I bought a second hand Nest Thermostat v1 (the European model with heatlink). I installed it and the Thermostat seems to work. The central heating boiler (Vaillant hrPRO CW3 VHR NL CW 3/3) seems to turn on but not off.
Even though it's in Dutch, this is the official manual of the boiler system. Maybe the schemes give some more insights to some people.
I disconnected the old thermostat wires from the "bus" +/- like shown below and connected it to 2/3 on the heatlink as shown on the second image.
After that I removed the old thermostat and connected the wires (t1/t2) on the heatlink to the Nest thermostat.
At first I used a cable between the heatlink and boiler that might have been not thick enough (phone cable) then the boiler showed a Vaillant F49 fault. But after I disabled everything again, used a thicker cable, and did a reset of the boiler, heatlink and Nest the error was gone.
Now it seems that when I enable the three devices. I can enable the boiler by turning the heat up on the Nest thermostat but it won't stop heating anymore when I turn the temperature down on the thermostat.
Did I connect something wrong? Or do I still have to change some wires in the boiler in order to get this to work properly?
Some extra info:
Also, what is the red wire between 3/4 doing in my boiler? Can I remove it? Was it necessary for the old thermostat to work?
Or, do I need to connect the Heatlink and boiler with 7,8 or 9 instead of the "bus +/-"? The manual seems to show something about a manual mode.
Best Answer
I fixed it myself. In the manual (page 18) there is the following image.
As shown on the photo in the question:
From left to right: The red "bridge cable" is meant to close the circuit in order for the next two (bus +/-) to work. But the bus connectors only work with with an eBus system. Which is not compatible with the Nest Heatlink.
The two wires that are used to connect the boiler to the heat link (the left brown/blue wires) should be connected to the 4/3 connectors instead. So after removing the red bridge cable and connecting the heat link to 4/3 of the boiler, it worked fine.
Disclaimer for those with the same problem: I'm not a electrician, although I did check the solution with one. Try this at your own risk.