Heatzy pilot test: to simply connect its electric radiators

Before closing everything, Heatzy offers to check if the case communicates well with the radiator. To do this, it is necessary to reactivate the electric current and activate the thermostat mode in the radiator menus. He is named differently according to the brand: so do not hesitate to immerse yourself in the user manual of your radiator. It would have seemed wise that Heatzy offers at least indications for the best known manufacturers … In our case, we must place ourselves in “Prog” mode then activate the option “Piloting by external module”.

Heatzy Glow test: an affordable and complete connected radiator

Already known for its solutions which allow you to connect any electric radiator, Heatzy goes even further with its Glow, a conveur connected full of options. Here is his test.

Presentation

The Glow is an electric radiator which is available in three powers (1000, 1500 and 2000 W) in order to adapt to the surface and volume of the room to be heated. They are offered at the respective prices of 159, 179 and 209 €. You will have guessed it, the idea is to be able to control its connected radiator remotely: turn it on or off, program it, configure the settings, etc., of course, of course, to save energy while improving comfort.

Ergonomics

For our test carried out in a part of about fifteen square meters, we retained the model of 1500 W which measures 595 x 80 x 565 mm for a weight of approximately 13 kg. The radiator is white with a metal body. Inside, we find a ceramic heating body. This material will store heat to diffuse it in a constant and homogeneous way. This technology would allow, according to the brand, “to combine immediate radiation and gentle heat“”.

Above, there is a touch control panel to control the radiator without having to draw your smartphone. The finish of the whole is correct, but we have seen better by looking at it, especially on convectors from major brands. This does not presume the reliability of the product, but the painting of the metal parts is not perfect in certain places. Nothing crippling, and above all nothing visible, because the light faults observed are on the back of the radiator, or even below.

Convenience of employment

The installation is identical to that of any electric convector. To do this, Heatzy has the good idea to provide a template. Once taped to the wall, it indicates precisely where to pierce the holes in the wall in order to fix the support. It is convenient. So you will only need a drill, a screwdriver and a level.

Do not neglect the quality of the fixation, because the baby weighs his weight. The brand provides standard multimaterial ankles, but depending on the material of your wall, do not hesitate to use more specific fixings. The bracket system allows the radiator to be put and quickly remove; an advantage for possible maintenance or cleaning operations.

Then come the electrical connection operations which, of course, must be carried out once the electricity of the house cut. Installation is not very complicated. We find the three classic sons, namely the phase, the neutral and the pilot thread. The latter being useful only if your home has a room thermostat, we will not use it in our case. It is therefore enough to remove the cache from the wall outlet of the radiator to replace and connect the phase wires and the neutral of the GLOW to your electrical installation. It is possible to use classics to be screwed or a fast WAGO type system. Once the cache repositioned, we hang the radiator to its wall support and we put the current. The manipulation is very simple.

Finally, the Glow must be paired with the Heatzy application, the same as that used for the boxes we tested.

The operation takes only a few minutes and, as often, you have to have in mind that this device is only compatible with WiFi networks in 2.4 GHz. But the sensitivity of the radiator placed in a room relatively distant from the center of the house seemed rather good, better in any case than that of the case of the same brand. Very quickly, the Glow will therefore be connected to the house network and to the Internet to be configured and settled from the application.

Application

We find the rather refined interface that we have already encountered on the pilot case. The home page brings together the various equipment of the brand presented in the form of a list.

We differently differentiate the convectors piloted through the Heatzy case and the brand’s connected radiators. A series of icons activates programming and switching between the three usual modes (comfort, eco and free frost). From the classic therefore, except that the Glow allows you to go further than the connection solutions based only on the pilot wire, whether at 4 or 6 orders.

To find out, it is necessary “slider“On the line corresponding to the convector. You will then see three temperature indications appear: the room temperature and those set for comfort and eco modes. The first is based on a probe integrated into the Glow and which displays a corrected value to take into account the heat released by it. Unlike the wire-pilot case, it is possible from the application to adjust target temperatures directly from the application. It is no longer necessary to make this configuration on the controls integrated into the radiator.

In “slid“On the convector tab, but in the other direction this time, we come across three new options: the first launches the mode of program creation (Max. 5 Different) by choosing day -to -day day by day and operating mode (comfort, Eco, etc.) to be applied. We find the same small faults as with the Heatzy case: the application cannot switch to landscape mode and the size of the cursors seems a bit small under our big malhabile fingers. The second option is for parents, since it allows them to block the physical controls integrated into the radiator. Finally the third option corresponds to the “vacation” mode. The radiator is then cut for a number of days to define.

Of course, this radiator benefits from compatibility with vocal assistants from Google and Amazon. In the end we are faced with a complete application and rather easy to use. We have not encountered instability, whether on Android or iOS.

Heatzy pilot test: to simply connect its electric radiators !

Piloting your remote heating system allows you to save money while preserving the environment. French Heatzy has understood this and offers a simple and inexpensive solution to connect its electric radiators.

