On Thu, Sep 15, 2016 at 09:32:53AM -0700, Chuck Guzis wrote: > On 09/15/2016 07:54 AM, tony duell wrote: > > > My thermostat contains about 2 dozen parts, even if you count every > > nut , bolt, and washer. It does the job and is not hard to understand > > or repair if/when it needs it. > > > > Quite why I would want a thermostat with presumably several million > > components, running a multi-user operating system is, to be honest, > > beyond me.
I guess people will use those to run some kind of voip (this of course requires a microphone in thermostat) so they can chat with friends on other continent while sitting in a basement or under kitchen sink. Very, very practical and innovative, trust me. > So a new 2-wire thermostat was employed instead (at the installer's > expense) and it has WiFi, Web and Bluetooth connectivity as part of > the package. Fortunately, all of the aforementioned can be disabled > via appropriate selection on the (color) LCD graphic touchscreen. I would check, even with the help of a smartphone's sensors, what it shows when you enable thermo-blue-tooth-why-fi and what when you disable them. BTW, do you have bt keyboard in your house? Your neighbour(s)? -- Regards, Tomasz Rola -- ** A C programmer asked whether computer had Buddha's nature. ** ** As the answer, master did "rm -rif" on the programmer's home ** ** directory. And then the C programmer became enlightened... ** ** ** ** Tomasz Rola mailto:tomasz_r...@bigfoot.com **