On Thursday, April 23, 2020 at 11:29:34 AM UTC-4, micky wrote:
Another problem with getting a heat pump is that the wirign to the
thermostat is inadequate. no easy way to run a new wire to the same
location**.

1) I know they make wireless thermostats and wifi thermostats, but I
wonder if they made ones that are wired but can get by on only 4 wires,
maybe by modulating the signal or something, and demodulating it at the
furnace end.

https://www.ebay.com/itm/Nordic-Elec...-/303383890610




2) Also, a much harder question: For years I've been looking for this,
a setback thermostat that had a Next button. So if you come home early,
leave early, go to bed or get up early, instead of having to use the up
or down button and count how mnay degrees you set the temp up or down,
you push one button once, to go to the next time period/temparature.

This seems so obvious I don't know why there aren't many versions of it.
I think I saw one of these 40 years ago, but not since then.


3) **I could move the thermostat to a different wall, but it would be
closer to the kitchen, by the doorway just on the other side of the
wall. There is some heat from the refrigerator, and I use the oven for
an hour every 2 or 3 days, and that warms the kitchen and I suppose
would turn the heat down, while I was in the kitchen and for a little
while afterwards. Of course when I'm in the kitchen, I don't care how
warm it is is in the kitchen. It would also turn the AC up when the
oven is on, and that would be a waste when for the rest of the house,
but otoh, it's only 3 hours a week, and if it were really a lot, I could
turn the AC off. The next owners may not like this, but they can buy
their own wireless thermostat if that will make them happy.