{"id":696,"date":"2021-09-08T12:55:34","date_gmt":"2021-09-08T12:55:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.creatingsmarthome.com\/?p=696"},"modified":"2021-10-08T14:08:13","modified_gmt":"2021-10-08T14:08:13","slug":"upgrading-floor-heating-using-heatit-v3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.creatingsmarthome.com\/index.php\/2021\/09\/08\/upgrading-floor-heating-using-heatit-v3\/","title":{"rendered":"Upgrading floor heating using HeatIt V3"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

When we renovated the house almost three years ago, I installed electric floor heating to all of my four bedrooms. Since then I’ve been using HeatIt Z-Wave thermostats<\/a> on those rooms. I’ve been very pleased with the stability and features of those, but recently Home Assistant introduced a new energy management panel<\/a> and I thought it would be nice to measure electricity I’m using for my heating..<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Comparison between HeatIt thermostat v1 and v3<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Old HeatIt thermostats has been great, but are lacking the feature of energy measurement. The new ones (v3) are more feature rich that includes consumption along with some other minor upgrades. The ‘biggest’ thing that v3 does not have is the ‘eco’ heating. In previous version you could activate eco mode that drops the temperature to specified value. However, that can easily be done in the Z-Wave Hub (Home Assistant in my case) so that’s not a real issue.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Both versions conforms the Z-Wave Plus standard and provides climate control along with floor, air and optional external temperature sensors. They also act as a router on existing Z-Wave network to provide more range for the mesh.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One issue existing on both versions: Air Temperature is not accurate enough. When ever then Thermostat is heating, the thermostat display itself generates some heat and rises the air temperature around it near two degrees. So unfortunately it can’t replace existing air temperature sensors in my rooms.<\/p>\n\n\n\n