Hi,
We're in a house which has underfloor throughout the ground floor and standard rads on the 1st and 2nd floors with a Baxi combi boiler and Salus 'wiring centre'. We have a total of 5 dial/analogue thermostats (4 downstairs to control each room, one on the 1st floor (to miraculously control 1st and 2nd floor rads)).
We're looking to replace the thermostats so that we have programmable control. Obviously the simplest thing is to replace with 5 x programmable thermostats but - as well as all we've seen being ugly as sin - we want to make sure we're not missing a trick by not going for (at least some) smart options.
Having looked around online at the big names (Hive etc), I can't understand why - with our set up - we'd need the hub and other ancillaries. In an ideal world, I'd like to replace the thermostats with programmable thermostats that have WiFi support so that they can be programmed (and overridden if necessary) from an iOS app which simply contains 5 rooms/zones. I think I've found some thermostats like this online around the £35 mark, but they have pretty poor reviews. Alternatively, I wondered if there was such a thing as replacing all the thermostats with room sensors and then having all control via an app or a dedicated piece of kit?
Any suggestions, thoughts or input?
Thank you!