Hello everyone.
I’m new in the game of home automation.
I recently bought a house and now it’s time to make it smart, but after using the whole weekend searching, I’m still not sure how to approach it. I’ve got theories, but none I’m sure that works.
So I humbly turn to all you experienced people, in hopes of help.
My research has gone me this far:
I’ve got a floor heat on the ground level of my house. It consists of 7 zones, controlled through 2 control areas with normal thermostats. One is in one end of the house and controls 3 zones (living room, office, kitchen) the other is in the other end of the house, in the bathroom, and covers bathroom, hallway and 2 rooms. The floor heating system currently uses the FJVR-type thermostat, which is the return-valve control.
There is no thermostat on the forward pipe, only on the return pipe.
On the top floor, I’ve got radiators in each of the 4 rooms.
I’ve come to terms with the fact, that I would need to replace the pipes of valves in the system, to get something different.
I’ve talked with a local professional, but he only knows default setup stuff - not what is connectable to systems like HASS. He recommended the Danfoss Link (I’m from Denmark, so Danfoss is pretty big here), but I’ve read on the forums that Danfoss is hard to work with and it does not come up as a component on this site, when searching. Then theres heatit, that works on Z-Wave, but would it work with home assistant to create this central hub of control?
Heatit doesn’t show the central piping with thermostatic valves, that all the floor heating pipes connect to - so that kinda threw me off research.
I have a theory, that I pretty much just need to convert my return-controlled system, to a forward control system with a more popular valve (than the FJVR) that would support a normal thermostat replacement, that can be remote controlled and then hook it all together - but I can’t get that confirmed anywhere.
Now, I would love someome that has some experience in a setup like this.
The setup I dream of, is to have everything controllable from the home assistant app and through wall mounted remote controls / thermostats in each room.
And I would love something that would work together with the radiators I have on the top floor.
Controlling heat in the rooms should be easy and should support both manual settings (turning the radiator termostat) and setting it on the wall mounted thermostats.
Anyone got the golden advice that I’m missing?