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Or just stop insisting you must be able to control thermostat remotely. I'm pretty sure if I had smart stuff at home, I'd be tempted to check it all the time.
by rini17 5y ago
Or just stop insisting you must be able to control thermostat remotely.
I'm pretty sure if I had smart stuff at home, I'd be tempted to check it all the time. Better avoid that.
- Semaphor 5y agoI generally call any IoT tool that depends on a third-party-service dumb, as nothing you have is smart, the smarts are at the vendor.
- ajsnigrutin 5y agoHomeassistant has gone a long way to make stuff smart, and the maintenance windows are usually when you are at home, on your PC, doing the maintenance yoursef :)
- Semaphor 5y agoI use HA as well. But there are integrations that just wrap/connect a vendor API, which is a no-go for me. Maintenance window is the morning during coffee, before my wife wakes up :D
- ajsnigrutin 5y agoyeah.. it takes some googling, but a few devices (eg. sonoff plugs) can be flashed with tasmota, and some (mostly zigbee) can be used directly with a usb dongle and zigbee2mqtt, without any vendor-based cloud service (eg. tuya valves for radiators, ikea bulbs, sensors,...). But yeah, either way, you have to do research before you buy the device :)
- rcthompson 5y agoIf you're tempted to check it all the time, that really means it's not "smart" enough for you to actually trust it (which is probably true of nearly all "smart" tech for today).
- rob74 5y agoThe dumbest thing about "smart" thermostats are the batteries. My previous company had some in the office, and after a few times of coming to the office on Monday and being confronted with tropical temperatures because the batteries in one of the thermostats had gone empty over the weekend and it had defaulted to "open", I banished any thought of getting these at home...