Hello everyone,
[Preamble]
I bought my house 15 years ago. It was heated with atherno electric radiators (already not so young) that could be controlled remotely with consoles from the same brand. The console included a temperature sensor, allowed setting a temperature setpoint, and activating/deactivating the regulation around this setpoint. Life went on, the consoles one after the other gave up the ghost. I contacted the manufacturer, re-editing old consoles cost an arm and a leg. I tried to hack the consoles/receivers but the protocol was proprietary and the microprocessors too old (compiler to configure, …). I ended up gutting everything and only keeping the heating body (resistance/refractory stone) and its electrical safety system. I had beautiful on/off radiators.
[Home Automation]
To regain comfort through temperature regulation and to reduce my electricity bill, I sought to automate my radiators.
Out of the question to remove cables throughout the house, so I needed a wireless solution. And as my house is large and old (the walls are thick), the low-cost and traditional solutions at 400~800kHz were not suitable. I searched/tested z-wave, xbee implementations or even DIY with mysensors.org. And it was finally on the SonOff TH modules that I settled three years ago: a sensor, a relay, wifi communication with a known processor => everything I needed for regulation.
After some « difficulties » and questions about the manufacturer’s firmware (which joyfully sent my data to its servers), I found the Tasmota firmware which met two of my needs:
- a local regulation solution thanks to a script system (to decentralize regulation and be robust to frequent communication losses)
- a simple and autonomous interface to control/configure the heating directly/fine-tuned.
[Start of the Gladys adventure]
Until very recently, I was using OpenHab to try to manage my electric radiators. It was a gas plant especially for the management of mqtt installations. And updates were not without impact. I spent more time maintaining and fine-tuning my system than simply enjoying it.
Recently I read an article on Korben’s blog that mentioned switching to a version 4 of a home automation system Gladys. A quick look at the site and the documentation allowed me to see that it managed my sonoff modules (at least in part) and mqtt.
I downloaded Gladys v4, I installed it on a raspberry pi that was lying around (in fact the one that hosted openhab 
), I did a scan of my radiators, I quickly updated my dashboard and created two basic scenes to make a hysteresis!
In short, in less than an hour I had a functional home automation system: well done guys! 
Now I am going to try to finely master my system and keep you informed of my adaptations/remarks.
Next project to communicate in mqtt with the radiators script (send the setpoint values and on/off of the regulation).
see you 
