RE: Talking/accessible thermostats

2018-08-31 Thread Sieghard Weitzel 
I think some of these smart thermostats are overpriced and are trying to be too 
smart. This is why I like the Honeywell Lyric T5, it’s reasonable, it offers a 
schedule of course but it doesn’t pretend to do anything else like “learn”. 
Granted, Honeywell has the “Round” thermostat which I think also does this and 
which also costs more, for me spending $300 for a thermostat is just overkill 
and I bet a lot of people use a thermostat like my wife and I, we turn it up 
when we want it warmer and down when it’s too warm. Our schedules are way too 
irregular for a schedule and the beauty of these connected thermostats is that 
you can turn the temperature up or down from anywhere so there is not as much 
of a reason to program a schedule so it's warm when you come home, simply tell 
it to go up to whatever temperature you want 20 or 30 minutes before you get 
home and it will be warm when you get there.
I admit that I do use a schedule at my retail store, but that is easy since we 
open at 9 AM every day and close at 6 PM so getting the thermostat to turn on 
at 8:30 AM and off at 5:30 PM is easy and then on Sundays when we are closed we 
just keep it cool. I would rather spend $150 or there abouts and have a 
thermostat which works well with SIRI and Alexa as the Hoeywell does than to 
spend double just so my thermostat tries to learn what I want but it doesn’t 
work when I’m at home and tell Alexa to make it 2 degrees warmer.

Best regards,
Sieghard

From: viphone@googlegroups.com  On Behalf Of Tom Rash
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I have the Nest, which works great with the iPhone, but not 100 percent 
accessible with Alexa.


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Sent: Thursday, August 30, 2018 3:41 PM
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Hello,

Not sure if this topic has been discussed before. I am in need of purchasing a 
replacement thermostat and looking for feedback from others of what people are 
using. The VIP 1007 bit the dust and I am looking for different options 
including, but not limited to talking thermostats. I know there are smart ones 
out there with Alexa and IOS, but I would like to know how accessible they are.

Thanks in advance,
Jeff


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RE: Talking/accessible thermostats

2018-08-31 Thread Tom Rash 
I have the Nest, which works great with the iPhone, but not 100 percent 
accessible with Alexa.

 

 

From: viphone@googlegroups.com  On Behalf Of Jeff 
Clark
Sent: Thursday, August 30, 2018 3:41 PM
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Subject: Talking/accessible thermostats

 

Hello,

 

Not sure if this topic has been discussed before. I am in need of purchasing a 
replacement thermostat and looking for feedback from others of what people are 
using. The VIP 1007 bit the dust and I am looking for different options 
including, but not limited to talking thermostats. I know there are smart ones 
out there with Alexa and IOS, but I would like to know how accessible they are. 

 

Thanks in advance,

Jeff

 

 

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RE: Talking/accessible thermostats

2018-08-30 Thread Sieghard Weitzel 
Without knowing the country I would say to take a look at the Honeywell Lyric 
line of WiFi smart thermostats. Here in North America the T5 is quite 
reasonable in price and it works well and has a very accessible app, it is both 
Apple Home Kit and Alexa capable so you can use either SIRI or Alexa to tell it 
to raise the temperature or lower it or set it to a certain number of degrees 
etc.


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Sent: Thursday, August 30, 2018 7:47 PM
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This topic was covered earlier. check the archives. the options depend
on your country. North America uses different electrical standards
than Europe.  You do not say for some reason your country so it is
impossible to respond to your question directly.


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On 8/30/18, Jeff Clark  wrote:
> Hello,
>
>
>
> Not sure if this topic has been discussed before. I am in need of
> purchasing
> a replacement thermostat and looking for feedback from others of what
> people
> are using. The VIP 1007 bit the dust and I am looking for different options
> including, but not limited to talking thermostats. I know there are smart
> ones out there with Alexa and IOS, but I would like to know how accessible
> they are.
>
>
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> Jeff
>
>
>
>
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Re: Talking/accessible thermostats

2018-08-30 Thread Kelly Pierce 
This topic was covered earlier. check the archives. the options depend
on your country. North America uses different electrical standards
than Europe.  You do not say for some reason your country so it is
impossible to respond to your question directly.


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On 8/30/18, Jeff Clark  wrote:
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>
>
>
> Not sure if this topic has been discussed before. I am in need of
> purchasing
> a replacement thermostat and looking for feedback from others of what
> people
> are using. The VIP 1007 bit the dust and I am looking for different options
> including, but not limited to talking thermostats. I know there are smart
> ones out there with Alexa and IOS, but I would like to know how accessible
> they are.
>
>
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> Jeff
>
>
>
>
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