Re: Thermostat?
Posted: Wed Jan 09, 2013 11:32 pm
Hey Mike - I know you are in Ontario - where did you find the 80 and at what price ?
I got mine installed and setup (which for me to start and finish a project in one night is a miracle).
Couple bumps in the road which if anyone from radiothermostat is reading you should be able to fix.
- I understand about the C wire BUT what is confusing to me is the radio icon on the display lights and the lightning on it flashes with just the battery in even when the radio is clearly not powered on.
- lack of android support for setup should be easy to fix. its related to the adhoc /32 network that is available - switch to a regular ap setup and that problem goes away. I have run into this before with c2c modes on ap's
- a bit of the instructions is not entirely clear about connecting back to the thermostat to get the uuid - I understood what was going on so knew what to do, but a non-technical user wouldn't.
- I'd sure prefer an onscreen ip setup but I realize the screen is not a pixelized screen so not much is possible.
overall though pretty simple to get going. have not tried accessing it with curl yet to test to the api, but one thing I do find kind of shocking there is that there is absolutely no authentication on it that I can see. Almost need a separate ssid for this sort of use that no other clients connect to and proxy to something secured past that.
I got mine installed and setup (which for me to start and finish a project in one night is a miracle).
Couple bumps in the road which if anyone from radiothermostat is reading you should be able to fix.
- I understand about the C wire BUT what is confusing to me is the radio icon on the display lights and the lightning on it flashes with just the battery in even when the radio is clearly not powered on.
- lack of android support for setup should be easy to fix. its related to the adhoc /32 network that is available - switch to a regular ap setup and that problem goes away. I have run into this before with c2c modes on ap's
- a bit of the instructions is not entirely clear about connecting back to the thermostat to get the uuid - I understood what was going on so knew what to do, but a non-technical user wouldn't.
- I'd sure prefer an onscreen ip setup but I realize the screen is not a pixelized screen so not much is possible.
overall though pretty simple to get going. have not tried accessing it with curl yet to test to the api, but one thing I do find kind of shocking there is that there is absolutely no authentication on it that I can see. Almost need a separate ssid for this sort of use that no other clients connect to and proxy to something secured past that.