Just The News: At least one company is reportedly turning up Texas consumers’ digital “smart thermometers” remotely during the state’s ongoing heat spike in an effort to conserve energy. more
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“Look at me…I am the captain now”
Give em an inch…
“Fair well and adieu to ye fair Spanish ladies”
Why on God’s Green earth would you install somthing in you house that can be controlled remotely by some stranger?? the first thing I would do is rip it oun and go buy a dumb one!
Time to change out that smart thermostat for a dumb one. HA! I know someone in TX who has to have the latest electronic gadgets. He bragged about his Smart thermostat and how he can control the temp of his house from anywhere. Well, looks like those in charge can override your desires.
It’s been triple digits here in Las Vegas for a week.
AC is a pumpin!
I ran a 5k yesterday when it was 114.
“It’s a dry heat…”
Many utilities offer a discount to install these.
They will throttle users during peak demand.
Like I said, give em an inch…
@Loco: What’s the humidity? It was 11 here yesterday in N. CA. As you say, it’s a dry heat! I’ll take dry heat over humidity any day.
Color me shocked,, shocked I tell you..that there’s gambling going on…, aka, Karen’s at the Nest controls..
The electric company charges a utility delivery charge for line maintenance and upkeep, it follows the consumer is due an utility control device refund for equipment access and usage. $100 per adjustment is a good starting point.
Goldenfoxx, it will be 114 today at 7% humidity and a 10 UV index.
That said, the sun here doesn’t hold a candle to the Florida sun.
I can go shirtless all day and get sun but not burn here.
In Florida I would need medical attention.
No thermostats in my house. We run a swamp cooler – works like a charm in dry heat. Yesterday it reached 110 outside, inside our house it got up to 74 inside. Most everyone here runs a swamp cooler, cheap to run, and not many moving parts to fix. Replaced the water pump for around $30, get 3 years out of it and replace it. These coolers do not work in high humidity locations. In the next 2 weeks I see nothing in the forecast under 100.
I am familiar with those swamp coolers.
Used them to pre-chill gasoline for vapor recovery systems in Kuwait and Oman.
Of course evaporation is key for their function.
Kind of like the human body…
@Loco: I was in a hospital building yesterday visiting someone and it was freezing in the building. When I got out the front door I was never so glad for the heat….it was over 100 out. I don’t like the cold – never liked it. It was a very short visit…..
I’ve been back in AR for a few weeks and the humidity here is like a heavy blanket. In the mornings, it’s so humid, there’s a mist in the air that obscures or fuzzes out distant trees and hills. Clouds of it hover over the state park down the road where the headwaters of the Big Spring River bubble up.
Throw in temps in the upper 90s and low 100s and by mid afternoon, working out side, I am soaked. I must drink over a gallon+ of water a day.
Amazing difference between here and my new digs on the Olympic Peninsula.
It’s called IoT.
Internet of Things – and every globalcorp is gearing up for it. I work for an insurance company (mostly industrial) and we’ve been working it for 5 years now. Basically, all your smart devices are on the internet at all times and they data log everything. Meta data up the ass which is being compiled, collated and packaged back to you as a product. They are selling you back your own information.
Specifically tailored to you.
Yes anon, IoT will have your refrigerator ordering groceries and your dishwasher reporting you to the feds for too much water usage.
Seriously, there is a chip shortage and yet they are putting them in everything.
I rented a house in CO about 5 years ago that had this type of meter installed and they would not let me opt out even though it was under my own account. It would have an alert warning you and in the winter it would keep the house at 60 and summer 88 a few times a month. This BS actually has transferred on homes being sold so watch out,
I do have a smart thermostat for one reason only, to control my humidifier. It was a pain in the ass to manually set it in the crawl space constantly and still get it wrong and have roof rafters rot. It’s behind a firewall and VPN, so hopefully I’m safe, it’s very convenient for my house.
My sous vide has blueteeth and weefees with an app to control it. Its only function is to set the temperature of a water bath. Now that’s retarded. Never setup the smart features on it.
LocoBlancoSaltine June 20, 2021 at 10:35 am
I am familiar with those swamp coolers.
Used them to pre-chill gasoline for vapor recovery systems in Kuwait and Oman.
Of course evaporation is key for their function.
Kind of like the human body…
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They work like a charm IF you have windows/doors cracked, that’s how they’re designed to work. Some people don’t know to crack a window or door when the cooler is operating. Thus their house ends up with very high humidity in their house. Some don’t understand the science behind the technology. The lower the humidity outside the better they work. Pretty basic IMHO.
talented devices, them thermomostats are these days
don’t forget the thermostat in georgia that was communicating with the dominion ballot counting machines. They done buried that right good.
around here we open windows when it is hot, and toss another log on the fire when it is cold.
Before AC in the SoCal desert they built one or two man quonset type shelters which they covered with burlap bags which were kept wet. In other places they just dug holes in the ground to escape the heat. It may be dry heat but it can still kill you.
Probably somebody in a building somewhere throttling your air conditioning why they enjoy the coolness of theirs?
Tech Companies?
https://newtube.app/user/Marooned/0PEIgTL
Moron’s subscribe to shit like this.
And by law here in the whole state of California, you don’t get a choice about having a Smart meter on your electrical box, or gas line. And assholes still come around(claiming not being paid by PG&E) tying to sell you a bunch of free solar shit, and a promise you’ll save 40%.
I have been a HVAC tech for 34 years. NEST, ECOBEE, & other “Smart” systems as well as the Utility “throttling” controls cause quite a few nuisance or unnecessary service calls.
Just AVOID, AVOID, AVOID.
Whoa! Did not see that coming!
“Who keeps turning the damn heat on?!?”
-Every Dad in Texas