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Understanding heating control

Heating is responsible for the lion’s share of a home’s energy costs, but you can cut down these costs with the right heating control unit. You will then enjoy efficient, simple and convenient control of the heating, ventilation or even the full range of building services in your smart home.

What types of heating control units are there?

Heating control options range from digital operating elements on the equipment itself to smart modules situated in the individual rooms or even intelligent control of the heating in a smart home. It is even possible to combine various models together.

01. What actually is Smarthome?

In the smart home, all devices in the household communicate with each other. Whether it's the heating or the television, the lighting or the garden irrigation: everything is intelligently networked and thus very easy to control centrally.

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02. Smart heating control from WOLF

Programming units and room modules from WOLF are perfectly suited for the efficient control of your heating and mechanical ventilation. For even greater convenience, take advantage of additional smart home solutions like the Smartset app and the compatible interface modules.

WOLF BM-2 operating module

BM-2 programming unit

With the WOLF BM-2 control module, you can conveniently control your entire building technology. The module allows you to control the heating, ventilation and solar thermal system using a single device.

WOLF Room module RM-2

RM-2 room module

With the WOLF RM-2 room module, you have access to all heat generators and domestic ventilation with a single user interface. It could hardly be more convenient - because you decide where the room module should be located.

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Smart home solutions

Control heating via app? With the WOLF Smartset app and the two interface modules Link home and Link pro, remote heating control is very simple. You can also operate the ventilation and solar system just as easily via smartphone or PC.

03. Benefits at a glance 

The right heating control unit can greatly simplify your life:

Save costs

Profit from savings

Low heating costs

A modern heating control unit will save you energy. The heating will be coordinated with the outdoor temperature, increasing or decreasing accordingly. You won’t pay any unnecessary energy costs since the heat generator will never produce any more heat than necessary. Are you wondering how that works?

The control unit precisely sets the radiator thermostats for you so that all rooms are just exactly as warm as necessary. There is usually a holiday mode as well. Read more

Attractive subsidies

The state offers attractive subsidies for modern heating systems with smart control, allowing you to recoup your investment costs very quickly.

If you also choose a smart home system, you will receive additional subsidies. Read more

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Simple appliance control

High convenience

The beautiful thing about saving energy with a modern heating control unit is that it takes place automatically. You don’t need to worry about a thing. Daytime and weekend programmes are fully configured and adapted to your needs. Read more

Simple operation

The many automatic functions make the control unit especially convenient. It’s even simpler with smart home heating: you can control various appliances, radiator thermostats or the underfloor heating and make any necessary changes in an app at any time.

Heating and ventilation units from WOLF can even be operated comfortably from the sofa with the voice assistant Alexa. Voice commands like “Alexa, raise the room temperature by 3°C” or “Alexa, turn on light ventilation” are especially practical for elderly occupants.  Read more

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Live safely

High safety

A modern heating control unit ensures safe heating. With the smart home heating control unit, you can take this even further and benefit from early warnings and fault messages.

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Convenient operation with WOLF Smartset App

Thanks to the Smartset app, you can connect your WOLF heating system to the Link home or Link pro interface modules. This makes it easy to control the heating with the Smarthome from anywhere via smartphone. Would you prefer to control your home technology centrally from your laptop at home? No problem, the Smartset portal offers you the same options as the app.

This way, you not only increase comfort and safety, you also save a lot of energy - for example, by conveniently reducing the temperature in the water tank with your smartphone.

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04. Smart home functions for heating, cooling and ventilation

With a smart home, you can benefit from a wide range of centrally controlled functions:


  • Day and week programmes

    Thanks to the day programme you save, the kitchen will automatically be warm in the morning. During the day, while you are at work and no one is home, it will remain cooler. In the afternoon, the heating control unit in the smart phone will ensure that the indoor atmosphere is comfortable by the time you get home. You choose the desired temperature – with individual settings for every room, of course. 

     

    In the week programme, you can decide when the smart home heating system will lower the temperature, such as every Thursday evening while you are at the gym. On the weekend, the smart home can ensure comfortable heat all day long – however you prefer.

  • Controlling the water temperature

    You can also save a lot of energy by lowering the water temperature in your hot water cylinder using the smart home app while you are away. After all, you don’t need to have large amounts of hot water standing ready for a bath when you aren’t even home.

  • Smart ventilation control

    With the smart home app, it is also perfectly simple to increase the ventilation on summer nights. Controlling the ventilation system this way ensures that your home will cool down overnight and the intense summer heat will never even find its way indoors. During a party, it also makes sense to supply more fresh air to keep the air from growing stifling.

     

    Another use: if you hang up your laundry in the basement, this will increase the humidity. The smart home can then take action and lower the humidity. You won’t even need to open the windows, which would let out valuable heat in the winter or allow it to enter in the summer. Smart ventilation control

  • Optional geofencing

    Some smart home providers integrate geofencing into their system. With this function, your smart home heating system knows via GPS how far you are from your home.


    It can then predict your return and ramp up the room thermostats in the rooms. The same applies to your ventilation system. Then you can enjoy comfortable temperatures and an ideal indoor atmosphere when you get home. If your smart home system has a geofencing function, you can use it with appliances from WOLF.

     

    By the way: Today’s smart home thermostats can detect whether or not someone is in the room. Then the system only heats when you are actually using the rooms.

  • Other functions

    Anyone looking to improve the comfort of their home will be pleased by other functions offered by a smart home, such as automatic brewing of coffee in the morning or starting of the robot vacuum later in the day. The control unit also detects power-hungry devices, automatically switching off lights and devices with high standby consumption.

     

    You can integrate security components such as motion sensors, surveillance cameras or sirens into the building control to alert you of suspicious movements. The best part: all devices can be controlled from anywhere at any time.

    The potential of intelligent building control and the network of diverse devices is far from exhausted. For example, researchers are working on intelligent rescue systems that inform first responders in event of emergency.

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05. What you need for smart heating & building control

The prerequisites for a smart home and a smart heating control unit are relatively modest:

Internet access: To control appliances such as your heating with a smart home, you naturally need an internet connection.

Control units and base station: For networking the various devices in your home, you need a base station, which functions as a central control unit. Communication between devices is generally wireless. This way, all objects are networked together over the internet.

Programming unit: To use the heating control in a smart home, you will need a programming unit such as the BM-2. This is the key to smart heating.

Interface modules: You can integrate your heating system into your smart home with suitable interface modules such as the Link home and Link pro from WOLF. These can bring your smart heating online.

06. Frequently asked questions "Smartset"

  • Do you want to connect the WOLF Link to a router via a LAN cable or via WLAN using WPS (Push Button Configuration)? Then the integrated connecting-assistant or our short manual installation and operating instructions will help you. You can find the different instruction options also here.

  • The statistics on energy efficiency with an evaluation over various time periods within the Energy Cockpit are only available if an external S0 meter is connected. This must be purchased separately and connected to the heat pump (CHA, FHA). 
    This is the only way to display the relationship between the (electrical) energy consumed and the environmental energy generated, as shown in the screenshot in the appendix.  

  • For full functionality, the components of the WOLF system must have the latest software.

    Examples:
    The "1x recharge" function for charging the hot water cylinder once outside the time programme request can be operated via Smartset if the BM-2 system operating module in your WOLF system has firmware 1.50 or newer.

    The BWL-1, BWW-1 and BWS-1 heat pumps only support Smartset from heat pump firmware 1.70.

  • You can find the requirements here:

  • For WLAN operation of an ISM7i / WOLF Link Home, installation in the electrical connection box of the MGK-2 is not recommended. Instead, install the interface module in the front panel of the heater.

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