Thermostat with password code?

[markstanco 12577]

Anybody have one? Looking to get one in my kiddo side of the house. Don’t want Nest, I want one with a 4 digit passcode to change the f’ing temp.

[Handcruser 2805]

Ecobee?

[Jkwellborn 6702]

Buy a locking cover.

[DalTxHornFan 3101]

You're screwed.  The default Surly password of "Muledick" requires more than four digits.

[EE2B 1565]

Honeywell has one for about $100. Amazon has one that is made by Honeywell for about $75. It works with Ring and Alexa. We have a Honeywell that works pretty well and the App is easy enough for my wife to use so you should be ok. 😂

[rage-a-holic 4399]

On 11/19/2023 at 7:57 PM, Jkwellborn said:

Buy a locking cover.

Yeah, they're maybe $15 on amazon. 

Or you can spend over $100 on a new thermostat and re-wire it That sounds like a lot more fun.

[markstanco 12577]

15 hours ago, rage-a-holic said:

Yeah, they're maybe $15 on amazon. 

Or you can spend over $100 on a new thermostat and re-wire it That sounds like a lot more fun.

This will be my choice.  Locking cover would be frowned upon in the house. 

[luke duke 6413]

Ecobee

[Ten Bears 2481]

2 hours ago, markstanco said:

This will be my choice.  Locking cover would be frowned upon in the house. 

But you withholding the password from your alternately freezing and sweating wife and kids will be met with much glee.

[markstanco 12577]

30 minutes ago, Ten Bears said:

But you withholding the password from your alternately freezing and sweating wife and kids will be met with much glee.

Its on the kids side of the house.  

[Jkwellborn 6702]

Just hang a pair of your dirty underwear over it. Kids won’t touch it.

[Guest]

LOL at my kids even thinking about fucking with the thermostat.

Seriously.  Don't go digging in your mom's purse and don't touch the motherfucking thermostat.

Unless you're paying the lectric...

Edited November 21, 2023 by slorch

[Gene Parmesan 4007]

I didn't touch a thermostat until I was in college.  Your kids are the alphas now.  You might as well start sitting down to take a piss whenever they give you permission.

[MonkeyDoughnut 10235]

Are we talking like grown adult kids or actual kids?

[Celery Man 20950]

Someone invent a thermostat with dummy nodes/app profiles that only activate a speaker in the ducts that goes “vrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr”.

[ROFL BOX 6649]

Someone invent a thermostat that activates an insanely loud speaker to scream “stop turning the fucking thermostat down to 50 degrees!!”.

1234

[William_Cannon 86]

Ecobee?

This.

[Captainant 27669]

If you've got a "smart" thermostat - or at least one that talk to Apple Homekit - you can use automations to check the temp every so often and set it back to whatever temp is correct. So they'll see the thermostat change to whatever they set it to, and then after they walk away it changes back to whatever you've set it to

 

I've got honeywell smart thermos that came installed in my house, and the setup with homekit was surprisingly easy

[luke duke 6413]

If you've got a "smart" thermostat - or at least one that talk to Apple Homekit - you can use automations to check the temp every so often and set it back to whatever temp is correct. So they'll see the thermostat change to whatever they set it to, and then after they walk away it changes back to whatever you've set it to
 
I've got honeywell smart thermos that came installed in my house, and the setup with homekit was surprisingly easy

You can also set up a free IFTTT account and get an alert whenever the schedule is manually overridden.

[Guest]

^^^^^^^^^

I think the hotels are doing this to me.

[luke duke 6413]

Don’t even get me started about hotel thermostats.

[FartingMonk 3606]

On 11/22/2023 at 10:25 AM, Celery Man said:

Someone invent a thermostat with dummy nodes/app profiles that only activate a speaker in the ducts that goes “vrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr”.

We have those at Amazon.  It displays the temp and let's you dial it to whatever you want.  The user gets the experience that he is in control, but it only can be changed by logging into BMS. 

[T’Boo Ted Marshall 2732]

Don’t even get me started about hotel thermostats.

They are all for show.

[Superhero 8830]

On 11/19/2023 at 5:41 PM, Handcruser said:

Ecobee?

 

On 11/22/2023 at 9:16 AM, MonkeyDoughnut said:

Are we talking like grown adult kids or actual kids?

 

From one ecobee owner to another, please teach me how to lock out an adult from changing the acceptable night time temperature to 65°. kthxbye

[Handcruser 2805]

 
From one ecobee owner to another, please teach me how to lock out an adult from changing the acceptable night time temperature to 65°. kthxbye

First, you make a roux.

[Jkwellborn 6702]

 
From one ecobee owner to another, please teach me how to lock out an adult from changing the acceptable night time temperature to 65°. kthxbye

Is that too high?

[ROFL BOX 6649]

A friend posted this on FB.

[boknowstecmo 216]

Is this the dad-est post on Surly? 

[Guest]

If someone turned the heat on in our house at ambient temp of 73, it had better be one of my grandmothers reincarnate.

[ROFL BOX 6649]

https://www.instagram.com/reel/C92_zqMxjWE/?igsh=MTRmZDkzcXk2dHQ0Mw==

[Gil Bang 25958]

 

[StassneyHorn 6576]

Failing as a father if your kids touch the thermostat in your house while you’re still alive.

[TornACL 7698]

I just bought a place that has Honeywell T6 thermostats.

Do not, under any circumstances, buy one of these absolute pieces of shit. 

One month into moving in, I came home to my house at 92 degrees. The issue was the thermostat upstairs, I was told. It was replaced, everything worked fine again. 

Now, the new thermostat has decided it's always going to hold temp at 78 even if the schedule is off, even if hold is off. It just won't stop doing it. 

Every time it does this, the only option is to factory reset the thermostat.

I fucking hate this thing more than any other product I have ever owned or dealt with. 

The app is also fucking terrible. 

[ROFL BOX 6649]

My slaughter is the absolute worst with our thermostat.
Constantly jacking around with it because, hey... she doesn't pay the bills, right?
Got an "Ecobee" programmable on sale @ Home Depot.  Retails around $ 350, purchased for $ 250.
All went well for around 1 month & then my wife decided to give her the pass code.

Now i have to dig through the instructions to figure out how to change it.  Damn you, woman.  The app doesnt have anything simple & the physical device has no intuitive way to change it.
 

[thunderlounge 7832]

Sounds like the wife ain’t getting the new one, either. 

[luke duke 6413]

My slaughter is the absolute worst with our thermostat.
Constantly jacking around with it because, hey... she doesn't pay the bills, right?
Got an "Ecobee" programmable on sale @ Home Depot.  Retails around $ 350, purchased for $ 250.
All went well for around 1 month & then my wife decided to give her the pass code.

Now i have to dig through the instructions to figure out how to change it.  Damn you, woman.  The app doesnt have anything simple & the physical device has no intuitive way to change it.
 

https://www.howtogeek.com/258645/how-to-lock-your-ecobee3-thermostat-with-a-pin-code/

[ROFL BOX 6649]

2 hours ago, thunderlounge said:

Sounds like the wife ain’t getting the new one, either. 

Obviously that is easier said than accomplished because now you have an argument.

What we need is a "fake" adjustment screen that makes it APPEAR they changed the temperature but in reality, nothing happened & the real setting screen is hidden behind a secondary "Super Secret Squirrel" area.

[thunderlounge 7832]

There are ways, but very involved in doing so.