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Request for help - IFTTT / DO recipes needed

Dear evohome & Single zone thermostat users I need your help. IFTTT have asked us to submit popular recipes. They have seen the increase use of the channels (evohome & SZT) and have offered to...

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Adding Evohome to 25+ year old CH system...

My parents have been so impressed with my evohome system when they visited that they have decided they want it for themselves. # Currently they have a 25+ year old Oil Fired central heating system, no...

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Mounting BDR91

Hi all First time poster here but spent days reading this forum and thanks to everyone who's contributed. I'm thinking of buying the Evohome system. House is three years old and S-Plan. I think I'll be...

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Best/Cheapest way to remote boost of heating?

Evening all, I'm looking for something that I suspect isn't as simple as I hope. We're very efficient with our heating already, all TRV's on minimum in rooms we don't use, heating only turned on when...

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Control of electric heating

Hi all I have moved in to a new flat that has electric heating. Each room has Dimplex electric heats and these are controlled by a Dimplex programer. The heating is split into 2 zones for heating and a...

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New biomass boiler - not sure about controlling it

Hello! This my first post here and I need to ask for advice on heating control for a new biomass system that has just been installed. We have a wood pellet boiler " retrofitted" to an existing radiator...

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Digital Connectivity - Evohome

Following yesterday's Budget announcement can we expect Honeywell to embrace change? Announcement: New funding for “internet of things” technology, which allow computer-controlled devices – such as...

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Evohome - use windows PC?

Hi, I've been reading the "Decoded Evohome API..." thread with great interest. However almost all of it went over my head very quickly. Sign of getting old I think! I know there's no official way, but...

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USB Port and some other questions

I found a USB Port on the left side of the controler. What can I do with it? Is it for a firmware update? Is it possible to update the firmware? Is there a plan of Honeywell to build a website next to...

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Domoticz / Z-Wave / Raspberry Pi

Having researched what is available I think I am going to use Domoticz as my HA platform running on a Ubuntu virtual machine. I was going to use a raspberry PI with either a USB stick or the Razberry...

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Eclipse ..

Thought you might be interested in some external sensory data gathered by Cortex from two of our systems for yesterday's eclipse event :). One system based in Newcastle and the other in Trowbridge....

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Colour codes for wiring BDR91's?

Hi, Apologises if this is a silly question, but Google hasn’t thrown up an answer. I’m preparing to upgrade to an Evohome solution and was wondering if there are any colour coding standards for wiring...

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Comms fault - Hot Water - Actuation

After a month of running perfectly, I started to get erratic comms fault errors in the log on the controller. Although it says "Hot Water", I don't think it is the actual Hot Water BDR91 at all. This...

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Split System Air Conditioning suggestions?

Hi All, Anyone ever done any investigations into split system air conditioners which would lend itself towards Idratek suitability? Thanks in advance, Marcus

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Information to post when asking for help/diagnosis

Sometimes you will see me asking lots of repetitive questions about location of devices, what process was used, pictures showing location etc etc So here goes at capturing the sort of information that...

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HR92 - Sensor/Actuator Test

During a service visit, I think my installer may have got the HR92 priority order wrong in one of my multi HR92 zones. I appreciate that I could just delete the zone and re-build it but I thought that...

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12 HR92 valves for sale, unused, unopened, brand new

I have three boxes of four HR92 radiator valves for sale. Original Honeywell packing note with my home address on it available on request (they are genuine and haven't fallen off the back of a lorry!)....

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Whistling radiators

All of my radiators previously had Myson (Potterton) TRVs. So it is very easy to changeover to the HR92s. What I found is that sometimes the HR92 will almost, very very almost close out one of the...

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Evohome - 2 zone valves plus boiler relay?

Quick question - can the Evohome controller control one CH zone valve, one DHW zone valve and have a boiler relay too (ie: Three BDR91's)? Thanks

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Is it possible to upgrade the firmware in the evohome controller?

In most smart devices (ie those containing a decent microprocessor) it is possible to upgrade the firmware as that is updated over time to include new features. The firmware in the evohome controller...

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