Hi Daniel, * Daniel Pocock [2018-01-22 10:20:35 +0100]:
There are government grants in Ireland for heating controls, I put more details on my blog[1].
I read you blog post and the Heating Controls Grant page https://www.seai.ie/grants/home-grants/better-energy-homes/heating-upgrade-grants/ good luck for your grant!
Is anybody aware of technology for this purpose that is running free software and interfaces with free/open standards?
ouch! standards in home automation... good luck :-S I'm definitely not an expert in this matter but I'm hacking since 2016 in my spare time home automation systems are composed by a controller and a set of sensors/actuators, I want a _full_stack_free_sofware_ solution in my home, including actuators and sensors an interesting source of info is https://www.mysensors.org/, see https://www.mysensors.org/about/components for an introduction on the infrastructure unfortunately many actuators/sensors comes with proprietary software installed and no way to replace it with a free one https://home-assistant.io/ is one of the major free software home automation controllers and is able to interface to **a lot** of components (sensors and actuators) on the market: https://home-assistant.io/components/, climate including https://home-assistant.io/components/#climateone of the components is the Generic Thermostat https://home-assistant.io/components/climate.generic_thermostat/
you could use to tunr on/off your zone heating system based on the temperature reported from a sensor from the same zone... this obviously works only if you have one heating system for each zone (rare case, I guess) in my home (Italy) I have a central heating system and each radiator is controlled by a manual valve, I'm still searching a way to interface a controller (i.e. home-assistant) whith **free software** remotely controlled radiator valves; this is an example of the current results: https://duckduckgo.com/?q=home+assistant+radiator+valve&t=ffsb&ia=web
Can this be achieved using a custom solution with Raspberry Pi or similar devices running free software?
the problem is the "devices" (aka actuators, like radiator valves for example) part of the infrastructure: I'm not aware of a free software operated one ciao Giovanni
1. https://danielpocock.com/keeping-an-irish-home-warm-and-free
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