Please I am very new to Hass and am trying to build a heating control system as self contained system as I can (with internet operability).
I have watched many YouTube videos and am unsure of a route on which I should start. I have watched recent videos on home automation making claims that zwave and zigbee are not the future,
We have a very small cottage in the darkest depths of North Wales in the UK. It has an old oil boiler that will probably need replacing in the next 3-4 years but the thermostat is in the wrong room and all the automated radiator valves are broken. I’m happy to an extent with integrations and connectivity its just adding extra system protocols like zigbee and zwave. I’m using a lot of tuya products but haven’t yet managed to get a complete localised system using the ID’s. So I’m trying to standardise at an early stage.
I was wondering if someone could suggest a starting point for Hass on this heating journey
If your house has a heating distributor (e.g. each radiator has its own circuit) and you have electrical current near the distributor you could use my approach (e.g. for a system with 4 radiators):
use some host to run HA on
use a Sonoff ZigBee Bridge
each room with radiator should have its own Sonoff Zigbee temperature sensor
use a Sonoff 4 channel wifi relay to control the electric actuator motors connected to each valve of the different circuits at the distributor.
have a one channel wifi relay connected to the boiler
In HA you can have input_booleans for each room that have radiators (to control the actuator that controls the heating of the room) and input_numbers set to the temperature of that room. You should have an input_boolean that controls the relay connected to the boiler.
You could also have an input_select with the rooms to have the heating based on the temperature of the selected room.
Based on these you can have the logic to control the heating per rooms (in fact radiators or circuits). You have also the option to manually block/allow heating per rooms.
You can then have a generic thermostat whose target_sensor could be a sensor templated based on input_select.
Wow thank you that’s a pretty comprehensive system. I shall have a look at all the components and go through it. After leaving the comments about zigbee and zwave, I dropped the YouTube arguments that they are dying I had a good look at the methods. Thank you I will go and read more
