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Originally Posted by PeteMoss
Besides being able to control it by the phone - basically any programmable thermostat has a schedule feature that would accommodate your use for a lot cheaper than a smart thermostat.
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The best part of smart thermostats, other than the convenience, is monitoring usage and/or health of system. I monitor them pretty closely and knew well ahead of what otherwise would have that there was an issue with one AC unit. It went, over the course of 3 days in similar weather, from running ~5 hrs per day to 20+ hours per day. And the other unit doubled its daily run time as well, to try and compensate.
So was running combined 28hrs per day instead of usual 7, for two days only - and could have been two weeks or more, were I not overly interested in checking on them in app.