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I have the Wiser radiator thermostats and room thermostats on my gas heating, I am now into the second winter since I installed it all. I am starting to question whether having individual zones/rooms all having the ability to request heat is a good idea. The radiator TRV’s are not very good at estimating room temperature but it’s not economically viable to have a room thermostat in every room. I need to experiment with having fewer zones/rooms as at the moment the room temperature swings with the TRV’s is too much (approx 6 or 7 degrees c). A good example was last night when the TRV measured room temp was as low as 14c and when the heating came on this morning the TRV got to 20c in approx 45mins but I have a seperate thermostat in the room which measured minimum overnight room temp of 16c and when the TRV stopped requesting heat the room temp was only 18c.Thank you @CBW needs some careful reading.
@mcprinter it is a little unclear with Kasa and Tapo both part of the TP-Link, there was a Tapo wall thermostat, but can't find any for sale.
The TRV was got to replace a broken Energenie as it can be manually set, where the Energenie gives very little manual control, and the Kasa was cheap, and I use the hubs as double as door bells.
I have seen some good but cheap wall thermostats, but I need a wireless wall thermostat as boiler in flat, and need thermostat in main house.
I had delayed to see age cymru first in case they had some ideas I had not considered, but he agreed second thermostat in main living room a good idea.
If I use a thermostat which can link to TRV, then I could put the linked into wife's bedroom, and put the eQ-3 in the flat. Cheap optio seems to be Hive, but not sure if I would need a second zigbee hub, if my existing one will work great, but if not then not much between Hive and Wiser, and Wiser is clearly the better product.
Thank you for your candid reply. I did use the Energenie in mothers old house, with a modulating boiler, and found the lock shield valve setting was critical. The display helped to set it, if current exceeds target then close a tad, and clearly the reverse, but set at 20ºC at 7 am it was nearly 11 am before actually got to 20ºC, so cheated and at 7 am set to 22ºC and at 8 am set to 20ºC and in the main at temperature by 8 am.I have the Wiser radiator thermostats and room thermostats on my gas heating, I am now into the second winter since I installed it all. I am starting to question whether having individual zones/rooms all having the ability to request heat is a good idea. The radiator TRV’s are not very good at estimating room temperature but it’s not economically viable to have a room thermostat in every room. I need to experiment with having fewer zones/rooms as at the moment the room temperature swings with the TRV’s is too much (approx 6 or 7 degrees c). A good example was last night when the TRV measured room temp was as low as 14c and when the heating came on this morning the TRV got to 20c in approx 45mins but I have a seperate thermostat in the room which measured minimum overnight room temp of 16c and when the TRV stopped requesting heat the room temp was only 18c.
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