Installation of the Drayton Wiser Heat Hub, which is the main control unit of the system, was so much easier than I expected. Drayton are using an industry standard backplate – the same as is used for the Hive controller, so there were plenty of resources online to help me – as well as the
When we moved into our new house, it came with one hand-written instruction for the heating: “Press the button for heat” That was it. No thermostat, no timer, just a binary switch. During the summer this was fine, but heading into winter and with cold mornings this wasn’t going to work for us. I spent
The DS18b20 is a great temperature sensor. It seems to be fairly accurate, comes in a small package and uses a one-wire protocol which means you can daisy chain multiple sensors together. There’s plenty of information about the one-wire protocol and how to run them in parasite mode elsewhere on the internet, so I won’t
How to configure the Rasperry Pi Zero and OpenHAB 1.8.1 Setting up the Pi Download Raspian Jessie from here. I used the lite version as it’s quicker to boot and we can do all the needed config via SSH Use Win32DiskImager to burn the image to your SD Card. Full details on the Raspberry Pi site. Boot
