Wondering if anybody has had any experience with this whirlpool 50 gallon 12 year regular electric water heater works with iris from lowes.
Smartthings water heater control.
I connected this device to a water heater in my vacation home.
Moved out of my house and no longer own the product.
I see so many reviews mostly of 1 or 2.
This idea was borrowed from one of the st gurus in here but i can t remember who so i.
I connected to my home network and can see the heater controller on my network.
It is located about 10 from my smartthings hub.
The energysmart water heater controller is a device which automates the operation of energysmart water heater models.
I bought and installed this device on my new water heater that was also installed today.
In the market for a new water heater.
I have a control r controller for my rinnai tankless water heater that controls my recirculation pump temp etc.
I control it on my smart phone.
It switches once but them hangs up until toggled twice.
Taking a break from home automation until i buy my own house again.
It appears there are a few options on the market at the moment from rheem and whirlpool.
Source code is out there for people who wants to learn.
Lowe s is a large retailer that has like amazon made a foray into the home automation niche.
Load rheem econet service manager in smartapp section.
I have a smart connected water heater that is compatible with ifttt but not st.
As part of the process of trying to get the rheem wifi modual for their water heater up and running including a lengthy e mail conversation i specifically asked them about this and all they said is that the people at smartthings had contacted rheem about it but that nothing has been done about it yet and they have no plans to do so in the future not that they are planning on not.
Considering these cost 500 to 700 a year to operate i m looking into smartening up my purchase to save a bit of money.
I opened my smartthings app and searched for devices nothing new was found.
My question is the article says the rinnai water heaters are.
I have modified a garage door dth that functions basically to change modes utilizing a couple webcore pistons but i am having an issue with the toggle function in the dth.
From ide navigate to my smartapps new smartapp from code.
Control r module and according to this article they are now integrated with smartthings smartthings water heater category this is awesome as i will now be able to really fine tune the times when the recirc pump runs.
Click publish for me load rheem econet water heater in.
I tried to add manually and the heater controller is not listed.
It was hooked up by my regular electrician in about 15 minutes.
Simply said it worked.
It worked first time and has worked every time.
Energysmart electric plastic water heater controller.
