Drayton Wiser Smart Heating Radiator Thermostat Works with Amazon Alexa, Google Home, IFTTT

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As a general observation, in the old days with dumb thermostats, you would often have heating on times and off times.

As a component as with other items on the system I do like the aesthetic compared to other smart systems, others seem to have lots of stupid window dressing on the stats particularly like Hard wood surround options or trying to do everything from one control. In my scenario I would only have iTRV’s on 9 radiators leaving two bathrooms, one cloakroom and a utility room under manual control. The app doesn’t help as I’ve realised you can’t go back more than 3 months - Drayton you need to fix this. Now these things aren’t really necessary for me to plug any gaps in my smart heating network, but they have become an essential part of day to day life in helping me save electricity - particularly for my editing suite - which I could never be bothered to stoop under the table to switch off each night.

With this, you can ensure the baby’s room is at a safe temperature at all times, or the kids’ rooms are warmed up for when they get home from school. And clearly I’m going to have missed stuff here, and immediately it springs to mind that I haven’t found the open window detection to be very good - which is meant to turn off the radiator where a draught is detected, but hasn’t seemed to for me.

However, if you already have a smart thermostat, then you probably already have one of these installed. Now the lack of a convenient user interface is a criticism you sometimes hear about the Drayton Wiser system, which is of course app based. Now, I can achieve a more dynamic balanced system, and when all rooms have met their targets the boiler heating flow shuts off. New: A brand-new, unused, unopened and undamaged item in original retail packaging (where packaging .Millie meanwhile uses it for better information graphs and a better view of how the house reacts to the weather. I'm literally opening the app each time I want to turn the temp up/down on a radiator and manually making the adjustment. My plan was to install Drayton Wiser smart TRV's on nearly all my radiators but now I'm wondering if just having a Wiser room thermostat is the better way to go (and cheaper! Otherwise I'd take the Geek's wisdom with a pinch of salt and especially if you have manual control over the boiler's flow temperature.

It makes life simple and cost-effective if you know, for instance, that you’re only going to be in one room working from home all day, or that you want to get the bedroom cosy before you head up for the night. and they are often like some sort of pebble with no corners I find it all pretty weak think it will date and become . I have a TRV in the Living Room and main stat is the bedroom, with both rooms on the same schedule and target temps, with Eco and Comfort modes set in the app and I find that once the target temp is reached either by the stat or TRV, then I find this leads how the boiler fires. Have been in frequent e-mail contact with Wiser (Schneider) support for over 3 months ref this issue, no real solutions offered, to be fair, I don't really think there is a lot they can do as some Danfoss rad's work and some don't! Likewise even overnight in the lounge, study, etc you would not want the room temp not to drop too far.and maybe that would use less energy later on when its getting to bed time and the boiler needs to get the room fromm 16C up to 21? Even if you have the oldest sort of radiator valves, the ones you turn manually that have little numbers on them that go from ‘Off’ up to ‘Max’, you can turn up and down the heat without having to crouch down and fiddle about. When I started preparing my video and blog I posted a comment on my community tab, and I can’t thank everyone enough who has come back with their experiences of Wiser and other smart heating systems. You’ll need a connecting device to go into your modem so your mobile phone can communicate with the smart valves.

Simply screw off/on existing TRVs and replace with Wiser Radiator Thermostats to expand your current system. The beauty of the room-zoned controls is that you can target the temperature settings if each room precisely based on your regular movements through the house but still easily override when you need too. Bram went with Evohome as it’s a fully functioning stand alone system - albeit without the Insights and a hub interface that some people say needs updating.After calibration which itself seems to sound like the solenoid inside the TRV takes around 10 seconds to close, when the TRV is sent a signal to open, it sounds like the opening only lasts 2 seconds, net result no heat. Its clear that zoning should be used if for example there was a UFH zone and a radiator zone but an all radiator system is not so clear. In a room with a room stat and smart TRV the room stat controls the temperature, thats why you need to position the room stat carefully. It’s compatible with Google Home and Alexa (“Alexa, turn the heat to 21 in the living room”) and can be affixed to 90 per cent of radiators (or you can use its adaptors, which come with the kit), but you do need the Wiser heating system to make it work through the internet.