Evohome Day 2
/Today I completed the installation of the Evohome system. The system comes with two remote controlled relays, one for hot water and the other for heating. There’s also a remote temperature transmitter which you attach to your hot water tank. Once I’d done the wiring I had to take the controller unit around to each device and “bind” them together. This was slightly hampered by the fact that the controller has horrible battery life. The good news is that once I’d got the system installed I could then use an iPhone app to mange everything.
It’s been quite a pain free experience. These are my takeaways so far:
everything works and looks to be well made (in the UK, which is amazing)
the documentation is OK, but it glosses over some bits more than it should. However, once you get into the swing of how it works its fine
the controller is very “last generation” with its resistive touch screen and Nmih batteries. However, the user interface itself is fine and seems to have been designed to make it easy to control your heating system, which is nice
the radiator valves are a bit noisy when a little DC motor opens and closes them, but I think we’ll get used to this
I’ve not tried any of the fancy remote controlled features, but at this point I’m well pleased with how well everything works.
