“Monitoring accurately the temperature in your home is definitely one of the best way to save on your energy bill. At the same time you want to feel well in a warm home during winter time.
My current thermostat only allows a static programmation:
I can define a day temperature (around 19/20 to not heat too much) and a night (or no one at home) temperature (16) For each weekday, I can define time range to apply day temperature and time range to apply night temperature) Additionally, I can manually adjust the temperature that will be taken in account until the next time range is reachedNot so bad but
I cannot monitor the temperature remotely: specially when coming from vacation, I am not able to warm the home before we arrive. I cannot stop heating automatically when there is no one at home. I cannot take in account other parameters that impacts home temperature like sunshine during the day (warming home), winds (cooling home)… I cannot have control on temperature set by my wife, overheating all day at 25C …”