hey Paul what do you have there a programmable thermostat actually Brian
this is a smart thermostat and these have some advantages over your
old-fashioned programmable thermostats and in fact a lot of advantages and
we're going to talk about that hi welcome today handy guys and we want to
talk about this this new thing it's been around a couple years ago a years or so
but several brands of smart thermostats and one of the things I really like
about them Brian is that you don't have to fiddle with some device and figure
out how to program it every season they change the seasons from hot to cold you
can pull out your smart phone and program these things or set them up with
an app and some of them also Paul will have sensors so that you can put sensors
in different rooms of your house so one thermostat is going to read the
temperature in multiple locations that's a key feature that I like exactly I have
a sensor right here so you just place this in a room say that room you use
often and you can program it if you will or set up when you're smart app that
whatever I'm in that room set the temperature for the house and a certain
temperature so when you come home from work maybe and go into your family room
watch the news right you can have it automatically change the temperature
the other cool thing Brian that I like is you can use voice assistance to set
the temperature or change the temperature on these devices right a lot
of people have these home help speakers that you can talk to you can ask those
speakers to adjust your temperature for you or some of them even have that
technology built right into the thermostat that's right and in addition
you know we talked about our smart phone but not only can I use it to set the
device up to change it but remember if I have a my smart phone I can use that
when I'm away from the house so for instance maybe I'm coming home from
vacation I'm an hour away I want to change they said that you know air
conditioning to cool the house before I get home I can do that now through my
smart app that's right so you can just go in there and say I'll be home in an
hour make sure it's 70 degrees or whatever
time you want and in fact with the smart app
I can tell it hey I'll be on vacation during this week please turn down the
air conditioning and automatically turn it up the day I get back with these
remote sensors though they can tell or they can sense in the thermostat as well
when you're home and away but you can also force it to do that so instead of
going into your app and saying I'll be home in an hour you can set up what they
call a geofence so that's a really geeky term but what it means is whenever you
get within so many miles that you can predetermine from your home it'll turn
your heating or cooling on exactly so with the old programmable thermostats
you had to set a specific time to turn the heat off up or down or the air
conditioner up or down now you can set it hey you know maybe your commute is at
the same time every day but when you you get within a distance of your house
okay now you make the change that's right so it can be ready for you alright
the other thing I really like about these is that you know at the end every
month or every couple months if you want a lot of these products provide
reporting on energy savings so you can get an idea of how much savings you
really get by changing the temperature up and down and in fact they may even
give you recommendations on certain changes you can make to improve upon
that that's a very cool feature Paul and it's all web-based so you don't need any
special tools you can just open up a web page and you'll see all of your your
history right there and there's a couple other cool features Brian these aren't
critical but I really like them one is you have a great readout it's just very
simple if you just want to make a simple change on this particular model it's
easy to do and you know there's no you know weird buttons or anything like that
it's very touch interface the other thing Brian is you know this particular
model you you know if you're walking by it you want to see what the weather is
for today you can get the weather for today yes very big enough for a week so
those are cool little things so Brian there are some disadvantages to a system
like this and that is that it's not just a simple old-fashioned thermostat you
actually have to connect it to your Wi-Fi you got to get it talking to your
smart phone app so it takes a little bit of sophistication to get it up into this
might not be ideal for someone who's not technically savvy
perhaps I mean it's not terribly difficult but it it could be a little
bit of a challenge the other thing is that it's certainly going to be more
expensive yes then an old fashioned even some of the programmable thermostats is
going to be cost more sure and if you want to have moldable room sensors each
room sensor yes it's going to be an additional cost right that can add up
yeah they can get expensive you may need some additional wiring to hook it up you
have you may have to consult a professional to determine if you have
the proper wiring from your HVAC system to the thermostat itself that's right
and it's not going to work with like a pure electric system for example you're
gonna need something different for that okay so the other thing is it's connects
to your Wi-Fi that's how it talks to your smart phone app that's how you can
make changes when you're on vacation so there's another system that you have to
have in your house I know most people or many people have Wi-Fi these days but
still it's reliant on that to work for your thermal all of your features so if
you don't have Wi-Fi in your house just rule this out all together I guess well
it'll still work it'll set your Heat you know your air conditioning up and down
but now it's a traditional thermostat that cost more than the traditional
thermostat you wanted talking to your Wi-Fi so you have all the other features
now this is a little mini computer isn't it Paul
yes it kind of is and as a result you're gonna want to make sure you set it up
for periodic updates to guard against any kind of attacks or hacking and to
help prevent that so set it so that it auto updates and in fact the software
that comes with these is very good and they do actively updated itself so that
this thing is protected its secure yeah good so those are just some of the
disadvantages I've personally obviously I have it set up here I think that the
advantages outweigh the disadvantages and I but it you know something you want
to consider when purchasing an item like this so there you have it these are
smart thermostats big difference from your you know your father's programmable
thermostat or something like that we didn't even have programming we just had
a little brass colored thing with a ring you turned it left and right that's
right so these are cool so check them out and thanks for watching the handy
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