Home automation - To replace radiators or not?

[muggles]

Just a bit temperamental. Some guys seem to have more luck than others installing it; from my experience I've found the signal range to be very poor, the setup to be frustrating at times, Honeywell's support team to be less than helpful, and response times can be sluggish. A couple of guys on here seem to have the installation cracked although I'm not sure that they don't have to go back from time to time to tweak installations to make them work. I've made the switch to Heat Genius, which I'm much happier with and have in my own home. It has 90% of the features of Evohome, plus a few extras Evohome doesn't have, and doesn't seem to suffer from any of the aforementioned niggles

 

[Dan Robinson]

I've made the switch to Heat Genius

Knocked up ion a shed in Birmingham by some bloke scavenging bits from loads of different manufacturers and hamming the control through a Raspberry Pi?

Awesome! .

I'll stick to Evo thanks.

 

[simond]

Yes, it has the home made touch to it.

Evohome has been in production in one form or another since 1998 and Honeywell have learnt many things along the way. There will be plenty of other competitors coming over the next 24 months, now Evohome is becoming a fast seller.

If you want to buy British, most of Evohome is manufactured in Motherwell.

 

[gmc1]

Thanks for the tips guys. I would build the whole thing with a R-Pi or Arduino if I could

 

[CChris]

Im running Evohome, and the only issue I have is the range on one controller to a couple of the radiators, but thats because the house is quite wide. Other than that Ive found it excellent, and ceratinly a lot more efficient than turning on the entire upstairs or downstairs at once using a single thermostat on each floor, or indeed going round turning on or off individual TRV's on 29 radiators depending on wich rooms I want when.

My own issue regarding range is not insurmountable as I could look to relocate some of the receivers and then split the house left/right over the two controllers rather than upstairs/downstairs, but it would be nice if Honeywell made a booster or repeater.

Ive found it very useful, and even the wife classes it as one of, if not the, best piece of technology Ive ever added to the home.