Over the summer I will be upgrading my system but I am trying to find a programmer that will suit my shift patterns.

As I work at different shifts over a three week rosta I want a programmer where I can preset the timings for week 1,2 & 3 so I can select which week I'm on at a press of a button.

All of the ones I have found just have the standard 7 day 5+2 day programes which I have now.

Do any of you people in the trade know of a programmer that will suit my requirements.

On 13/02/2013 13:53, Trevor Smith wrote:

If not commercially available then seems like a good choice for
something like an Arduino?

Some programmable thermostats have a "days off" function that might do
at a pinch.

Lee

On 13/02/2013 13:53, Trevor Smith wrote:
Over the summer I will be upgrading my system but I am trying to find
a programmer that will suit my shift patterns.

As I work at different shifts over a three week rosta I want a
programmer where I can preset the timings for week 1,2 & 3 so I can
select which week I'm on at a press of a button.

All of the ones I have found just have the standard 7 day 5+2 day
programes which I have now.

Do any of you people in the trade know of a programmer that will suit
my requirements.

A crude solution would be three programmes wired in parallel, with a
switch to select which is in charge!


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A crude solution would be three programmes wired in parallel, with a

switch to select which is in charge!





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I had thought of something similar, as the programmers have battery backup and clip on a baseplate get three and set each for a given week and just swop them over but that will work out an expensive option.

Thanks anyway

On Wed, 13 Feb 2013 05:53:20 -0800 (PST), Trevor Smith wrote:

As I work at different shifts over a three week rosta I want a
programmer where I can preset the timings for week 1,2 & 3 so I can
select which week I'm on at a press of a button.

I can't say I've ever come across anything like that for the domestic
market, all 1, 7 or 5+2 day jobbies.

What you might be able to find is an industrial timer/programmer that
will do n events per day for a year. The sort of thing that controls the
flashing lights for schools so they don't come on during the holidays.

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In article ,
Trevor Smith writes:
Over the summer I will be upgrading my system but I am trying to find a programmer that will suit my shift patterns.

As I work at different shifts over a three week rosta I want a programmer where I can preset the timings for week 1,2 & 3 so I can select which week I'm on at a press of a button.

All of the ones I have found just have the standard 7 day 5+2 day programes which I have now.

Do any of you people in the trade know of a programmer that will suit my requirements.

I took my new prototype Raspberry Pi based heating controller along
to the Reading Geek Night last night, but it's not ready for use yet.
I have two other households in the family who want heating controllers
like the ones I did 13 years ago, and Raspberry Pi based seemed like
the way to go nowadays, rather than a PC. (It's more powerful than
the 120MHz Pentiums I originally used, and even they were overkill.)

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On 13/02/2013 17:22, Andrew Gabriel wrote:
In article ,
Trevor Smith writes:
Over the summer I will be upgrading my system but I am trying to find a programmer that will suit my shift patterns.

As I work at different shifts over a three week rosta I want a programmer where I can preset the timings for week 1,2 & 3 so I can select which week I'm on at a press of a button.

All of the ones I have found just have the standard 7 day 5+2 day programes which I have now.

Do any of you people in the trade know of a programmer that will suit my requirements.

I took my new prototype Raspberry Pi based heating controller along
to the Reading Geek Night last night, but it's not ready for use yet.
I have two other households in the family who want heating controllers
like the ones I did 13 years ago, and Raspberry Pi based seemed like
the way to go nowadays, rather than a PC. (It's more powerful than
the 120MHz Pentiums I originally used, and even they were overkill.)

Were you ultimately planning to have it talk to the serial bus equipped
boilers that sport some variant of a two wire interface?


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In article ,
John Rumm writes:
On 13/02/2013 17:22, Andrew Gabriel wrote:
In article ,
Trevor Smith writes:
Over the summer I will be upgrading my system but I am trying to find a programmer that will suit my shift patterns.

As I work at different shifts over a three week rosta I want a programmer where I can preset the timings for week 1,2 & 3 so I can select which week I'm on at a press of a button.

All of the ones I have found just have the standard 7 day 5+2 day programes which I have now.

Do any of you people in the trade know of a programmer that will suit my requirements.

I took my new prototype Raspberry Pi based heating controller along
to the Reading Geek Night last night, but it's not ready for use yet.
I have two other households in the family who want heating controllers
like the ones I did 13 years ago, and Raspberry Pi based seemed like
the way to go nowadays, rather than a PC. (It's more powerful than
the 120MHz Pentiums I originally used, and even they were overkill.)

Were you ultimately planning to have it talk to the serial bus equipped
boilers that sport some variant of a two wire interface?

Since none of the boilers I control (or plan to control) have this,
it's not a priority. Once you've got good heating control, it doesn't
seem to pay to replace an old boiler just on economy grounds.

I haven't looked at opentherm yet, but I will when it comes to boiler
replacement, and that's probably on the cards for the oldest in the
next year.

Actually, one thing I need to find is a source/supplier of room
thermostats which are actually just potentiometers, but look like
the real thing. I have been using Satchwell DRT3451, but these
were really for a range of long-obsolete fanfoil aircon units,
and all sources have dried up. I haven't been able to find anything
else yet. Obviously, I can make up a box with a knob on it, but
it won't look as good as a real molded/contoured one professionally
marked up.

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