Google will be looking at your Thermostat now

[onewhippedpuppy]

Originally Posted by pksystems

Why do you need to control your thermostat from your phone??

[dad911]

Originally Posted by onewhippedpuppy

That has mercury in it, so you should immediately remove it and put it in garbage...


I have a web-thermostat in a vacation home. Venstar. Will pay for itself in less than a year, because I can turn off the A/C when people leave.

Am tempted to put on in my house, so I can change temps with my phone from bed...

Don't care about google, or anyone else knowing about my temperature habits. IMHO bigger issue would be hackers getting to Nest servers and turning up the temperature of the world.

[Hugh R]

My wife was surprised when I emailed her from London telling her that she must have left the house A/C on one day last summer when she was at work.

[onewhippedpuppy]

Bigger question - you guys alter your household temperature that much? My wife is a stay at home mom so I don't even have that option, turning off the A/C in the summer would not go over well. But if I shut off or even turned down our A/C over the summer, it would take hours to catch up and make the temperature bearable again. Must be all you SoCal guys, where 85 is a hot summer day.

[JavaBrewer]

I continue to stop and look at these new Wifi Thermostats (fancy color Honeywell at Lowes and the Nest at HD) but frankly can't find a reason to part with that much money. Our old school programmable works great to the point we don't even touch it. If the prices ever drop to the $50 range the geek in me will probably relent.

[Hugh R]

85 maybe in Santa Monica in the Summer, Most of LA will get to 100+ in August/September. However where I live, it cools down to the low 70s almost every night during the Summer. Low 30s at night in the dead of Winter. Don't run much heat or A/C about six months of the year. My house is poorly insulated and has vaulted ceilings. I turn the HVAC off at night and when I go to work.

[Noah930]

Originally Posted by Jim Richards

Maybe they'll add a camera and start offering a new mapping feature called "Bedroom View."

Oooh. Giggity!

[JavaBrewer]

That little Harman wood pellet stove in the corner provides all the heat we can bear for our one level home. We do have a furnace but have yet to run it. AC is used for a couple of the really warm summer weeks and/or when we have a humidity spike from a tropical storm that comes up from the gulf. Otherwise our whole house fan does a great job. Similar temperature conditions as reported by Hugh.

So yeah another perk for living in a more temperate climate.

[Porsche-O-Phile]

Originally Posted by 911_Dude

I have a Nest thermostat. They rock.
Google however, is taking over the world of data. They truly want to know everything about everything.

And then sell it.

Scary times...

[red-beard]

Originally Posted by Jim Richards

Maybe they'll add a camera and start offering a new mapping feature called "Bedroom View."

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