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Anybody using the Namron thermostat wall plug with a Fibaro controller? I have been trying hard to set it up with my Home Center LIte, and cannot get it to work. Any advice would be welcome. Also, if anybody can recommend any other z-wave products to control electric heaters that would also be of interest.

Hello, I'm new to the forum and I do apologize if this is not the correct location to post this. If incorrect, please move this topic to the correct category. Preamble: I want to use Fibaro to automate heating inside my apartment and create heating zones. The heating source is an apartment boiler which needs to be turned on/off to heat the agent that gets circulated through the heating pipes and radiators. I have the boiler control set up with Fibaro switches and it works very well. I am planning on installing Fibaro Heat Controllers on all radiators to control heating zones, but my problem is knowing when to start the boiler. As an example, for two rooms, Room1 and Room2, if Room1 needs heating, I need to know to turn on the boiler and rely on Room2 heat controller to not allow heating agent in that room's radiator. My question: Do the Heat Controller thermostats have any way of reporting that they need heating or that they're open to circulate heating agent? The direction I'm going with this is to query the thermostats in a scene to determine if they're open and then start the boiler which will pump agent through the whole system. If none of the thermostats are open, then stop the boiler. I cannot keep the boiler running all the time due to expense and strain on the pump. Any thoughts or insights? Thanks

Please help! I am trying to use some inspiration from http://www.fibarouk.co.uk/five-things-to-do-with-your-new-home-center/to regulate my air heather pump, What I want it to do is that when any of my doors has been open for more than 45 sec, turn off the heater and then wait untill all the doors has been closed for 45 sec before turning on again. But unfortionatly i dont get it to work and cant se what the problem is. Sadly i am yet not experienced enought with lua butneed to learn, i now have 80 scenes reulating some 73 switches and sensors. --[[ %% properties 93 value %% globals --]] local Doorfront = 149 -- main door local Doorback = 50 -- Rear door local Doorside = 52 -- Side door local heater = 218 local heatDelay = 45 -- 45 seconds (the value is in seconds) local heatstart = 45 -- 45 seconds (the value is in seconds) -- Only allow one instance of the current scene to run at a time if (fibaro:countScenes() > 1) then fibaro:abort() end local value, timestamp = fibaro:get(Doorfront, 'frontvalue') local value, timestamp = fibaro:get(Doorback, 'backvalue') local value, timestamp = fibaro:get(Doorside, 'sidevalue') local value, timestamp = fibaro:get(Doorfront, 'frontvaluestart') local value, timestamp = fibaro:get(Doorback, 'backvaluestart') local value, timestamp = fibaro:get(Doorside, 'sidevaluestart') if (frontvalue == '0') and (backvalue == '0') and (sidevalue == '0')then -- is the light off? -- the doors are closed -- keep looping until the door has been open for heatDelay time while ((frontvalue ~= '0') or (rearvalue ~= '0') or (sidevalue ~= '0') or ((os.time() - timestamp) < heatDelay)) do fibaro:sleep(1000) -- let other things happen for a second, just wait here value, timestamp = fibaro:get(Doorfront, 'frontvalue') value, timestamp = fibaro:get(Doorback, 'backvalue') value, timestamp = fibaro:get(Doorside, 'sidevalue') end -- the doors has been open long enought fibaro:call(heater, 'turnOff') -- turn off the fan else -- the doors are closed while ((frontvalue = '0') and (rearvalue = '0') and (sidevalue = '0') or ((os.time() - timestamp) < heatstart)) do fibaro:sleep(1000) -- let other things happen for a second, just wait here value, timestamp = fibaro:get(Doorfront, 'frontvaluestart') value, timestamp = fibaro:get(Doorback, 'backvaluestart') value, timestamp = fibaro:get(Doorside, 'sidevaluestart') end fibaro:call(heater, 'turnOn') -- turn on the heater end