Re: Wireless thermostat

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On Fri, 10 Mar 2006 11:33:09 -0500, mm <NOPSAMmm2005@xxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

>On 9 Mar 2006 21:08:20 -0800, aaronfude@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
>
>>Hi,
>>
>>I work 30 min away from home and have to stay at work unpredictably
>>long.
>>
>>Is there such a thing as a wireless thermostat - in the sense that I
>>can login to it and turn the heat on as I'm leaving work. (There are
>>wireless cameras, why not a wireless thermostat?)
>
>Yes, but the words you want to search on are remote controlled, or
>something like that, not wireless.  They have them that work with the
>internet and those that work with the telephone.
>
>
>If you have to leave the computer on all day long, it might cost as
>much as keepign the heat on low, with a setback thermostat to turn it
>up.
>
>How does one figure that.  200 Watt power supply (now theyt're bigger)
>times 10 hours equals 2 KwH = 25cents, going up to 44cents in June
>here.
>
>400 watt power supply =88 cents a day.  not so much but for 250 work
>days that's about 220 dollars a year, plus wear on the harddrive. :)
>>
>>Many thanks in advance!
>>
>>Aaron Fude


Do they make thermostats that have remote controls too?
That is something I always wished they made.  It would be so nice to
wake up in the morning during the winter, grab a remote next to my bed
and turn up the heat BEFORE I get out of bed.  Right now, it's get out
of bed, run to the thermostat, turn up the heat and rush back to bed
shivvering.  A programmable thermostat solves this problem for people
that get up at exactly the same time each day, but for those who are
on changing schedules, or no schedule at all, they are useless in this
regard.  I was even going to move the thermostat once, so it was next
to my bed, but I decided that would not work because the bedroom is on
the end of the house, and it would be on an exterior wall.  Both of
these are WRONG, since they should always be in the center of the
house and on an interior wall (for best heating control).
A remote would be so nice.

Last summer I saw a window fan at a store that had a remote.  I
thought that was pretty useless.  Like how lazy can a person be.  But
for a thermostat it would be perfect.

Mark