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Korhaka@sopuli.xyz 9 hours agoDo you leave work at different times each day and week that you don’t know about until you are at work?
Unless you do, a regular programmable thermostat would be fine.
Grostleton@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 hours ago
This might surprise you, but some people work jobs with alternating schedules.
I’d imagine it’s pretty annoying to reprogram the thermostat every other week or w/e.
Korhaka@sopuli.xyz 6 hours ago
And it isn’t annoying to have to log into your thermostat every day?
rumschlumpel@feddit.org 6 hours ago
goal post moving …
Korhaka@sopuli.xyz 5 hours ago
Either way you need to interact with your thermostat to change it, why add a vulnerability to it that the company may break it at some point?
Grostleton@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 hours ago
Log in every day? Many, if not most, smart thermostat apps have location based features to automatically handle the use case OP had mentioned. You can set it up one time and pretty much never need to interact with it again.
krakenx@lemmy.world 1 hour ago
The smart thermostat that came with my house has that “feature” and I hate it. If I don’t walk past the thermostat for a few hours, it assumes I’m not home and then lets the house turn into an icebox.
Korhaka@sopuli.xyz 3 hours ago
So your thermostat is tracking your location by GPS to know when to turn on?
I mean, I guess at least I can see how someone might benefit from it I suppose. I certainly don’t want that though.