Smart thermostats are really important for managing heat pumps efficiently. Especially when they’re multistage. I mean, not necessarily that they have to be always online, but they do benefit a lot from more smarts than the basic thermostats of the past.
How does the “smarts” help? All a thermostat needs to call for multistage would be is statistical analysis for heat/cool deltas and resist, which offline thermostats have been doing for a while.
All the “savings” my “smart” thermostat reports is because I have set-backs, which I had with my old model which also supported multistage heat pumps. The thermostat in question is mind-bogglingly stupid when it comes to handling time of use rates.
So, overall, not very impressed. Happily, I can manage it with Homeassistant.
So far I’ve mostly avoided the whole “things that don’t need to be on the Internet” situation.
Non smart TV (well that period when they started adding smart features but they’re all out of date now so not even connected to the Internet)
All kitchen stuff is just kitchen stuff. No Internet.
Car is still offline.
Only real exception is smart thermostat, and that’s just because when the boiler was installed that’s what they put in.
Smart thermostats are really important for managing heat pumps efficiently. Especially when they’re multistage. I mean, not necessarily that they have to be always online, but they do benefit a lot from more smarts than the basic thermostats of the past.
How does the “smarts” help? All a thermostat needs to call for multistage would be is statistical analysis for heat/cool deltas and resist, which offline thermostats have been doing for a while.
All the “savings” my “smart” thermostat reports is because I have set-backs, which I had with my old model which also supported multistage heat pumps. The thermostat in question is mind-bogglingly stupid when it comes to handling time of use rates.
So, overall, not very impressed. Happily, I can manage it with Homeassistant.