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Ideal Halo smart Wi-Fi system

  • 14-06-2022 08:21PM
    #1
    BobbyT28
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,453 ✭✭✭


    Hi,

    Neighbor of mine just dropped this is as he knows I’m a smart home geek! I’ve never heard of this system and I’m not very familiar with it. He got it with his ideal boiler last year, I’m getting a ideal boiler fitted in a couple of months and this is designed for it.

    Has anybody be got this and is using it with Google or Alexa? I have a Google nest aware sub and was going to get the next thermostat but if this does the same or intergrates well with Alexa and Google I might take it off him as it’s a freebie

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    Any info or advise be great


    thanks in advance

    BobbyT28



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  • #2
    BobbyT28
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,453 ✭✭✭BobbyT28


    Anyone?



  • #3
    Yellow_Fern
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,685 ✭✭✭Yellow_Fern


    Seems good. Does Opentherm



  • #4
    WildCardDoW
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 914 ✭✭✭WildCardDoW


    https://idealheating.com/support/faqs/halo-alexa-google-home

    As you've had no personalised responses - here's what they say themselves.

    One thing to consider as a risk is support can die quite quickly with less popular products if they don't pay a team to keep their side working with any changes Google introduce.

    Theoretically should work with any boiler (as Yellow_Fern mentioned it has OpenTherm) but a lot of the marketing material only mentions their own boilers so it limits the total number of people to that brand and then to a plumber who suggests it over Hive, EPH, Tado or the other more popular and well known (to them) smart brands.



  • #5
    Underground
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,562 ✭✭✭Underground


    Thought I'd just post in here given I'm currently trawling the internet trying to solve a problem these things have created. Got two of these with my house and they were connected to the heat pump. Don't buy these things, they're f***ing sh**e.

    Completely unreliable, will disconnect for no good reason at all, and good luck getting them reconnected after they do. Asbolute dogwater product, much better off with the oldschool style of heating your house with the flick of a switch rather than some high filuting device that doesn't even work.



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