I have been doing some further investigation of Opentherm controls for system boilers focused on controlling both Heating and the temperature of a hot water cylinder.
I have been looking for a cheaper solution to the excellent Evo Home and think I might have found it by using a couple of products from EPH that allow you to combine the Opentherm signals from a Room thermostat and a HW cylinder thermostat.
The two devices are a:
CP4i Opentherm Smart Thermostat (with an RF1A-OT control receiver)
CP4-HW-OT Opentherm programmable cylinder thermostat (with an RF1A-OT control receiver)
The two thermostats each come with a RF control boxs that can control a zone valve and be easily wired together to give hot water priority.
The RF control boxes can also be linked by RF so that one of the control boxes can be defined as the Opentherm Hub. The Hub will then send Opentherm commands from both thermostats to a System boiler over just two wires. (further room thermostats can also be added if more heating zones are required - sending its opentherm commands to the defined Hub)
As a bonus a Wifi gateway (GW03) is available that allows all devices to be controlled over the internet if required using the Ember app.
This solution seems to tick all my requirements to fully control a system boiler by Opentherm for:
central heating, cylinder hot water, relays for zone valve control, priority HW and internet access at a very reasonable price.
I am about to give it a go but am interested if anyone else has used these EPH thermostats in a combined Opentherm configuration giving priority hotwater with a a Baxi 600/800 system boiler.
I have been looking for a cheaper solution to the excellent Evo Home and think I might have found it by using a couple of products from EPH that allow you to combine the Opentherm signals from a Room thermostat and a HW cylinder thermostat.
The two devices are a:
CP4i Opentherm Smart Thermostat (with an RF1A-OT control receiver)
CP4-HW-OT Opentherm programmable cylinder thermostat (with an RF1A-OT control receiver)
The two thermostats each come with a RF control boxs that can control a zone valve and be easily wired together to give hot water priority.
The RF control boxes can also be linked by RF so that one of the control boxes can be defined as the Opentherm Hub. The Hub will then send Opentherm commands from both thermostats to a System boiler over just two wires. (further room thermostats can also be added if more heating zones are required - sending its opentherm commands to the defined Hub)
As a bonus a Wifi gateway (GW03) is available that allows all devices to be controlled over the internet if required using the Ember app.
This solution seems to tick all my requirements to fully control a system boiler by Opentherm for:
central heating, cylinder hot water, relays for zone valve control, priority HW and internet access at a very reasonable price.
I am about to give it a go but am interested if anyone else has used these EPH thermostats in a combined Opentherm configuration giving priority hotwater with a a Baxi 600/800 system boiler.