From:  Tim Streater <tim@streater.me.uk>
Date:  27 Oct 2024 16:29:12 Hong Kong Time
Newsgroup:  news.alt119.net/uk.d-i-y
Subject:  

Re: Dumb TRVs with call for heat

NNTP-Posting-Host:  null

On 27 Oct 2024 at 08:16:21 GMT, "nib"  wrote:

> On 2024-10-26 21:09, Tim Streater wrote:
>> On 26 Oct 2024 at 16:11:41 BST, "Tricky  Dicky"  wrote:
>> 
>>> ... and what is easier then simply saying “Alexa set heating to 21”
>> 
>> Not saying anything at all is a lot easier.
>> 
> 
> Given that you want to change something, is there an easier way? !!

Pressing two buttons on the heating conroller I pass on the way to the
kitchen, is a lot easier. And it means not shouting. And it means one less
device (Alexa) which needs batteries charged, or a mains connection.

What would be useful would be a trainable remote. At the minute there's one
for the TV, one for the amp, and one for the DVD player.

-- 
Britain sitting behind the protectionist wall of the Customs Union is doing absolutely nothing for the oppressed coffee bean growers of the developing world. How ironic then that the cappuccino-swilling hordes of Hove voted in large numbers to keep some of the world's poorest people and traders locked out of our markets.

Tom Bewick - Labour councillor in Brighton and Hove