What Is It Like To Be A Thermostat?

Re:What Is It Like To Be A Thermostat? by upghost on Monday December 30, 2024 @09:26AM (#42549518)

Does anyone know of a smart thermostat that actually has this function? Every thermostat I've looked for has "heat mode" where it decides if it should be blasting heat or not, and "cool mode", where it decides it should be blasting the AC or not. I have not found the mythical smart thermostat that does the job of "keep the temperature around here" +/- a few degrees.

I live in an area where its cold at night and hot during the day and I am bad at remembering to change the thermostat from mode to mode and haven't found a programmable IOT thermostat I can write a script for, recommendations welcome!

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Re:What Is It Like To Be A Thermostat? by ajoberstar on Monday December 30, 2024 @09:31AM (#42549563)

Nest thermostats have a heat and cool mode where you have setpoints for each. On older ones there was a limit on how close the two could be set.

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Re:What Is It Like To Be A Thermostat? by ewhanley on Monday December 30, 2024 @10:18AM (#42550013)

Ecobee thermostats can run in dual heat/cool mode

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Re:What Is It Like To Be A Thermostat? by toast0 on Monday December 30, 2024 @10:10PM (#42556056)

Echoing the other responses, Nest and Ecobee both have this feature, and I think it may have been on the Sensi as well, but I only had a furnace then. Some basic thermostats can do this too.

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Re:What Is It Like To Be A Thermostat? by rcxdude on Wednesday January 01, 2025 @08:08AM (#42565794)

It tends to be tricky to do this without wasting a lot of power, most thermostat auto modes have a pretty wide spread of maximum and minimum temperature because otherwise you run the risk of oscillating between using energy to heat and using energy to remove the heat you've just added. It can be done care and tuning, but the average home HVAC setup is not designed or installed with care.

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