Quote:
Originally Posted by Paperbackstash
I'd love to be able to set my window air unit in my bedroom to start cooling at a certain time before bed with a routine - I always mean to do it, but forget to. And some people have anxiety they'll forget when leaving the house...
|
I handle this with a setback thermostat, it supports 4 temperature changes per 24 hour period. But our routines were predictable when I worked (before retirement) so a regular setback thermostat with a recurring schedule worked for us. A remote control thermostat might be more useful for people with irregular schedules though, or people that move around between multiple properties. In our particular household, a remote control thermostat would be more like a video game with the two contestants being me and my wife on our smart phones. That poor thermostat would be so confused. Nowadays, somebody is always home, so our multi-period setback thermostat only uses two: 7am and 10pm switchpoints.