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Hi all.
This is a question about internet controls for a replacement combi boiler in my own house.
My existing ancient combi boiler is sited in an unheated utility room, next to an unheated kitchen, with an unheater stairwell through the wall behind it. The bathroom above has tiled floors that I would hate to rip up. It's very hard to see how to get wires from the boiler to a room thermostat in a part of the house that is actually heated.
The existing boiler has been declared unrepairable (no parts) so I'm planning to replace it with a Worcester-Bosch 34CDi or similar. I want internet controls, and I like the functionality of the Worcester Wave internet control system, which can get outside temperature information from the Net and use it to reduce the water temperature and supposedly improve efficiency.
However, it seems that the Worcester Wave needs a 2-wire connection from the boiler to the thermostat/controller. This is crazy - dispensing with wires is what WiFi is for, after all. But I can't see how to get wires through (and I don't want to try to cut channels for them in 17th-century brickwork). So are there systems that offer internet control where the connections from hub to boiler and hub to thermostat are both WiFi, and if so what's the best one?
The BG Hive might do it, but BG's quote is 50% higher than ones from independent installers - and since the price of the boiler is fixed, that's a factor of 2 on costs for installation/powerflush. Nest? Evohome? Heat Genius? It's really hard to work out exactly what wires are required from online literature.
Thanks all.
This is a question about internet controls for a replacement combi boiler in my own house.
My existing ancient combi boiler is sited in an unheated utility room, next to an unheated kitchen, with an unheater stairwell through the wall behind it. The bathroom above has tiled floors that I would hate to rip up. It's very hard to see how to get wires from the boiler to a room thermostat in a part of the house that is actually heated.
The existing boiler has been declared unrepairable (no parts) so I'm planning to replace it with a Worcester-Bosch 34CDi or similar. I want internet controls, and I like the functionality of the Worcester Wave internet control system, which can get outside temperature information from the Net and use it to reduce the water temperature and supposedly improve efficiency.
However, it seems that the Worcester Wave needs a 2-wire connection from the boiler to the thermostat/controller. This is crazy - dispensing with wires is what WiFi is for, after all. But I can't see how to get wires through (and I don't want to try to cut channels for them in 17th-century brickwork). So are there systems that offer internet control where the connections from hub to boiler and hub to thermostat are both WiFi, and if so what's the best one?
The BG Hive might do it, but BG's quote is 50% higher than ones from independent installers - and since the price of the boiler is fixed, that's a factor of 2 on costs for installation/powerflush. Nest? Evohome? Heat Genius? It's really hard to work out exactly what wires are required from online literature.
Thanks all.
