On Sat, 6 Dec 2014 05:31:59 -0800 (PST), trader_4
wrote:
On Saturday, December 6, 2014 2:01:24 AM UTC-5, micky wrote:
On Fri, 05 Dec 2014 23:52:18 -0500, wrote:
Any suggestions? Thanks
The thermostat you envision does exist - made/sold by "smart home".
see it at
http://www.smarthome.com/wireless-th...-receiver.html
This one looks pretty good and it's only 200 dollars, not 700.
1) I was shopping for a furnace, and they all pretty much insisted I
buy a new fancy thermostat with the furnace, even though I have a 7-day
setback Heat/AC stat that works just fine. Were they bluffing?
Maybe. One factor is they probably prefer using a new thermostat that
they know versus a customer's old one. They may have past experiences
of customers having problems, callbacks, etc where it turns out it was
the old thermostat.
One key issue is if you're getting a two stage furnace, which, IMO,
most people should. With a two stage, it fires at full capacity or
about 2/3's capacity....
Do they make two stage furnaces that run on oil? Maybe that's why no
one mentioned two-stage afaicr.
Just
trying to squeeze more money out of me? None of them offered a remote
control thermostat.
And of course they weren't nearly as comon, or even commonly advertised,
just 3 years ago.
Today if I were getting a new thermostat, I'd want a wifi one. That way,
if you're going on a trip, maybe not sure when you're coming back, you
can connect via smartphone on the way back and have the house at temp
when you arrive.
I don't have any babies and fwiw that doesn't matter to me. It doesn't
take long to heat up or cool down.
It's also good if you're not sure you turned back the
temp when you left, want to check the house temp to make sure the system
is working, etc.
That's one way. If I ever get the new burglar alarm installed (I'm 80%
done) I'm going to connect a standard 70's round Honeywell thermostat to
the alarm, and set it for 5 or 10 degrees lower than the furnace is set
for, and it will call the alarm monitioring company and tell them it's
too cold in the house. (That is, the furnace isn't working.
The current funace is very good at keeping the whole first and second
floor within one or two degrees of the temperatrure the stat is set for,
but the easiest place to connect the alarm thermostat would be the
basement laundry/furnace room, where the alarm control box is.
I really should start now checking the temp in that room after and just
before the furnace goes on, to see how consistent the temp there is. If
it's always within 2 degrees, I should set the alarm stat to less than
10 degrees colder.
My own perception is not perfect. I go up to my bedroom around
midnight, and it seems so cold, but I keep a known-good thermometer
there now and it says 69. When I wake up in the morning, it feels
warm and it also says 69. Go figure.
Plus you can use your smartphone as a remote while in
the house. It's not exactly what the OP wants though, because everyone
who wants to fiddle with it needs a smartphone, not a shared remote on the
table.
So if I bought this, could I use it with my brand new furnace/AC.
Surely t he answer is yes.
Yes.
Good.
Or would I get stuck replacing it soon after I buy it, because I bought
a furnace that had its own assigned stat?
There are probably some furnaces now that require their own brand
specific thermostat. But most don't and you don't have to buy the
system that needs the special one.
Okay.
2) Also, from the Details, what does this mean: "When more than one
transmitter is used, the receiver will only accept commands
from the transmitter that was last used (button pressed). All other set
points and modes from other transmitters are ignored. If the transmitter
with Unit ID Number 1 has a schedule and is in Program On mode, the
receiver will revert back to following the programmed schedule when a
time period change occurs, even if the transmitter with Unit ID Number 1
is not the current commanding transmitter."
IDK, it's poorly worded
I'll agree with you. Maybe as little as one word got left out. Or
the frequent omission of NOT somewhere.
and seems to contradict itself. It sounds like
whichever remote sent it the last command is what it does. But that last
command could be from a remote that has a time program set in it, in which
case, even if that remote is not the one last used, it will become the last
one used when the time arrives and it issues a new command.
Okay.
I"m not going to get more than one transmitter, but it sounds like there
is no point to having more than one!! The first 4 lines have to be a
mistake, right?
See above.