Got a plain thermostat or a fancy one in your house?
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jagdriver727
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I have an Emerson Sensi with WiFi, but the Customer Support that Emerson provides is non-existent. I contacted them for some assistance on December 28th. I'm still waiting for a human to respond, nearly three weeks later. It is as if they have no idea as to what "Customer Support" really is. Since they aren't really a consumer based company, that could be a lot of it.
I should have bought a Nest or an Ecobee instead.
I should have bought a Nest or an Ecobee instead.
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Nick1994
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Just a $35 programmable one.
No advantage here to spend $250 on a fancy one other than for it to look cool in the hallway. I never touch it, except to switch from heat to cool and vice versa a couple times a year.
No advantage here to spend $250 on a fancy one other than for it to look cool in the hallway. I never touch it, except to switch from heat to cool and vice versa a couple times a year.
Honeywell WiFi/Touchscreen one from about 7 or 8 years ago.
I never use the app or programming functions, but the old house it was originally installed in was unattended for many days at a time during the winter. I bought it for the low-temp notification function.
I never use the app or programming functions, but the old house it was originally installed in was unattended for many days at a time during the winter. I bought it for the low-temp notification function.
Honeywell (now marketed under Residio) T9 in the house and T5 in the garage. T9 has 4 remote sensors that I use during various scheduled times to average out set points. I didn't have any interest in the learning functionality of the nest but wanted geofencing which these provide. Along with the basic stuff that comes with WiFi like low temp alerts, etc.
The newer infinity thermostats with wifi will work on your system. If you ever wanted to go that route that is.
Antiques, but they do the job fine if you set it, forget it and don't need a programmable one. Better than those "smart" ones your electric company offers for practrically nothing so they can overide it via internet during those high demand days in the summer time.
The one before just had a dial, but I changed it quickly after moving in. The setting was so off 20C could be 18C or 24C depending on it's mood.
I then got a fancy one, in comparison. Digital, programmable for 7 days, with several temperatures a day, can also be used to turn on AC. Does everything I need it to.
Huh? All the disconnects I’ve seen required a control box connected directly to the AC unit outside. Didn’t affect how the air handler inside operated one bit.
4 systems?.... Yikes!
I have a plain Jane tstat. Doesn’t even have a backlight. Yes, the disconnects out here were a unit that were installed on the outside a/c. I say were because they were an item for one season. People freaked when they couldn’t adjust their a/c on a hot day.
If you don't need a new one you'll never have to worry about going to great lengths to get rid of the mercury thermo. It will outlast you.
jagdriver727
Site Donor 2021
6500 square feet and a weird layout makes for an air conditioning disaster.
Three different systems downstairs and upstairs is on its own.
The house didn’t have central air originally so that added to the complication.
With three people in the house working different shifts there was no point in having a programmable stat. Had one but it was a pain the rear. Have the most basic digital now. When I don't need heat [going to bed] I don't turn down the temp, I just turn it off. Back on when someone gets up.
Is there a password protected thermostat on the market? Just asking for a friend, LOL.
I bought a 3rd generation Nest back in 2017 or thereabouts - with power company rebate it ended up being ~$260, its in the mid $100's now since it is basically a 4-5 year old thermostat. My old apartment where it was originally installed it saved me a boatload of utility $$$ mainly from the auto-learning and the auto away/eco mode, I had a baseline on regular thermostat consumption vs nest. New place I can't say because it was one of the first things I installed before I even moved in.
The automatic functions make this thing absolutely blow regular programmables out of the water. I turned off learning mode and deleted the schedules when we were WFH for months but now we are both back to work I can prob get a new schedule going - we have just been relying on the automatic away function.
The automatic functions make this thing absolutely blow regular programmables out of the water. I turned off learning mode and deleted the schedules when we were WFH for months but now we are both back to work I can prob get a new schedule going - we have just been relying on the automatic away function.
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