Yeah, I know, GADS!
Honestly, I am pretty sure that the thermostat it replaced was hanging on a tree long before the house was built. Very manual and surprisingly unintuitive.
Not that it’s smart descendant is much more intuitive, there has been a learning curve. Starting from day one when I realized that it was so new that the company hadn’t even gotten to put up an online manual yet. The installer warned me that it was a demo he’d been given and we agreed on it being used because 1) He already had it. 2) Due to the smartening of the whole fricking HVAC universe, anything else he could get at the time would be obsolete before he could wire it in to place.
My new thermostat and I have become fast friends. I really like it and it’s become indispensable for me. Because of sensors built into the HVAC system and it’s remote pods scattered around the house, it has the most accurate weather forecasts on it of any of the 90 or so other forecasts available on every other digital device I have access to here. Including the car. Also, it’s got a feature where a constant temperature can be set where the thermostat switches between heat, cooling, and dehumidifier to maintain the comfort setting. Really nice during the spring and fall periods of variable conditions. I only had to hear the groaning and popping of the house once I started using it to know that it’s been missing. Gee, now all of the doors and windows open and close fully year around! It’s got an app which allows me to check in with it from any point on the globe where there is a strong enough signal. Although, I am eternally forgetting that it has an app. I could if I wanted to.
Even though I am old school, I believe that having a deep relationship with a thermostat is worth the effort now that I know better.
Don’t get me started on my smart garage door opener, tho.
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