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I am and could, but can't make the time for the inevitable support issues that pop up. If there's a COTS system available, I'd rather spend my time in the moun

• bhaney 3y ago
  > the inevitable support issues that pop up They may not be as inevitable as you think. I would consider my thermostat to be pretty casually slapped together with no professionalism whatsoever, and yet I've never once had it just randomly stop working in the 4 years I've been using it. I have broken it by my own actions while hacking on it of course, but if I don't want to spend time fixing it, then I just don't mess with it in the first place and it keeps chugging along. I do keep my old "normal" thermostat around as a backup, and I've reinstalled it once when I had an HVAC technician over because I assumed he'd need to use the thermostat at some point and I didn't want to freak him out. I've never needed to use it otherwise, but it's always there to keep me from freezing in case my custom one randomly explodes and I don't have the time or desire to fix it. If you do end up wanting to build your own, I documented a lot of my original build [1]. It's more of a journal of figuring out the design and build process rather than a guide, but I think it does a decent job of showcasing how straightforward it is to build one, and there's a schematic and link to the firmware source code at the bottom. [1] https://blog.benhaney.com/2019/03/26/building-a-thermostat https://blog.benhaney.com/2019/03/26/building-a-thermostat
  • ISL 3y ago
    Very cool. Thanks!