Just an FYI The Nest T-Stat has lockout built into it also. I use it in our office to set a range that it can be adjusted to.
[quote=“scottkeen, post:1, topic:178858”]I have a vacation rental property that has central air-conditioning. The renters are not supposed to use the central A/C unless they pay extra for it.
I need to remotely administer the thermostat which is why the VeraLite Z-Wave controller is perfect for me. But I also need the thermostat to be able to be locked. Not physically locked in one of those clear lock boxes, because if the vacation renters pays for air-conditioning, then I need to enable the thermostat and allow them to push the temperature and cooling buttons whenever they want to turn on the A/C.
I also need to be able to set the temperature boundaries for cooling, say no lower than 68-degrees (no need for heating boundaries, I don’t have a heater system, just central air-conditioner).
I was looking at the Honeywell TH8320ZW1007/U thermostat but the screen lockout function appears to be able to overridden by the user pressing the System button and holding down the center blank button on the thermostat. I don’t want my vacation renters to be able override the thermstat.
Which Z-Wave thermostat would do what I want and is compatible with my VeraLite controller?[/quote]
We take a one month security deposit on our vacation property in Florida.
The lease states that electric is not included and is deducted from the deposit. Our lease also states that the air conditioning must never be turned off. I receive email notifications if the temperature rises above 78*. I have a Trane Z Wave thermostat with a Vera 2
It was horrible, it was hot, it was sweaty, and there was a lot of rat feces, but I ran a new thermostat wire (with 5-wires) from the air handler in the attic to the ecobee. My friend Doug at Off Shore Air walked me through figuring out which connection was “Common”. He had me wire nut the blue wire of the new stat wire to the black wire coming out of the Rheem air handler which was also already wire-nutted to a red wire going to the condenser outside. The ecobee powers on and seems to work fine. I also just added the ecobee plugin for Vera.
That’s great, Scott! I’m glad the effort of running the new wire seems to have paid off. I’ve submitted a new ecobee plugin to the app store, likely published early this coming week, that should only differ from the current one in that it shouldn’t prematurely ask you to fetch a new PIN to authenticate (which only seems to happen on rare occasion).
Keep us posted on how it works out for you!
Regards,
watou
I am not clear on ecobee ability to lock out tenants from changing or turning on AC from the device. I have a proliphix now but they are beginning to charge $5 month effect June 30 2014 to use their programs.
I want to change now…
I have a vacation rental but tenants abuse the AC I want to be able to set the unit remotely and not allow the change unless i do so from my remote device.
So if I set AC at 68 i dont want tenants to change it to 62 or anything else.
Everytime a tenant comes in they lower the temp to 52 or 60 thinking it will cool the place down faster… idiots.
thanks for your help!
I am considering the Ecobee because of this forum but i need to be sure. the Proliphix works great i just dont want to pay for the use of it going forward…
I am late to this thread, but you can override almost any setpoint change using a scene in Vera. You can set a trigger based on the temp being set too low, and then push it right back to where you want it. I have a scene the triggers when the temperature is set below 72 in cooling mode, and bumps it back to 76. Works great. Does not matter what thermostat you use as long as you can read and set the setpoint .
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