I recently purchased a small studio flat and thought that it is the perfect place to make a smart home since I will only need to control a few things.
I have already ordered my light switches and am still contemplating my blinds.
But my biggest concern is my airconditioning as I stay in the desert and it becomes quite unbearable during summer I normally left the AC on the whole day in my rental apartment.
But since this AC works on electricity only I figured I wanted to make it smart and only want it to cool a 15 minutes before I normally arrive back home.
My thermostat though is a communicating one and so far the only one I am seeing is the Lennox iComfort S30, but I don’t know if it is compatible with what I currently have. The videos I looked at said the companies should be sister companies for compatibility but I couldn’t find out how to check that.
This is my current thermostat
Has anyone else tried to do something similar?
Edit: This is what is on top of the roof of the apartments and each has 1 or more of these
I did do this when I just moved in, but my current unit still made the apartment much too cold even when I set it to be 26 degrees C/ 80ish degrees Fahrenheit. It sets the cooling to the lowest setting, but it doesn’t switch it off even if it is way lower than the setting.
But if my new controller can keep the temperature steady, I will do as you suggest. Thank you
It is one of the reasons I wanted to change the controller
If you find something that works, please update this. I've been on the lookout for a smarter thermostat as well and coming up short in what I wanted