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    Boiler backplate - Hot water needed for heating

    Maybe if I try to get the ball rolling with some manual steps? Do you have a PC with WiFi? If so maybe we could use a browser extension like RESTED in Firefox to get started? If you press the Setup button (on the left) of the Wiser Hub it creates a temporary WiFi network. Note down the name, I...
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    Boiler backplate - Hot water needed for heating

    Sorry. The pipe has a diameter of 28mm yes. The pipe on one side goes through a wall and leads to the back of the boiler. On the other side it goes through a wall that's in the direction of the hot water cylinder. Ah! OK I'll try setting the cylinder thermostat low soon and check if it's...
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    Boiler backplate - Hot water needed for heating

    Sorry, still not sure I understand :( why would turning on HW when the CH is turned on not be sufficient? If I did that wouldn't that mean that if the room thermostat called for heat then both CH and HW would be turned on and hence would work? Then once the room thermostat was 'happy' then CH...
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    Boiler backplate - Hot water needed for heating

    That certainly works, it's what we did with the SM2. I just want to make better use of the thermostat and avoid using gas when the temperature is already good (y)
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    Boiler backplate - Hot water needed for heating

    He he yeh don't worry, I've known that from before I posted, and that's what the above can (probably) achieve.
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    Boiler backplate - Hot water needed for heating

    Darn! That would have been easier. Serves me right for not educating myself better upfront. After a bit of experimentation I can detect when the Hub has enabled the heating relay from http://hubhostname/data/domain/ since it contains: { ... "HeatingChannel": [ { "id": 1...
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    Boiler backplate - Hot water needed for heating

    That's fair. The Wiser wasn't expensive (it's used) and is still useful, I mainly bought it for the timer and remote control. The pins on the SM2 are pretty dodgy making it unreliable as a timer. Now I look at it closely I'm not sure it's wired to anything? o_O WHAT! :LOL: I wish I'd known...
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    Boiler backplate - Hot water needed for heating

    I admire your optimism! ;) No, the LED would light, there would be pump-y sounds but the boiler wouldn't do anything. This was never a problem for the previous owners (or us up to now) due to the lack any thermostat. (I found a date, the boiler is 36 years old) Either you moved the pins...
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    Boiler backplate - Hot water needed for heating

    Thanks for the responses! Blast! Any other simple options if I can't solve this via wall plate wiring alone? Not a problem as it looks like this system has never had a room thermostat. If the heating is turned on without the hot water I can hear 'pump-y' sounds but the boiler doesn't...
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    Boiler backplate - Hot water needed for heating

    Hi, I have a pretty old gas boiler system, it's a two channel setup. Oddly for the central heating to work the hot water must also be on :confused: Recently I've swapped out the mechanical timer with a Drayton Wiser Hub. So for the first time I now have a thermostat (y) But that leads to a...
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