Utility pole car engine smart heater
Posted: 28 Nov 2019, 14:01
Hello!
I´m sorry if my english is not so good and badly translated words might appear in your eyes
So the idea behind this is that we have here electric (220v ac) poles at yard and parking slots where we could connect our cars to heat at winter but there are no timers in them (-5c--25c pretty regular at winters but it can vary from +4c - -45c). Basic solution for that is the regular timer between the socket and cord but thats just not good in general if we think of saving energy and not overheat engines coolingliquid.
There are solutions of using esps and others with Openhab, Home Assistant and Domoticz with RF433/Zigbee/++, but im asking that is there even thereabout idea of using esps as standalone unit with these capabilities
- Weekly programmable leaving time with wifi and using relay for needed time for heater control (Ambient temperature reading and heating time adjust for that) (Maybe Google Calendar?)
- User manual button for 2h direct heating
- multiuser for 2 or more cars
- Standalone, so using RTC needed or using time from internet
- Wifi connection loosing cannot interrupt operation
- Case heating, not so necessary
- Car inside temperature reading, not so necessary
I´m sorry if my english is not so good and badly translated words might appear in your eyes
So the idea behind this is that we have here electric (220v ac) poles at yard and parking slots where we could connect our cars to heat at winter but there are no timers in them (-5c--25c pretty regular at winters but it can vary from +4c - -45c). Basic solution for that is the regular timer between the socket and cord but thats just not good in general if we think of saving energy and not overheat engines coolingliquid.
There are solutions of using esps and others with Openhab, Home Assistant and Domoticz with RF433/Zigbee/++, but im asking that is there even thereabout idea of using esps as standalone unit with these capabilities
- Weekly programmable leaving time with wifi and using relay for needed time for heater control (Ambient temperature reading and heating time adjust for that) (Maybe Google Calendar?)
- User manual button for 2h direct heating
- multiuser for 2 or more cars
- Standalone, so using RTC needed or using time from internet
- Wifi connection loosing cannot interrupt operation
- Case heating, not so necessary
- Car inside temperature reading, not so necessary