Draytonby Schneider Electric Multi-Zone Smart Thermostat and 2 Smart Radiator Thermostat Kit - Combination Boilers Only - Heating Control

I've been using this system for about a year now, and I think it's brilliant. I previously trialled the Hive system and there were so many glitches and system crashes that I sent it back, and got this instead, and am so glad I did.I bought this starter kit alongside a separate pack of three additional smart radiator valves, which came to a total of £250 which is incredibly affordable for a whole system allowing smart control across five radiators. The equivalent Hive set up would have been hundreds more.Although the app looks a bit clunky, the functionality is great. It's quite easy to set up schedules across different rooms, and the copy functions make it quite quick. We have two small kids and it's been great for setting up precise schedules for different rooms when they're having their naps, turning our bedroom on for night time and shutting off in the morning, and the reverse for the living room.The actual thermostats are also well designed. The manual boost function by turning the valve is great for easily increasing the heating of a room for an hour when it's cold, and it's been useful having the child lock function on in the kids' rooms so they don't mess about with it. I've also been surprised by the battery life - they've been running for nearly a year, and we haven't changed the batteries once.You also get good insights and can check how the radiators have been responding to changes in temperatures, not that it's useful, but reassuring to know it's working correctly. There are smart modes like eco and comfort, but we found these weren't that useful and made the system behave in unexpected ways, but worth trying out. I'm also not sure how responsive that automatic window open detection is, but it might be doing something.Installation was fairly straightforward. If you can wire a plug, and you're happy with basic DIY like drilling into walls to put up brackets, then you can do this yourself.Overall, I'd definitely recommend this whole set up.

I replaced my Drayton Wireless Thermostat with new ‘Wiser’ Heating Controls. I bought the Kit 1 and subsequently 7 more Wiser TRVs.I was disappointed to find that the Wiser Room Thermostat WiFi signal was too weak to successfully link to the new Hub R (which had directly replaced the old Wireless Thermostat Unit (by the boiler in my loft - which always worked reliably!)The answer was obvious, I had to buy a Wiser Plug ‘extender’ (another £38). Great the system worked.Next I fitted the two Wiser TRVs (from the Kit 1) at the extremes of distance from the Hub R. One Wiser TRV would not pair reliably. Yes - I had to buy yet another Wiser Plug ‘Extender’ and find the optimal position for its location.My house covers 3 floors (top a loft conversion) walls all brick. My extenders are both on 1st floor at opposite ends of the house, and everything now works reliably.I am very impressed with the many features of my Wiser system and in particular the ability for ant TRV to ‘call’ for the boiler to run when it’s room schedule requires heat.The Hub R is linked to my home WiFi and my iPhone has the Wiser Home App downloaded (needed for set up).The App is brilliant and very easy to use and navigate. Too many features to describe here!The system can also use Amazon Alexa and I have even linked Wiser to IFTTT App which now automatically switches the heating off / down when my iPhone is away from home.You can also control everything from the Wiser Home App when anywhere!WISER has exceeded my expectations, except for two things, namely:Poor Wiser WiFi signal strength.No temperature ‘offset’ to correct the true room temperature for the Wiser TRV measured temperature (shown in the Wiser Home App.I would buy again as the overall cost /features compares very well against main competitor systems.

The offers on amazon are for gen 1 equipment. gen 2 has better wifi and a few more features. ended up sending this back and buying a gen 2 system from RS.

