This might already exist, but when will we have Nest for showers? Or water temp in general? Turn knob to perfect degree. Save settings, remember your preferences. Potentially conserve water and energy. I'd like this.
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right but the handle is just a valve and you can hook the valve to a small motor and a switch.
the electrical part must not be that hard, there are wall hanging water heaters in the shower with the electrical cord sticking out in many 3rd world countries.
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Hmm. That's not true (at least in my house). We have an electronically controlled shower unit which is wired to the 240V supply and includes a very fast electric heater for the water and a thermostatic control.
If you wanted to improve our shower it would be to have a different memorized setting for me and my SO.
See, for example, http://www.aqualisa.co.uk/power-showers/
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#5Sounds awesome!
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Is that Nest talking about the UK again?
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#7http://www.hansgrohe-usa.com/18920.htm
Not sure what "rain brain" is, but their non-electric thermostatic valves do a lot of what you want (we have them in our house).
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#8There's no need for electric showers. The heat regulator could be attached to the "cold" and "hot" handles and a thermometer at the output of the shower.
When the temperature differs from the setup it automatically adjust the "hot" or "cold" temperature to regulate it.
The problem with this is that the whole system would be "reactionary", meaning that temperature regulations would only happen AFTER temperature alterations.
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#9People really like to overcomplicate their lives
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#10I've been working on building an arduino-powered solution for this but for sinks, using 2 servos to control the hot/cold faucets and a waterproof temp sensor measuring/controlling the output.
Initial challenge was easy, but I'm now having issues with the fact that the pipes cool/warm over time as they get used, and that doesn't seem to be playing well with the basic logic I have in place to keep the temp. balanced.