apostolakisl
Senior Member
This is for my church. Our sanctuary has 5 independent hvac units which all feed a single gigantic room. There are 5 thermostats in that gigantic room. Frankly, I don't think this was a very good way to do it, but it is done already.
Because the 5 thermostats are scattered about, it literally is like a 10 minute process to walk all around and set them. Thus people get lazy and start putting them on hold which costs $$$. The schedule is only sort of consistent, there are lots of exceptions, so a strict program doesn't work well.
What I was thinking, was to replace the thermostats with wifi ones (we have wifi in the sanctuary). Then perhaps there is an application or maybe we could write a script so that the thermostats can all be manually or automatically triggered via a single controller, like a pc or smartphone. I would like it so that a single command adjusts all 5 thermostats the same. As if there were only 1 thermostat.
Any thoughts?
Because the 5 thermostats are scattered about, it literally is like a 10 minute process to walk all around and set them. Thus people get lazy and start putting them on hold which costs $$$. The schedule is only sort of consistent, there are lots of exceptions, so a strict program doesn't work well.
What I was thinking, was to replace the thermostats with wifi ones (we have wifi in the sanctuary). Then perhaps there is an application or maybe we could write a script so that the thermostats can all be manually or automatically triggered via a single controller, like a pc or smartphone. I would like it so that a single command adjusts all 5 thermostats the same. As if there were only 1 thermostat.
Any thoughts?