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

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.

I took the plunge in to smart heating and considered the pros and cons of a few systems but this ticked all the boxes at a price that was affordable and I'm glad that I opted for the Drayton kit over the others. It was a breeze to install and configure through the app (I had an existing Drayton controller that I simply lifted off from the bracket and slotted the Wiser hub in its place). Although I have a small flat, for the first few weeks it couldn't keep a consistent connection to my router which was situated only a few metres away behind a wall but I now believe it was an issue with the router as it became clear that my other smart devices were dropping off randomly - router was replaced and have enjoyed months without a single drop-out. I love that it offers a comfort mode meaning that you set a room schedule and it learns how far in advance to begin heating to reach the desired temperature before the scheduled on time - I just set a schedule and forget about it - and I love that the bathroom is always cozy ready for my morning shower without having to remember to turn up the thermostat at night. Also a bonus that it has an eco mode so it learns when to stop heating before the scheduled off time. The valves themselves were simplicity itself to install and didn't need the adapter for my radiators - simply unscrewed the existing TRV's, screwed the Wiser ones in place and the app found each straight away, and they make very little noise. The app itself is great but it's a faff setting it up for geofencing as you need to install 3rd-party apps to make it work and have Away Mode activated when you leave the house, but once set up I just forget about it. Alexa integration is good but could be better - I can use my voice to check and control the heat in individual rooms but have yet to find a way to have the heating off everywhere without manually turning on Away Mode in the app. Overall though, I'd highly recommend this system for anyone considering a smart home heating system that can control heating per room and that doesn't tie you in to a subscription for basic functions (like geofencing).

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.

After spending ages trying to decide which smart heating control system to buy, I finally settled on this (to control heating only). It was a good choice. Our LPG combi boiler (water and heating) had an old wired controller attached to the boiler itself which would only allow 3 settings per day. Our system also did not have a thermostat at all. Therefore, whenever it was timed to come on, it just burned away at max heat in every room for the duration it was set for. With this system, I purchased smart rad thermostats for the 4 bedroom radiators and for the second living room radiator (the main thermostat is in the main living room). I now have full control of when the system comes on and off, and I can shut down the peripheral rooms I do not want to heat, whilst keeping the core of the house heated. Overall, very happy with purchase. I got a plumber to install the box (I am not messing with wires), whilst I added the smart rad thermostat controllers (very easy to do; takes about 5 min). App is very easy to use and allows full insight into how the different rooms heat/lose heat. Hours of fun. Was also impressed that after a power cut, the system just set itself back up afterwards. Batteries in smart rad controls last about a year, and you are given a warning when they are running low.

First 3/4 years.Great way of keeping ontop of heating. Easy to use , convenient. Fast forward a few years. Nothing but connections issues. App opens. But all my radiators, devices dissappear, nothing shows up . Then a connection error appears. NOT ACCEPTABLE, especially when its snowing, or freezing. As you cannot access your heating at all. Tried getting intouch with the help team. You get a email reply a week or two later, afeter the app sorts itself out. The help i was given was nothing to do with the problem. This used to be very convenient and easy to use, but now its is unreliable and expensive bit of kit. Im going to get rid of the lot and go back to original system, when i can afford to.

After being advised to get a Honeywell EvoHome system, I researched all options. The Honeywell system is very nice and gets good reviews, but so does the Drayton at way less than half the price, and can control more zones. It's a challenge to work out the components of the Honeywell system, and many are not available through Amazon now. I wanted Alexa control, OpenTherm (though not using it yet), room thermostat and 6 radiator valve heads. The cost for the Honeywell system was about £1050, and the Drayton was £382, BUT on Black Friday I paid £274! It costs more than that just for the Honeywell controller! Everything is easy to install, the hub comes with the industry standard backplate and cost me less than £50 to replace the old non-standard one; if your system has a standard backplate, you don't need a plumber or electrician for any of this! Download the Drayton Wiser app, connect the hub, press the setup button, connect to your network, done. Add the room thermostat, which is simple AND if it is assigned to the same room as radiator thermostats the room thermostat overrides, which makes sense as the temperature near the radiator is warmer. The radiator thermostats are simple too, connect to network, assign it to a room, allow it to calibrate itself, finished. BUT, be prepared to spend time adjusting the temperature to get it to what feels comfortable where you are in the room, OR buy a room thermostat for every room; I didn't. The app is clean and simple and provides some useful analytics that show what you have set the temperature to, and what it achieves by when; there's an eco mode that predicts when it's getting near temperature and shuts off a bit before, as the water is still hotter for a while; there's a comfort mode that will switch on early to achieve the set temperature for the time you set. If you're a geek, they provide an API so you can write or download programs to extract data and control the system. So, what's the benefit of spending the money? Before, like many, I had a wall mounted room thermostat that turned the boiler on/off, and manual thermostatic radiator valve heads to adjust the temperature in other rooms. The downside of this are many:- I don't sit by the wall thermostat, and I now know it's actually 5C warmer there than where I sit! The boiler was set at a temperature and was on unless the room thermostat or timer was off. Now, it can come on just to provide heat for the bedroom and bathroom a little before I get up, then mainly the lounge where I am most of the time, and the back bedroom which I don't use gets a low level of heat at times when the other rooms are up to temperature i.e. a flexible dynamic system. OpenTherm takes it a stage further and adjusts the boiler water temperature depending on what is required when, saving more energy.

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 have a Worcester 29CDi Classic Combi, and I had a standard local heating engineer, and an electrician who could not figure out how to wire the thing. If you don't know somebody who can competently figure it out, then the pro installation from Amazon or Drayton trained affiliates is definitely worth paying for. Once running, it works perfectly. Two bedroom quite large flat... no extenders, about half wifi bars for each head. Not bad at all. Ipad or android equally good app. Basically it does everything very well, with no fuss. Downsides... the noise. There is the motor which could wake you up if radiator is near the bed, and then because it opens up the valves all the way, there is a rushing noise from the water into the radiator. I am getting used to it, but is worth considering. Also the included thermostat is not very useful at all... as it cannot control all radiators... just one zone (overriding the radiator head in that room). Personally, I find the app the best way by far, so have used Ipads off the bay in each room, and then boost them with the heads if required. Very useful, and there's no going back!