My wife is asking me about getting one because our electric bill was that it has ever been even more than last year at this time nothing has really changed since last year last month unless the electric company has done some fuel adjustment charges I have not done any investigation into yet but I might have to but there was a time back a few years ago that I use to set the temperature warm during the day when we were not home but when we got wooden floors in our house and you have to keep the humidity down to keep it from warping I just set to a temperature to 75*F to keep the humidity down but I have to come to realization that I do not have keep it that low all the time
The issue with thermostat that you program are great if you have a predictable schedule and you do not deviate from from it very often plus my wife is not programming inclined but wants to be able to change the thermostat setting when she wants to and not wait for me to change which here is the other issue is that these type of thermostat are not very easily changed because you have to go through all of program settings to just make changes to one set of settings which is some case a pain in the a** to do
The temperature hold setting is a good feature but it in most cases turns itself back to normal programming settings and you are back to the program and setting that you have
But I have a concern about doing this type of thermostat controller hooked to the WiFi how easy is it hack and gain full control of your air conditioning system and what safe guards can you do to keep it from being taken over by someone else
I do have a garage door that is hooked up to the WiFi but what I really use if for is to make sure that the garage door was not left open by accident by someone I have no real issue now but when I first got I had issues getting it worked correctly I put a gate way adapter on my router for it to work properly I had a post about the issues I was having because the manufacturer of this device was not very forthcoming about wireless connection to your router and it you had issues and what could be done about
The issue with thermostat that you program are great if you have a predictable schedule and you do not deviate from from it very often plus my wife is not programming inclined but wants to be able to change the thermostat setting when she wants to and not wait for me to change which here is the other issue is that these type of thermostat are not very easily changed because you have to go through all of program settings to just make changes to one set of settings which is some case a pain in the a** to do
The temperature hold setting is a good feature but it in most cases turns itself back to normal programming settings and you are back to the program and setting that you have
But I have a concern about doing this type of thermostat controller hooked to the WiFi how easy is it hack and gain full control of your air conditioning system and what safe guards can you do to keep it from being taken over by someone else
I do have a garage door that is hooked up to the WiFi but what I really use if for is to make sure that the garage door was not left open by accident by someone I have no real issue now but when I first got I had issues getting it worked correctly I put a gate way adapter on my router for it to work properly I had a post about the issues I was having because the manufacturer of this device was not very forthcoming about wireless connection to your router and it you had issues and what could be done about
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