Eheim's new wifi heaters.

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Eheim's new wifi heaters.

I emailed Eheim about the option in my controller's "Add Device section", to add an EHEIM thermocontrol +.

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Eheim have stated that there will be a new wifi heater in the new year:

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This will be add to the control panel, (I screen dump my present control panel home page):

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I’m old. What are the advantages of a wifi heater?
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I personally don't see the point.
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I don’t even get how they work? You can adjust them from a phone app? is my guess.
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black ghost wrote: Wed Oct 13, 2021 15:47 pm I don’t even get how they work? You can adjust them from a phone app? is my guess.
My thoughts exactly. Its designed to do one thing, why complicate it by bringing apps and wifi into it :D
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It’s unnecessary but it’ll increase the price. Lovely.
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That's the idea, like LED lights there's nothing really special about them so they have to do something to justify the high price.
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black ghost wrote: Wed Oct 13, 2021 13:28 pm I’m old. What are the advantages of a wifi heater?
I suppose it stops you getting hand wet adjusting the heater. :grin:
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If it can send an alert to your phone if the heater malfunctions or something, that could be handy, laying in bed and a heater goes, alarm sounds etc
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Lo1 likes technology and likes Eheim products. I also like Eheim products.
The Eheim Wi-Fi heater is another technology.
It can quote:
Eheim wrote:Precise temperature adjustment from 20 to 32 °C
No readjustment necessary
Control accuracy ± 0.5 °C
The heat is kept constant
Control lamp indicates the heating function (red: heating up; green: temperature reached)
Fully submersible (waterproof)
With dry-running protection (Thermo Safety Control)
The Eheim ThermoControl e150 costs less than £30, so not overly expensive.
Lo1 already has the Eheim professional 5e 450 external filter with integrated Wi-Fi function and wireless control via smartphone, so adding a Wi-Fi heater kindof makes sense, all controlled from a smartphone.

I prefer my Eheim (non Wi-Fi) Pro external filters and my Hydor external (in-line) heaters but each to their own. ;]

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