Which can be done by storing the settings on a mobile phone app and then using that to reprogramme the smart controller on a day by day basis. The only difference is that the programme detail is stored in an app on the phone. Much like the way some IoT smart lights work.
Most people find CH "advance" or "party mode" as someone else suggested sufficient to put it into a dormant state when they go out for the day. It is only a problem if your CH controller is in the loft.
Yes, roughly. A lot of the thermostats nowadays seem to be basically the same old, just with a fancier display compared to the calculator screen and dead-flesh rubber buttons of yesteryear.
Some of the ones with apps just give you a nicer way to set up the 5+2 programs that your old programmer would do - the app is just a different way to enter them rather than pressing the Next key 57,000 times. If you don't have the app it reverts to the traditional 5+2.
My hope is that some of the app ones allow you to make a custom control panel with those buttons. It may be still a 5+2 programmer at the end of the day but the control panel overrides it the way you want. It seems plausible they might do this in the app (which already has a rich UI attached to a touchscreen) then the tiny 2" touchscreen that is on the actual thermostat.
I have no idea which if any of the 'smart' thermostats do this, because the marketing is full of:
- geofencing, turning on the heat when you're a mile from home/getting off the train/etc
- 'learning' your habits (ie getting them wrong, because many people's habits aren't sufficiently regular)
which I suspect a lot of people don't actually want. Hence I think you need to watch some videos to see what they can do in real life.
(and, if your house is well insulated, starting the heating an hour early is no big deal as it'll retain the heat)
Another dishonourable mention... My Lyric has a touchscreen, but it's not a dot matrix. It's a segmented LCD like on an old VCR, with starburst segmented parts for displaying characters and hard-drawn onscreen buttons that you can touch. It's like a computer UI designed by a calculator company. There's no way you could do what you wanted on that screen, because the screen is all fixed function.
Theo
We do that with a plain old wireless programmable thermostats. As I think I've mentioned before, I don't understand why almost everyone screws them to the wall when they offer a portable way to vary times/temperatures short of a networked solution.
But a pi solution is much more fun.
> As IWell my wireless thermostat is not part of my time/programmer.
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I think they do.
I've switched all of that off on the Hive. And the pre-emptive switch off (something to do with latent heat) - I had to phone them to disable that.
Yep. Or read the manual. The biggest drawback for me is that I don't especially like using the phone to control it - needs must I suppose :-) But in fairness it has simple controls on the stat and it does respond 'smartly' to Alexa etc.
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