Acknowledged boiling control
Posted: Thursday 02 August 2018 21:39
Hello,
I am looking for a solution to automate my hot water boilers. The boilers are conventional Stiebel Eltron boilers that heat water for the showers and the sinks. For other parts of my smart home I use Sonoffs flashed with espruna firmware and mqtt as protocol. The problem is that I want the boilers to run only during the night because the electricity is 2 times cheaper and I am afraid that some night the boilers might not turn on and neither I nor domoticz would know it.
By specification mqtt has an option for acknowledging messages or in other words when domoticz says to the sonoff “turn on” the sonoff will return a message saying “I am on”.
Can you suggest me a way of doing this, so I can be 100% sure that my boilers will turn on on schedule?
I am looking for a solution to automate my hot water boilers. The boilers are conventional Stiebel Eltron boilers that heat water for the showers and the sinks. For other parts of my smart home I use Sonoffs flashed with espruna firmware and mqtt as protocol. The problem is that I want the boilers to run only during the night because the electricity is 2 times cheaper and I am afraid that some night the boilers might not turn on and neither I nor domoticz would know it.
By specification mqtt has an option for acknowledging messages or in other words when domoticz says to the sonoff “turn on” the sonoff will return a message saying “I am on”.
Can you suggest me a way of doing this, so I can be 100% sure that my boilers will turn on on schedule?