Spent $180 on a "smart" thermostat and now I'm back to flipping the wall switch like a caveman

Picked up one of those wifi thermostats for the shop last spring. Figured I could adjust the temp from my phone when I'm on a job site. Three months in the app stopped connecting, customer service was a joke, and the thing kept kicking the heat on at 2 AM. Took it off the wall yesterday and put my old mercury one back. Anyone else ditch the fancy gadgets for stuff that just works?

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nora_wells5815d ago

My old mercury one never ghosted me at 3am either.

the_jesse15d ago

Man I feel this so hard. I bought a "smart" thermostat for my house last year and it was the same deal. App would crash every time I tried to change the schedule, and the thing would just randomly decide to heat the place up in the middle of the night like it had a mind of its own. @nora_wells58 is right about the old mercury ones - they just sit there and do their job without all this nonsense. I finally ripped mine out after waking up sweating at 3am for the third time that week. Went right back to a basic mechanical one from the hardware store and haven't had a single problem since. These companies add all this extra junk nobody asked for and forget to make the actual thermostat part work right.