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My smart thermostat decided it was 90 degrees in my house last night.
The Nest in my living room went haywire around 2 AM and cranked the AC down to 60. Woke up freezing. I had to do a hard reset by pulling it off the wall for 30 seconds, which fixed it. Is it better to just use a basic programmable thermostat for reliability, or stick with the smart features and hope updates fix the bugs?
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the_tara17d ago
That 20% savings @murray.cole mentioned is huge, but a thermostat you can't trust is worse than a basic one. I'd rather have a dumb thermostat that just works on schedule than wake up in a freezer because of a bad update. Maybe the fix is using smart features only for learning your schedule, then locking it so it can't make wild changes overnight.
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