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A Smarter Smart Controller from Homely?

 
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 Toodles
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Topic starter 21/11/2025 2:21 pm  

I received an email from Homely this morning enquiring if I would care to participate as a Beta Tester: ‘Fancy testing a smarter, savvier Homely?’ they said. I’ll let you know how this goes if I am selected in due course. Regards, Toodles.


Toodles, heats his home with cold draughts and cooks food with magnets.


   
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 Papahuhu
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10/12/2025 10:49 pm  

Talking of a smarter homely, I was getting too frequent cycling running in smart mode when OAT got below about 6C, they advised me that it was nothing to do with the homely, but that if I changed to standard mode it might help. I did change and it did help. 
I also can’t see any change in efficiency pre and post mode change, so I’m suspecting the whole efficiency thing is a con and it’s only function is weather compensation with a minimum room temp setpoint. 
Im feeling a little cheated as I could have set the weather comp up myself without all the homely gubbings, indeed less complexity is more when it comes to longevity and reliability. In fact the only benefit is the Wi-Fi connectivity for remote diagnosis as I didn’t have a Wi-Fi module on my control system.



   
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Topic starter 11/12/2025 9:11 am  

@papahuhu I have a feeling that my Homely smart controller is amongst the ‘control group’ rather than running in a new beta test group as I have seen no changes whatsoever as yet. I wonder if the ‘smarter than ever’ version is actually a change to the algorithms that are causing the ‘hot housing’ effects - time will tell. Toodles.


Toodles, heats his home with cold draughts and cooks food with magnets.


   
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