Hi all! Looking to see if anyone had managed to automate a switch similar to this on my boiler

I live in rented accommodation with no other way to switch on the radiators than this singular knob ( no thermostat etc). As it’s rented I can’t expose the wiring or take apart anything

All I would want the mechanism to do is to be able to switch between having just the hot water on and the hot water and radiators on

As the dial only has to rotate roughly 45 degrees I was even thinking whether an ordinary push switch bot may do it?

Really appreciate any thoughts - I’m not overly electronics inclined so if you’re able to go into simple details it would all be incredibly useful Thanks!

  • knobunc@alien.topBEnglish
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    11 months ago

    Something is really weird here. Can you describe the rest of the hearing system? Is it steam, or circulating hot water? What is the fuel source? Is there a tank of hot water, or is it on demand?

    That switch just looks like it sets where the hot water can go, but there would have to be something else that drives when the water circulates. But running a pump all the time would be expensive.

    Are there perhaps thermostats on the radiators themselves?

    • simonjp@alien.topBEnglish
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      11 months ago

      It looks like this is the the on/off for a combi-boiler; is that right, OP? I would assume there is a timer clock under a panel - a circle with tiny little switches that represent a half-hour or quarter-hour each.