Presentation

Heatzy is a small brand of French Tech which develops some connected solutions for heating. The pilot Heatzy takes the form of a small case that connects to an electric radiator through a pilot wire. It allows you to manage the radiator from your smartphone by changing its operating mode (comfort, eco, etc.) and by establishing programming in order for example to switch to eco mode during the day when the part is empty. To do this, the case connects to the Internet via Wi-Fi.
The case is sold for € 49 and the pack of three € 124.95, a reduction of 15 %. You will understand, you need a Heatzy case by electric radiator.

Convenience of employment

Before starting the installation proper, you must download the Heatzy app available of course for Android and iOS smartphones. It goes without surprise through the creation of an account. Then, the necessary tools is limited to a small flat screwdriver if, like us, you have opted for a fixing with the adhesive supplied. Be careful, the general power supply should be cut to avoid any risk.

The first thing to do is to remove the radiator from the wall to access the connection that is hidden. The radiators are directly connected to the electrical arrival through a domino or a rapid fixing system. In our case, the pilot wire of the radiator is not connected to nothing since unused.

The connection of the housing is very simple since it is simply necessary to place its cables in the same locations as those of the radiator: the brown wire (phase) of the housing with the brown wire of the radiator and the blue wire (neutral) case with that radiator. We then bring together the black pilot wires of the radiator and the case in one of the dilapidated accommodation. Do not touch the domino on the side of the current arrival. And now, the hardest part is done, a priori.

Before closing everything, Heatzy offers to check if the case communicates well with the radiator. To do this, it is necessary to reactivate the electric current and activate the thermostat mode in the radiator menus. He is named differently according to the brand: so do not hesitate to immerse yourself in the user manual of your radiator. It would have seemed wise that Heatzy offers at least indications for the best known manufacturers … In our case, we must place ourselves in “Prog” mode then activate the option “Piloting by external module”.

We then followed to the letter the procedure described in the manual which makes it possible to establish if the communication is correct. To do this, use the housing control button until the radiator extinction. The next step is the pairing between the application and the case. We encountered our first difficulty with the Heatzy system. Indeed, the case did not want to connect to the house wi-fi network. The application indicates that only 2.4 GHz networks. However, we use a system mesh TP Link Deco which, like most products of this type, offers a single SSID which hides a 2.4 GHz network and a 5 GHz network. Under these conditions, even if there is an active 2.4 GHz network, the case could not connect. We ended up finding the solution, after ten minutes of unsuccessful tests. We simply created a suitable network only on the 2.4 GHz band. It ended up working, and we closed the socket before gluing the case on the wall.

The pilot thread Quèsaco ?

The electric radiators, also called convectors, are equipped with a small additional wire, generally black, which comes in addition to the neutral (blue or gray) and the phase (red or brown). The pilot thread is a French specificity which has become compulsory by the thermal regulations version 2000, in other words RT2000. There are two types of pilot wire: 4 -orders pilot wire and 6 -orders pilot wire that appeared more recently. The first is capable of asking the radiator to go into “comfort”, “eco”, “out of frost” mode or to stop. The second offers the possibility of giving two additional orders: comfort temperature – 1 ° and comfort temperature – 2 °. The Heatzy case is confined to the management of the 4 -orders pilot wires.

Application

The application home screen presents the radiator/housing duos (s). In our case, there is only one product installed and which therefore corresponds to a first child’s room. A series of icons then appears. The first to cut the radiator, the second to switch to “comfort” mode, the third point towards the “eco” mode and the fourth towards the “out of frost” mode.

For the “comfort” mode, the system takes into account the temperature set manually directly on the radiator. It serves as a basis for “eco” mode which corresponds to 3.5 ° C degrees less than the “comfort” mode. This is the standard in force in France. Too bad it is not possible to manually adjust the temperature of a radiator. Do not incriminate Heatzy, but it is a limit of the pilot wire technology.
You will understand, by pressing the icons presented above, you change the operating mode of the connected radiator. A long support also reveals a carousel that offers you to activate a “boost” mode 30 minutes, 60 minutes, 90 minutes or 120 minutes. This feature is only available on iOS at the moment.
By dragging the control banner to the left, three other possibilities appear: programming the operating beaches of the radiator, cutting of LEDs and control button on the case and activation of a “vacation” mode that will cut the radiator for a number of days defined by you.

With programming begins in our eyes the real quest for energy saving. The system offers you 5 different programs. The configuration is not very complicated in itself, but it is necessary to master an interface not always easy to understand or at least to manipulate: everything is done with the application which does not change in landscape mode. Some sliders are a bit small for our big fingers. We would have appreciated that Heatzy offers a web interface like the Nest thermostats, for example.
Do not panic, it is nevertheless very well done, and in a few minutes we establish a first scenario which will make it possible to optimize electricity consumption.

We have seen that a Heatzy box by radiator took, but it may be tedious to program all the devices of the house individually. This is why the application makes it possible to bring together boxes in “heating areas”. It will thus be relevant to bring together all the radiators of the house rooms so that they all have the same operation. The operation is carried out by a simple drag and drop-practical. Another more, it is possible to control the case through a voice assistant. For our test, we installed the Amazon Alexa Heatzy skill before connecting it to Google Home.