Re: "manually adjust thermostats"
> Pressing a button on it to increase or decrease the temperature is so inconvenient. I have to get off my ass and physically touch the control panel.
I realise most people follow a fairly regular routine, but in my case I may be away for months and literally leave in the summer and come back to a white landscape at four o'clock in the morning. And a very cold house.
I may also be leaving at a moment's notice with what I'm wearing plus a plane ticket.
A friend of mine in the same situation has a home automation solution, but it goes through her own server, not someone else's cloud. For me I just get my neighbour to turn on/off the heating, or else I slide into my sleeping bag for the first night, but the home automation thing is certainly a nice convenient touch. It's just the going through someone else's servers that's boneheaded (having no failback plans is pretty high on the list too).
Biting the hand that feeds IT
