Many smart options: Smart heating controller control

A networked heating control system ensures greater comfort and measurable energy savings. With intelligent sensors and individual schedules, the heating output automatically adjusts to your actual needs. You can then conveniently control your heating system via an app while on the move or integrate the control system into your smart home. You can then add both temperature and humidity sensors or integrate a window sensor, for example.

More efficient ventilation

The Shelly BLU TRV is best used as a smart heating controller. If your heating controller can be controlled smartly, you have the option of setting up networked scenes. We explain how to do this below. The following example scenario makes ventilation particularly efficient: you specify in the Shelly Smart Control app that the heating in the bathroom should be switched off if the Shelly BLU Door/Window window sensor in the same room reports that ventilation is in progress. The BLU TRV obeys and automatically reduces the heating system when the window opens. This means that your heating control runs particularly efficiently and no heat is wasted.

Greater living comfort and better mold prevention

The Optimum Temperature varies depending on the room. While a pleasantly warm 20 to 22 degrees is usually preferred in the living room, a cooler 16 to 18 degrees is often sufficient in the bedroom. Humidity also plays a decisive role, as it influences the indoor climate and mold growth. If the air is too dry or too humid, even the ideal temperature can be perceived as uncomfortable. For living comfort and mold prevention, you couple your heating controllers with Shelly H&T Gen3 or BLU H&T temperature and humidity sensors. They precisely record the current values and automatically adjust the heating output based on the scene you have previously defined.

Automatic schedules of the heating system

How easy is it to adapt the heating times to your daily routine? With Shelly: super easy. In the Shelly Control app, you can set the heating to be turned up in the morning before you get up, for example, and automatically turned down as soon as everyone leaves the house. In the evening, the heating system welcomes you back to your comfort temperature. This prevents unnecessary heating and saves energy and costs. The only thing you need to do is create the scene in the app beforehand.

Temperature adjustment via voice assistant

Of course, you can also control your heating system directly - there are various ways to do this. You can control your heating controller in the smart home from the Shelly Control app or with a linked voice assistant. "Alexa, set the heating to 22 degrees" is enough for the helpful assistant to turn up the temperature for you. Alternatively, you can use the Shelly Wall Display + H&T to set the heating system to a comfortable temperature. It measures how warm and humid it is in the room and automatically adjusts the output according to the stored scenes. Of course, you can also control the heating controllers in your smart home directly via the Wall Display. You always have the temperature and humidity directly in view.

Smart thermostat for radiators

Now that you are aware of the numerous possibilities, we don't want to leave you in the dark about how you can make your heating smart. Converting radiators is particularly easy: to be able to control the heating controller smartly, you can simply replace your analog radiator thermostat with a networked model. To do this, unscrew the old controller and replace it with a smart heating controller, such as the Shelly BLU TRV. It networks every conventional radiator and allows you to integrate it into your smart home - because it comes with the Shelly Gateway Gen3.

Networked control of the underfloor heating

If you want to heat your home to a comfortable temperature using underfloor heating instead of radiators, you don't have to do without intelligent heating. Shelly has simple solutions for this too. For example, the BLU TRV plus Gateway Gen3, which is also connected directly to the heating system, is suitable. Either the Shelly 1 Gen3 actuator or the Shelly 1 Mini Gen3 is used to control the heating system motor - depending on how many amps are supported. The analog thermostat of the underfloor heating system can simply be replaced by the Shelly Wall Display - and control is automatic, via app or voice assistant.

E-heating in the smart home

Smart control also makes sense for electric heating. After all, it consumes a relatively large amount of electricity. Intelligent heating control makes it easy to save energy. A Wi-Fi socket such as Shelly Plug S Gen3 is used for networking. They enable smart control of the connected devices via WLAN. You can then define that the heating only comes on when it gets colder than 18 degrees in the room during the day, for example. To do this, the smart socket must of course communicate with a corresponding sensor, such as the Shelly H&T Gen3. If the room in question is used as a home office, the heating only heats during working hours.

Control energy management in the smart home

With the help of Shelly Solutions, you can efficiently control and optimize energy consumption in the entire household. For example, you could always switch on the electric heating when the solar system is producing a lot of electricity or manage the hot water preparation on a time-controlled basis. Networking an electric heating system also makes sense in combination with dynamic electricity tariffs. Energy-intensive processes such as the operation of the electric heating can then be shifted to favorable times.

Heating control with the Shelly Smart Control app

Let's assume we want to set up temperature-controlled automation in the Shelly Smart Control app and use a Shelly H&T Gen3 and the Shelly BLU TRV thermostat. The two devices are first added to the app and connected within a scene. To do this, simply create a new scene and define the trigger under "If". This condition could be that the H&T Gen3 measures a temperature of less than 20 degrees in the living room. The "Then" condition would be that the Shelly BLU TRV switches on the heating. Conversely, a temperature of more than 24 degrees could trigger the heating to switch off automatically.