Hi all! Looking to see if anyone had managed to automate a switch similar to this on my boiler
I live in rented accommodation with no other way to switch on the radiators than this singular knob ( no thermostat etc). As it’s rented I can’t expose the wiring or take apart anything
All I would want the mechanism to do is to be able to switch between having just the hot water on and the hot water and radiators on
As the dial only has to rotate roughly 45 degrees I was even thinking whether an ordinary push switch bot may do it?
Really appreciate any thoughts - I’m not overly electronics inclined so if you’re able to go into simple details it would all be incredibly useful Thanks!
Im not aware of an off the shelf solution to this. It could be done with eg a stepper motor and an esp32, though you’d have to mount and power it, somethong along the lines of https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=jRZeUCpfuWY though the movement required would be much simpler. You may be able to use a servo motor, and that would be lighter and easier to mount, and the code could come from a modification of eg https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=fOS5JhFFCOQ
As I said, mounting and power are likely to be the main issues, it is diy doable though.