Wireless thermostat

So we have one of these Salus RT500RF Wireless thermostats..

So far its working ok.  The thermostat is quite long winded to set up.  If you don't want a timezoned background temperature the least you can get away with is programming 10 time zones to the same temperature, aint nobody got time for that.

I think we can do better...
I have cobbled together a PIC16F1455 with an RFM12B and should soon be able to switch the boiler on and off from my PC.

Cobbled together USB Radio...

Not very neat and not a good photo, but it receives and transmits on selectable frequencies around 868MHz.

This continues in my 'home automation' post...