Am I wrong? Would be good if we could just replace the controller (by a thermostat and an app).

Thanks for the TaDo detail. Although we have been annoyed by Climapro 2 for years, it has only just risen up the priority scale enough for me to be seriously looking. Hence, still at beginner stage.

I think there is very little interest in the fancy features. But that sounds rather bad when there is no internet. We have computing power beyond belief (three computers and a phone within two feet of me). Going outside the building seems entirely unnecessary for day to day operation.

[alan_m]

Yes you are wrong,

The Transmission/reception frequency is 868MHz

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Wi-fi is 2.4Ghz or 5GHz.

If you used one of the others of your suggestions you would also have to remove the receiver fitted in the boiler and maybe operate the boiler control in a alternative manner, removing some of the Ebus benefits.

[SH]

You could take a look at Drayton Wiser, no internet or cloud needed

[SH]

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