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I really appreciate mine. My big use case is that we go away for a week or two over winter sometimes and turn the house down to 55F. The radiators take quite a
by dgacmu 1y ago
I really appreciate mine. My big use case is that we go away for a week or two over winter sometimes and turn the house down to 55F. The radiators take quite a while to heat the house back up from that temperature, so I turn the temperature back up remotely the morning before we fly back.
That said, I'm quite annoyed that Google is nuking my perfectly functional thermostat, and I will be buying an Ecobee to replace it, and integrating it with home assistant.
- loloquwowndueo 1y agoSo you use smart thermostat functionality once a year? What’s wrong with wearing jackets indoors for half a day once a year :)
- bluGill 1y agothe more likely case is they just leave it on normal when they are gone - like everyone else
- throwway120385 1y agoIt's expensive to run a propane-fueled indirect-fire boiler when you're not home.
- asdff 1y ago55F is the temp I know a lot of people keep their house at in the winter. Mostly older poorly insulated homes where the bill will be absurd if they put it at 72*. Sweaters work. So do blankets.
- dgacmu 1y agoThey do! But my hands hurt typing at 55 after a while and my children get grumpy. I put a lot of insulation and air sealing into my house when I bought it and our heating bills are ... ok. About $250/month during the colder months to keep it at 65-66 in the main floor. I can't imagine 72.
- fn-mote 1y agoIn case you've never done it, let your house get into low 40's (F) and it takes days to warm up. The air gets warm fast, but your bed and the floor take a long time to warm up.
- loloquwowndueo 1y agoWhen out for some time in the winter I leave things at 14C. (Canadian winters, mind you). Doesn’t take days to warm up when we’re back. And if so - what? People live in places with slightly-above-zero temps without central heating and amazingly they manage to survive. Blankets and jackets are a thing.
- dgacmu 1y agoIt's like four-ish times per year but - nothing's wrong with it, I just prefer the house being up to temperature when I get home. 65 is more comfortable to us than 50 or 55. (Long trips we drop it to 50, long weekend trips to visit grandparent we put it to 55). Convenience and comfort are nice. We do the same thing with the air conditioning, but the AC cools the house a lot faster than the radiators heat it. But it's still nice that the house automatically transitions to away and turns off the air conditioning during the day when nobody's home.