Well the Wifi thermostat works great . We just walked into a WARM condo tonight. The first time since we bought the place back in 2005 . At noon today I used the andoid app hit the "end away" button and that was it, 5-6 hours later the place is nice an toasty.
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AZ Nerdz: Wifi Thermostat
- Thread starter Glenn
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Just read this review of the Nest. http://forums.alpinezone.com/showth...fi-Thermostat/page2?highlight=nest+thermostat
Sounds like I'll be sticking with my basic programable thermostat for awhile.
Sounds like I'll be sticking with my basic programable thermostat for awhile.
skiNEwhere
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I bought the Honeywell RTH6580WF wifi thermostat a few months ago for about $110 (Can't remember exact price). It's not pretty like the nest thermostat, but it gets the job done and beats the hell out of the old mercury thermostat I had.
The only tricky part of the installation was the C-wire, which provides power to the unit. If you have an old mercury thermostat, there may not be one in the wall when you take it off and you'll have to run a wire to your furnace. Thankfully I have a crawl space which made it relatively easy.
The only tricky part of the installation was the C-wire, which provides power to the unit. If you have an old mercury thermostat, there may not be one in the wall when you take it off and you'll have to run a wire to your furnace. Thankfully I have a crawl space which made it relatively easy.
drjeff
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We discovered the old mercury thermostat, lack of a c-wire issue a couple of years ago when my wife and I wanted to install a wireless thermostat in our place in VT.
unfortunately we don't have an easy access situation between our main thermostat and our furnace
Even super handy Glenn upon seeing our situation was like "oh, you're screwed!" (And that was before I started handing him his beloved PBR tallboy cans! :beer: )The next time my wife and I need an electrician for some renovation work, we'll have him/her run a c-wire, until then we get up to VT, open the place up, turn up the thermostats, quickly unpack the car and then go out to dinner while the place warms up.
1st world problem for sure
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I have two nests and like them a lot. They were only 100 each after rebate. They were on sale and the older model.
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Do you think the guy wasn't using it right or had a bad one? I'd hate to go on a trip and come back to frozen pipes.
The link didn't work for me could you find it again?
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I've never had that problem thankfully. It's always worked well for me. Surprisingly the reviews on Amazon and such are pretty overwhelmingly positive. It seems this guy was sort of screwed.
My Vt condo thermostat didn't have the C-wire so I just ran a wire to a wall-wort transformer plugged into a wall outlet nearby. Yes there is a wire runnign down the wall but at our place the thermostat was near a door so I ran the wire down the door trim. We have wood walls so snaking wires in the wall is a real pain.
We discovered the old mercury thermostat, lack of a c-wire issue a couple of years ago when my wife and I wanted to install a wireless thermostat in our place in VT.
unfortunately we don't have an easy access situation between our main thermostat and our furnace
The next time my wife and I need an electrician for some renovation work, we'll have him/her run a c-wire, until then we get up to VT, open the place up, turn up the thermostats, quickly unpack the car and then go out to dinner while the place warms up.
1st world problem for sure
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After a few PBRs, I may be able to run a C-Wire for you. :lol:
drjeff
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Sounds like a job that requires an appearance from "Gordon"
And maybe some video of a random kid pretending to approve of Jaeger bombs endorsed by our favorite-o-witz Mount Snow "character" :lol: Come to think of it, I should probably just buy us t-shirts like this ahead of time!
Not Sure
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Hello Gents
Another sugestion to the No "C" problem.
Buy a Wifi capable thermostat with a remote sensor, mount your thermostat on your heating unit and find the "C " side of the transformer.
remove the old t-stat and install the remote in it's place and program thermostat accordingly or buy a wireless remote.
Hope this helps
http://www.networkthermostat.com/thermostat/ge22-wifi
Another sugestion to the No "C" problem.
Buy a Wifi capable thermostat with a remote sensor, mount your thermostat on your heating unit and find the "C " side of the transformer.
remove the old t-stat and install the remote in it's place and program thermostat accordingly or buy a wireless remote.
Hope this helps
http://www.networkthermostat.com/thermostat/ge22-wifi
Looks like he's not alone: http://techcrunch.com/2014/01/06/nest-4-0-firmware-battery-problems/?source=gravity
Geoff
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...which is why the only thing I will own is old school round Honeywell analog thermostats. It's also why I bought an extremely low-tech 81%-efficient Peerless boiler four years ago instead of a very complex high efficiency boiler. Other than electronic start instead of a pilot light, it's a clone of the 1986 Peerless boiler in my Vermont place.
Google just bought nest. http://finance.fortune.cnn.com/2014/01/13/tony-fadell-why-i-sold-nest-to-google/?iid=Lead
ctenidae
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$3.2B for a company with only 2 products, both of them in highly commoditized categories. Clearly, Google is making a bet on the internet of things, and these guys have a system that works.
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