I am at home most of the day and need to have some rooms heated but not all of them. I live in an old house that is expensive to heat and hard to insulate. Having done what could be done, I wanted to save further on fuel and began looking at the rooms that were empty all day but were still being heated because the heating was on. The Drayton Wiser system appealed to me because I can set schedules for every room that would benefit and only heat them when they needed to be heated. It was fairly easy to install: my radiators had non-standard TRVs (Thermostatic Radiator Valves) and the smart TRVs would not find and neither would any of the adapters. In the end I drained down my system and swapped the TRVs for some very cheap ones from Toolstation that were compatible with the new smart TRVs, and then I could easily fit the smart TRVs where I needed them. I did the wiring myself - that was trivial.My house is very spread out being a chalet bungalow and I found two of the smart TRVs were about on the limit of the range from the Wiser Hub, so I bought two Wiser Smart Plugs - these are very expensive compared with other Smart Plugs that I use but they also function as an amplifier for the Wiser Hub ensuring that those two zones always get a good signal.I'm not going to write here about all of the benefits of a smart system - if you're looking for a smart system then you'll already know most of those from their advertisements. I looked at several systems including Hive and Nest and felt that the Drayton Wiser system offered the best value for me because of the ease of setting up zones. It has all of the features of the others apart from Nest's ability to not have schedules instead opting to learn what you want by observing how and when you set your heating.Drayton not only had the best match of features for me, but it was the best price, and Drayton have been making heating control systems for donkey's years - they are a household name for heating.The app has some very interesting statistics (graphs) to show you how your heating is performing. It has intelligent modes that can shut off the heating for a room if there's a window open there. It works well with Alexa. With the help of Life360 and IFTTT it is easy to set up geofencing so that if nobody is home it goes into background heating mode and then automatically resumes the schedule when someone arrives back home again.Now on to why I only gave 4 stars when what I've written suggests 5 stars...[a] If there's a power cut, or the internet drops out, then often the hub gets "stuck" and cannot reconnect to the Wiser cloud - it sits there with a red light on. My son-in-law has the same system and also experiences this issue. The heating still continues to work, but you can't work it or monitor it remotely. The fix for this is to turn off the master switch for the heating, thereby shutting down the hub for 2-3 minutes and then turn it on again - but you need to be at home to do that UNLESS: I fitted a smart plug in the power feed to the Wiser hub so (remotely) I can cycle the power on and off. Fortunately, we don't get many internet outages or power cuts.[b] It's quite an investment in time to set up all of the schedules and I change them with the seasons [1] Spring and Autumn, [2] Summer and [3] Winter - I have requested (but had no feedback) that it ought to be simple to have the App store your schedules as a SET so that you could restore each SET as and when you need it.Bottom line: brilliant system but nobody's perfect.

This is really good system and installed in a 1930s bungalow with 13 radiators. Mistakes I made on the first install:Trying to be clever and keep things tidy I initially installed the base unit very near the boiler. This was a mistake as you should put it in as central location as possible in order for it to see your router/TRVs. (and preferably away from large metal white goods that are going to interfere with signals).Naively I assumed that the new smart TRV(thermostatic Radiator Valves) would be compatible with the old lockshield(tap) valve controls. You require compatible thermostatic Radiator valves and I had to install 4 new ones for the planned system. (cheap units are available for around £7 each - and you don’t seem to be able to buy just the valve body). These require the system to be drained and a bit of plumbing work.Good pointsWhile it takes a while to get used to the philosophy behind the new control, its great being able to switch individual radiators off. We have noticed that the system heats up so much faster and each radiator gets hotter.I’ve found the app very intuitive and relatively clear.The integration with Alexa is seamless and brilliant.The thermostat is very accurate and the TRVs accurate enough.You have the option for the system to switch on at fixed times (normal mode) or to be clever and use ambient temperature to determine start times (comfort mode)Bad points.Sometimes it takes a while for the boiler to be requested to fire despite the indication of Flame ON displayed on the app.An indication of the position/status of each TRV would be useful.It would be nice if the thermostat was non-backlit LCD with the display on all the time rather than having to wake it up to display the current temperature. I also assume that only the thermostat temperature is used in its assigned room rather than the associated rooms TRV – does the system just ignore the TRV temp?. (I also wonder if you can have a cheaper system without the thermostat as I’m not sure it adds much.)Things that still confuse:The app has too many ways to change room temperature. E.g• There is a boost function which has a time limit. (also enabled from the TRVs control). Does enabling from one radiator automatically apply the same boost to others assigned to the same room?• You can also change the room temperature without the boost time limit.• You can also set the room to MANUAL (shown as a HAND on the app) control.I’m still unsure if ALL or any of these settings are automatically overridden by a scheduled temperature change?Word of warning for those with an older system. I had planned to smart control just 4 of 13 radiators in rooms only used part time. I did this but noticed how much warmer the whole house was. The problem being that 6 radiators/towel rails in my house do not have TRVs (just lockshield taps). The living areas would get up to temperature with bedrooms ‘smart controlled’ off, then prior to bed these would switch on but request the boiler ON for prolong periods to get them up to temperature. However, obviously the 6 radiators/towel rail with lockshield valves would then get very hot in rooms already up to temperature. So I’m now having to convert these to TRVs or smart. In summary – your house requires TRVs!This is a very good system and I’m not entirely sure what features are missing or that you’d ever need. Only concern is the longevity of the motorised TRVs at £40 a pop.