RE: 'Inteligent' Heating Control

["Mark Harrison (Groups)" <mph@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, 2005-10-24 at 17:37 +0100, Ian Lowe wrote:
>
> PS> are you not supposed to get tarred and feathered for suggesting
a
> *simpler* way to do something on ukha??? Hell I thought I was skating
> on
> thin ice because my solution didn't need a dedicated recycled sparc
> station!
> ;)

Infidel. Another 500 years in purgatory for YOU, Mr Lowe.

My very first web-based lighting controller used a recycled "pizza
box"
SPARC station, more because it was sitting around spare than it was the
best hardware for the job, though :-)

I have a good friend who goes to the US CEDIA show each year - one of
the things he told me about a couple of years ago was the newer US
heating algorithms that use neural nets to predict HVAC requirements
based on occupancy sensing, internal and external feeds, and "make it
hotter / make it cooler" directives from controllers. Apparently,
these
things take a few weeks to settle down, but after that give a rather
nice lived-in feel to the house.

The only heating control I've done is for clients with second homes, and
gives remote-on of the heating by phone a day before they turn up. (X10
relay in series with the thermostat, plus a second thermostat in
parallel for frost-break.)

M.