Smart Thermostats

[mpire]

Get the cheapest honeywell with wifi. No one actually uses the schedules, they just change the temp with their phone instead of walking to the thermostat. All the learning thermometers do is piss you off when they can't read your mind.

Also, alexa works great with the cheapest wifi honeywell. All my friends with fancier thermostats have sold them and downgraded because I can just yell thermostat 78 and the temp changes.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00Y6M2OUC/?tag=atomicindus08-20

For the price of the fancy ecobee or the pretty but infuriating nest, you can get both the honeywell wifi and an amazon dot. You are never going to look at the actual thermostat again, so who cares what it looks like?

 

[FreedomPenguin]

Genuinely love my nest 3rd gen. Reduced my energy bill a ton. I have a set schedule, but it really does well on knowing when im home and gone, theres days when I am gone 90% of day and it shuts itself off, when I walk in door, on away she goes. There are rebates a lot, my energy company offered 200 off the 250 nest. so i paid 50 bucks. More than likely similiar rebates in your area as well

 

[tedo2007]

Genuinely love my nest 3rd gen. Reduced my energy bill a ton. I have a set schedule, but it really does well on knowing when im home and gone, theres days when I am gone 90% of day and it shuts itself off, when I walk in door, on away she goes. There are rebates a lot, my energy company offered 200 off the 250 nest. so i paid 50 bucks. More than likely similiar rebates in your area as well

We don't get any cool discounts where I live but have saved hundreds a year since switching


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[Lsversaw]

Does anybody have experience with, or knowlege of, the security risks associated with remote (away from home) access? Does it create an opportunity for a bad guy to gain access to your wireless network from the curb or over the internet?