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Continuing a thread (found HERE[^] on CodeProject) from 20 months ago; I want a smart thermostat.
30-to-60 minutes of web serfing led me to super hi-tech units with attendant high prices.
When I do find lower priced units, I frequently see, "Not for use with baseboard heating systems".
What does that matter ???!!!???
I think that's what I have here. Electrical Strips in a metal housing along the baseboards.
What I want is a thermostat which I can tell...
-- to raise the temperature about 30 minutes before I wake up
-- that I'm going out for about 3 hours, warm the place back up then
Am I really asking too much ? What do I do now ?
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It matters because of thermal inertia.
So if they can't handle it they aren't as smart as they claim.
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Never heard of thermal inertia. Just looked it up. I don't understand why a "smart" thermostat has any trouble with it when my 30+ year old unsmart thermostat knows the difference between 50 and 80
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Instead of trying to answer here, it would turn into a short story, I'll refer to reading about PID regulators[^].
There's plenty more info on the net, but this is a good starting point.
Anyway the best regulators have not one point of measure (air temp), but three, Air temp, floor temp and outdoor temp.
And they don't learn just when you want high and low temperatures, but also the thermal inertia in your floor and how much energy loss you have to the outside and can compensate immediately when the outdoor temp goes down.
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Okay
Thanks
My education will continue
This sure is complicated just for a thing that will turn the heater off for 3 hours
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Arduino might be your friend in such a case ...
~RaGE();
I think words like 'destiny' are a way of trying to find order where none exists. - Christian Graus
Entropy isn't what it used to.
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In Germany we got that stuff for some €s, but its only for one radiator  you can set up to 5 different times a day
if(this.signature != "")
{
MessageBox.Show("This is my signature: " + Environment.NewLine + signature);
}
else
{
MessageBox.Show("404-Signature not found");
}
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So this is an odd one.
I did something in Outlook. I forget what: asked it to show me an email, or switched folders, or waved the mouse near it or something, and so Outlook locked up and consumed every CPU cycle it could get it's grubby hands on.
Fine. Whatever. Go crazy, Outlook.
However, when I switch to Visual Studio to get some real work done, it pops up that "Visual Studio is waiting..." message. And it's waiting for Outlook.
For what? It's daily horoscope? It's waiting through morbid fascination that an app can lock up that badly? It's waiting for it's turn in the bathroom? What on Earth would Visual Studio be doing waiting for Outlook?
The mind boggles.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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Waiting to get some CPU cycles from Outlook? (Like it ever would get some...)
What do you get when you cross a joke with a rhetorical question?
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Outlook has its red stapler.
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Chris Maunder wrote: What on Earth would Visual Studio be doing waiting for Outlook?
Do you have Office development tools installed on VS?
Once you lose your pride the rest is easy.
I would agree with you but then we both would be wrong.
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/slaps head
cheers
Chris Maunder
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Outlook is slow, overly complicated, and stupid.
I cannot imagine how a program that does little more than view text files can bring down a modern PC.
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I've been watching Lilyhammer on Netflix, highly recommend it!
I was expecting something akin to a Soprano's knock off, but nope. It's a Norwegian show. Literally the only American actor in it is the guy from the Soprano's, the rest of the cast is Norwegian, and the people who write it are all from Norway.
Very clever and funny, if you're looking for a new TV show would recommend checking it out.
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If you enjoy "Lilyhammer," I think you might also enjoy the Danish-Swedish series "The Bridge." Sophia Helin's performance as a Swedish high-Aspberger detective is, imho, magnificent, and Kim Bodnia's performance as her Danish detective partner just a perfect counter-balance. I'm delighted there's going to be a third-season of this (airing late in 2015).
I haven't seen an episode of the American spin-off of this.
cheers, Bill
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That sounds very watchable, and watchable TV is scarce at the moment!
Will check it out, cheers
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This is really one of the best series i've seen for a long time.
Two seasons are done so far.
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Never worked out why it is Lilyhammer and not lillehammer though.
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It's from how Anglophones pronounce it.
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Or at least how Stevie's character pronounces it. Ahem.
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Quote: ...of you...
Of who? I have no squirels of any kind at home!
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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So...your wife is the violent type then...it's only explanation.
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Wife bludgeons husband with sheep...
(Thinking of ewe.)
modified 27-Nov-14 14:58pm.
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