Thermostat with PID controller

Wauw, I like your way of doing stuff - especially the before and after graph… this is a data scientist at work.

My situation is similar: it’s a house from 1840 which we completely renovated and isolated. We have large windows on the south side and these interfere a lot with the generic thermostat.

As for heating, I have a Itho Daalderop Central Heater (instead of your stadsverwarming) and for each room, I can control the valves of the underfloor heating. All is controlled by HomeAssistant.

  • If any room is requesting heating, the valves of that room open and central heating is turned on.
  • If no room is requesting heating, the central heating is turned off.

The valves itself are thermo-electric (e.g. candlewax valves: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wax_motor). The response times of the valves is about 2-3 minutes to open and 10 minutes to close.

So, my gut feeling says:

  • The PWM won’t work as response time of the wax valves is too slow / I have fear the wax motors will die faster if I use PWM
  • The influence of the sun/weather is large due to the windows on the south side and should be taken into account

And to be honest: I don’t know anything about a PID thermostat :smirk:. I should put it on my todo-learning list soon but my gut feeling says it won’t work due to the external influences. Or am I wrong?