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@dazzler9000 If the heating topic is of interest to you, I would advise you to review the following document which covers and explains many of the concepts that are good to understand prior to get on the market for so called "smart" controls...

@muggles Hi Andrew, Can you explain what you mean exactly by excellent? How does it integrate with the boiler? If it doesn't, that means the boiler needs to be kept artificially on heating demand at all times for the radiator circuit which burns fuel. What might be saved on one side could...

Don’t rush your idea for smart TRVs. They will not make you make much or any economies if they cannot control heating demand from the boiler. As noted by sxturbo, Vaillant boilers are not natively compatible with the OpenTherm protocol. I cannot advise for the module which can be purchased from...

Go beyond the hype and look into getting proper controls with weather compensation which will make use of the boiler's modulation capabilities. Vaillant wiring centre VR71 tbc and VR720 SensoComfort would make you achieve this and the latter could be used as thermostat for your radiator zone. To...