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Underfloor hydronic floor radiant heating is not the same as a water heater.

Sure, but they are also unknown - seems like only made HVAC systems before. No real reviews or anything to find on these so the price alone does not may not mean high quality. This is why I was pondering if there are similar alternatives to compare to. Google results are rather inconclusive and keep getting the few "classic" recommendations or some asian no name brands.

https://airobothome.com/en/smart-thermostat/ I have 3-zone water heating - controlled directly by basic bimetallic/rotary 230V thermostat toggling actuators. I have searched for useful replacements with an option to smartify home when I feel like it. Since it runs 230V to each thermostat - a replacement that makes use of the wiring would be the best. The majority of what I find uses ancient designs and basic BW LCD displays. They just look like trash. Or too cluttered. These ones have a minimal style. Use E-Ink displays. Open local API. Optional CO2 sensor. Precision measurements. Floor sensor option (for bathroom). 230V support (they also have 24V hub based option for extra cost). But they do look quite pricy - 100-150€ (without or with CO2 sensor). So around 450€ for the 3 I need already. No offline firmware updates (the email said they are looking into supporting it). Is there anything else on the market that would be similar?

Cables are mostly all hidden. An indestructible office chair with new wheels. 2x 1440p 180hz ips. TUF 4090 5800x3d + Arctic LF2 420 Samsung 990 PRO 2TB (+ 2 older Samsung sata ssd) 64GB 3200 cl16 DDR4 Corsair rm1200x shift 2x silent wing 4 front, 1 bottom intake The rode mic is just for work meetings (I don't stream) Razer gaming plants. Extra older laptop with 8th get i7 and 2060. 20230723_113842.jpg 20230723_114026.jpg

@Somerandomtechyboi I'm not upgrading board at all, its a520 elite rev 1.0, It's a few years old by now. I removed the fancy plastic shroud since it was too tall for the rad on top.

16GB is getting in the way (especially with some tools etc). No mobo+cpu upgrade planned for a while. A 32 or 64GB kit depending on what I can find on sale (local stores or amazon.de). My Artic LF2 on top partially overlaps RAM at the very end - around ~2cm is behind the fans. The current Hyperx Fury HX434C16FB3K2/16 (discontinued 2400 cl17 / 3466 XMP cl16) ones are 34.1 according to their specs. So need something that fits - and likely a faster one when I'm at it). Aorus A520 Elite should go up to 4733.

Opted to look under the coldplate https://imgur.com/a/Hv1tduY Not good. I flushed it under the sink, ran the pump, and flushed any new gunk. It is temporarily usable temp-wise. But I assume Artic has some unique issue with coolant now? Will see what their support writes - but I assume others may also have issues they haven't noticed yet. Mine went unnoticed because 1080 wasn't really torturing the CPU much, 4090 did.

But that was for pre 2022 models, the qa passed sticker supposedly should be the fixed models already.

Yes, one gets warm. It seems to cool a bit. In bios I can see temp go down a bit if I set fans to also 100%. I assume the water going in is just a bit colder. But starting win from cold, it slowly gets hotter, to 90 and soon just goes above it. It's as if it can't move liquid or is too weak or shuts down?

I recently noticed poor performance / stutter that became more apparent with the new 4090 i installed. I looked at temps and it was throttling. Shut everything down, it was still throttling. I removed the AIO, reapplied paste, checked installation, ensured no trapped air in the pump. Moved it to another table for easier access, turned sideways, heard some gurgling - figured some air got stuck, removed rad and got rid of it. Checked temps and it was even worse. Over 100c. Shut it down. Removed, shook it a bit to ensure nothing trapped and all air is in the rad. Reapplied paste and rechecked mounting. I was in bios to check fan settings and saw 114c CPU temp. The large fans spin, small one does too. One pipe gets hot. Heatsink itself is completely cold. I placed a random air cooler I had on the cpu (not even fully mounted / no pressure, different backplate) to test, and it idles at ~45c. So it's not a CPU issue. I plugged in the aio fan and tried to listen to it with my ear - I could hear some sound / noise. The copper plate was still hot 90c+ and it was just very slowly cooling down, it was running and wasn't even getting heated by anything. I assume either pump has some failure or it has become clogged up somehow. It has QC sticker and bought in Nov 2022. I could open up the cold plate and check the insides, but not sure if this would void warranty. I did not immediately RMA since it goes through some amazon reseller third party shop and is likely going to be an headache. Is there anything else I could check or validate? https://imgur.com/a/TUWAKGC

No. I still have that laptop. Forgot i posted here - searched if anything has changed. Nothing. It is annoyingly loud even at low temp in eco or comfort mode. There is no reason for fans to be this high RPM at 50-60C. I'm just considering modifying the fan and adding an inline resistor to force it to lower temp.

Surely there are hydro+temp sensors around that you can plug on the wall/into the socket (bathroom also needs floor sensor), that you can connect yo Home Assistant - and use that to control relays for the manifold actuators (like with some zigbee/zwave remote switches). I scanned through google and best i found was some battery powered stick on the wall stuff from SONOFF - but nothing that would also allow external sensor to be wired in. They don't even need any LCD or UI in each room. Making use of existing wiring would be the best (currently 220V standard power cable that is just used to switch the acutators on/off). But that would limit it to only one sensor (can't get temp+humidity over just standard cable). And unfortunately i tearing down all the walls for a new cable is not an option - there were no tubes installed to pull your own wiring.

I'm planning to smartify my apartment and repalce the 3 rotary bimetallic thermostats 220V that directly wire to hydronic floor heating acutators. I was considering possibly zwave based (perhaps add humidity as well) for extending smart features later. Was considering perhaps some 12-24V hub in the manifold cabinet and reuse existing wiring for sensors/powering them. Or central console with home assistant to control them and sensors without any screen. I scanned through amazon.de and i just saw page after page of stuff with lcd-s and front panels from 2005. Or special in house mobile apps over wifi. Are there any brands/models to look for or system setups (individual 220v or lower power sensors vs central hub etc)? That aren't also locked into their special ecosystem/proprietary crap.

Anyone had experience with any pcie cards that actually support APTX LL / BT5? And maintaining the controls (volume, next/back, pause etc). Using sennheiser momentum 3 with my laptop, would be nice to seamlessly use it on the PC aswell - for music for example. My dt 770 pro is starting to give up(after repairs, cable replacements etc). No wifi on the PC - 1x, 16x(size) slot available. Also got a free M2 slot.

DSDT.rw Yes it's all up to date and i am using the fan control, but the included profiles registers for EC are wrong - it doesn't seem to apply and shows fan speed at 125%. Included the dsdt dump but i cant find matching registers from there.