Re: HouseHeat

["Kevin Hawkins" <yahoogroupskh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Interesting Martyn - keep us posted..

I am going to get a couple of HouseHeat parts just to play I think ,
although at the moment I'm dithering between HouseHeat and Hometronic for
my system.

I was in a brief dialog with someone at HouseHeat but a lot of the replies
were 'I'll get back to you / that information isn't available' so it's good
to know you're making progress.  The main one I was trying to ascertain the
differences in the various USB interfaces, have you any info on this ?

A xAP connector would be great, and help people integrate HouseHeat with
most of the leading HA software applications.  Once I get my parts I'll be
happy to be a beta tester, or offer any help that I can...

Cheers Kevin

--- In xap_automation@xxxxxxx, "Martyn Wendon"
<martynwendon@...> wrote:
>
> Did anybody here end up trying out any HouseHeat products
> (http://www.house-intelligence.co.uk/)?
>
> A couple of months back I got a single Thermostat Control and Rad
Actuator
> and was pretty impressed with it.
>
> I'm now up to 4 Thermostat Controls / Rad Actuators and have just
received
> the PC Connect hardware (FHZ1300PC) which allows control from a PC.
>
> The supplied software is pretty cr*p so I've been investigating
> alternatives, which are pretty thin on the ground.  There's a DLL
available
> for developing your own but it relies on the original software being
> installed which the DLL then "controls" via Windows API
calls.....pretty
> cr*p too!!
>
>
> Happily though I've discovered http://www.koeniglich.de/fhem/fhem.html
which
> I've managed to get working with the hardware.  FHEM is a pretty basic
piece
> of HA software, but it seems to work very well with the FHZ hardware
and
> allows full control / event reporting of the Thermostat Controls, not
to
> mention many other bits of kit that use the FHZ protocol.
>
> There's a TCP/IP interface available to FHEM so I'm going to code up a
xAP
> or xPL gateway to it, which should open the HouseHeat stuff being
> controllable from a whole host of other software.
>
>
> Cheers,
>
> Martyn
>




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