How to open a British Gas UP2 Boiler Control Panel

This video shows how to open up this popular make/model of central heating control panel.. it might help you if you're not sure how to get into it without damaging the board.

I'm going to be having a go at a bit of home automation; getting a Raspberry Pi connected up to control my central heating. I wasn't particularly happy ripping out all the existing controls, and wanted to piggyback on the existing controls.. which helps if the Pi ever fails.. I've still got the old controls to fall back on.

Luckily, someone else has had the same idea, and I'm going to follow the points he soldered on his boiler controls.. which are exactly the same as mine; http://fudgetech.blogspot.co.uk/2013/...

I didn't want to mess with the existing heating control board, so bought a duplicate unit from eBay for about £12.. I can perfect the project on that, and install it when I'm ready.