Bellpress status in Wiser

Hi There.

I have just managed to hook up my central heating unit to c-bus, but the only way I could do this is solder a 2-core cable to the back of the heater's digital thermostat's on/off button, which happens to be a bellpress.

I have taken it back to a relay channel and control it via a group address from some DLT's and also my Wiser unit as a bellpress. The only problem I have is I don't know the status of the heater when away from home, and my wife has a habit of accidentally leaving the heater on once every few weeks.

What's the best way I can achieve this?

Cheers

 

Bell press monitoring

The best way would be to get an output out of the heating unit via a voltage that is activated wen the unit starts. You could install a aux relay that closes when the unit is on and run a twin back to a aux input module.
The other option would be create a flag that toggles each time te unit is pulsed, this would give a status as long as there was no glitch and it missed seeing a pulse