DevThrottleIn use. Home heating
WarmForward
Find out which room costs the most to heat. Your Warmboard radiant floor on any phone, with no new hardware.
- Type
- Web app, on any phone
- Status
- Runs for its users
- Runs on
- The heating system's own cloud
- Shipped by
- One factory
What it is
Your Warmboard bridge sends every room's temperature and target to the vendor's server about once a minute. The vendor's app shows almost none of it, and nothing keeps it.
WarmForward reads it and keeps it. You get a cost for every room, a warning before a room gets too cold, and a record of the rooms that never reach their target.
It cannot change your temperature. The one thing it writes is the vacation switch, the same one the vendor's app has, and that app keeps working as it does today.
What the factory did
Worked out how the system talks. From public filings and the vendor's own app it found that the bridge's only way in is the vendor's cloud, and wrote a small client for it.
Built the app. Rooms and their history, the cost of each room at the rate the boiler really burns, the water loop and the boiler on one screen, and rooms grouped by the program their thermostat runs. Several people can share a home, as owner, editor or viewer.
Kept it running on its own. Scheduled jobs read every home every five minutes, catch each room's set-point every minute, fetch the outdoor temperature from the home's Environment Canada station twice an hour, and send a weekly email at 5 pm on Sunday in each house's own time zone.
Measured, then fixed. With two homes the read was cut off at 60.6 seconds, so each home now gets its own. The set-points turned up zero times in 2,274 reads, because the vendor publishes them for about 55 seconds in every ten minutes, so a separate check now runs every minute.
Added the trip planner. Vacation goes on when you leave, and the heat comes back on at the time you set.
Your idea, shipped like this
One factory, working while you sleep.