Re:Nest Reminds Customers That Ownership Isn't What It Used ...
by TheOtherHobbes on Tuesday April 05, 2016 @10:20PM
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In the UK, many homes and older office buildings still have traditional bi-metal mechanical thermostats. For typical domestic applications they work just fine.
For finer control of room temps, people often use mechanical radiator thermostats. They work just fine too.
New electronic models are usually just a thermistor with some analogue hysteresis. They work fine as well.
I might expect something with the extras you're describing to appear in a new office building, but in the UK at least adding PID and/or some kind of learning system to a domestic thermostat is overkill.
Generally, simple solutions are less likely to go badly wrong.
That's the tragic irony of Nest. The design is great, but the added value offered by a buggy and overcomplex implementation is negative.
For finer control of room temps, people often use mechanical radiator thermostats. They work just fine too.
New electronic models are usually just a thermistor with some analogue hysteresis. They work fine as well.
I might expect something with the extras you're describing to appear in a new office building, but in the UK at least adding PID and/or some kind of learning system to a domestic thermostat is overkill.
Generally, simple solutions are less likely to go badly wrong.
That's the tragic irony of Nest. The design is great, but the added value offered by a buggy and overcomplex implementation is negative.