House remote temperature monitoring

[MNgopher]

A lot of other reasons besides a power failure that the heat may go out...

Our HVAC folks are in the middle of money making season here, and our electricity is pretty much reliable (average member in our co-op experiences a power outage once every four years...).

Can't speak for other climates, but try turning the heat off in the winter and see what happens...

 

[fsdork]

I haven't used one personally, but my father in-law uses a similar device to monitor the humidity in his music room:

https://ca.govee.com/products/wi-fi...eqNDdKP6YrzQ200LnwVl08MnAci37YYBoCKy4QAvD_BwE

It claims to send temp/humidity alerts wherever you are, suggesting your phone doesn't have to be connected to your home's WiFi for it to receive an alert.

I have a couple of D-Link Wi-Fi water sensors set up in my house - I haven't had an alert while away, but I can see the sensors periodically wake up from power saving mode to sync their status, so I know I would get the alerts if an issue arose.

 

[mart184]

You have to be careful with the WiFi devices; if there's a power outage they won't send any alerts because WiFi will be down, and that's exactly the time where you have to be worried about heat failures. There are cellular monitors with backup batteries that don't need wifi.

We use one at our cabin because we won't have wifi there and it will send text and email alerts from across the world. Fortunately no furnace failure yet...

 

[Cropduster172]

I've got a Google Nest thermostat in our beach house. It replaced a Honeywell WiFi one. I don't like the nest. It has some good features and the Google Home app works well with it. It has fail safe upper and lower limits factory set. I think 90 upper and 45 lower.
Physical operation is goofy. Google is dropping support for Nest gen 1&2. The app shows I have model 1.4. I figured that makes it a gen 1... Wrong. It's a gen 4. I went and bought another Honeywell...$40 at Lowe's. I'll probably run the Nest for the summer and then swap it for the Honeywell. The Honeywell app is simple and straightforward and the physical buttons make manual operation a breeze.
OP, you may want to look at the Amazon smart thermostat.

 

[alarmguy]

This thread is 3 years old but we are happy with our Honeywell Wi-Fi thermostat.

 

[kschachn]

You have to be careful with the WiFi devices; if there's a power outage they won't send any alerts because WiFi will be down, and that's exactly the time where you have to be worried about heat failures. There are cellular monitors with backup batteries that don't need wifi.

We use one at our cabin because we won't have wifi there and it will send text and email alerts from across the world. Fortunately no furnace failure yet...

You should get an alert from the thermostat company server that communication has been disrupted, that is what happens with ours. I always take that to be a power failure since I haven’t observed any other type of communication failure (yet).

And if the power is out then the heat doesn’t work either. We have an automatic standby generator, so usually what I get is the alert and then followed relatively quickly by a restoration notice. I can use the app then to see the current system status and temperature.

I used to have a separate power monitor but I don’t use it anymore now that the thermostat seems to perform the same function.