I bought one over the Thanksgiving weekend because Home Depot had it marked down and the utilities here had 150 bucks worth of rebates so it worked out to $75 for a toy I didn’t really need. I’ve now got it hooked up to the remote control in our family room so you can be lazy and play with the temperature from the couch – cute.
Unfortunately, because it needs to charge its battery it draws power off the heating circuit to the furnace. When the furnace isn’t on, it can’t charge. So, it does things like short cycle the furnace to try and charge its battery which is obviously not good. The fix is well documented on the Internet, but, I don’t have a spare wire in my thermostat cable to implement said fix. I now need to open my basement ceiling and fish a cable with additional pairs up to it in order to have the toy work right. Thanks, Brian Desmond w – 312.625.1438 | c – 312.731.3132 From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Kurt Buff Sent: Thursday, January 14, 2016 12:16 PM To: ntsysadm <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [NTSysADM] More Free Meraki Stuff Right up there with cloud managed thermostats: http://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/14/fashion/nest-thermostat-glitch-battery-dies-software-freeze.html On Thu, Jan 14, 2016 at 10:12 AM, Andrew S. Baker <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: Sign up for a cloud-managed switch. :) https://meraki.cisco.com/freeswitch BTW, I only have ~70 days left on my managed Meraki AP at home. ASB http://XeeMe.com/AndrewBaker<http://xeeme.com/AndrewBaker> Providing Virtual CIO Services (IT Operations & Information Security) for the SMB market… GPG: 1AF3 EEC3 7C3C E88E B0EF 4319 8F28 A483 A182 EF3A
