I am hooked on this whole automatiom thing.
The next thing I want to do is to add more functionallity to my thermostat. Currently we have not so smart thermostat with limited programming. I does what i want it to do, but i want to make it a bit smarter.
what i want it to do is not to run at specific time, but instead turn on when there is a movement in the house in the morning and shut down when everyone leave the house. We all run out at different times and its waste to make the thermostat to turn off 8:00 am as the family may be long gone by now.
I have traditional 4 wires going from the heater to the thermostat, which i do not want to touch.
I need your advice on which thermostat to get:
- RSC TR16 or TR40
or
- Aprilaire Model 8870 Thermostat
It seems that both can hook up to Elk.
i purchased the Elk M1 Gold package and i think it came with thermostat interface. I also have network interface attached to elk. Will i have difficulties attaching thermostat interface as both seem to run via serial interface?
thanks
The next thing I want to do is to add more functionallity to my thermostat. Currently we have not so smart thermostat with limited programming. I does what i want it to do, but i want to make it a bit smarter.
what i want it to do is not to run at specific time, but instead turn on when there is a movement in the house in the morning and shut down when everyone leave the house. We all run out at different times and its waste to make the thermostat to turn off 8:00 am as the family may be long gone by now.
I have traditional 4 wires going from the heater to the thermostat, which i do not want to touch.
I need your advice on which thermostat to get:
- RSC TR16 or TR40
or
- Aprilaire Model 8870 Thermostat
It seems that both can hook up to Elk.
i purchased the Elk M1 Gold package and i think it came with thermostat interface. I also have network interface attached to elk. Will i have difficulties attaching thermostat interface as both seem to run via serial interface?
thanks