Hi Rhonda & Steve, I have had my thermostat from TalkingThermostat.com for two and a half years now and we really like it. Janet and I are, like you, both blind. You can set it all up with voice prompts four cycles a day, five and two days so week-end hours can be set different to week-day hours. We have ours set to 21C at 6:30 a.m. Because my wife is home all day we don't set it back but at 7 p.m. when we are more likely to be sitting around at the television it comes up to 22C then down to 16C over night. On Saturday and Sunday I think it turns up at 7:30 in the morning.
You can clip it off of the wall to set it from your armchair if you like. I don't think I have changed the batteries yet but I am not sure of that. There are two models, one I have runs a standard 24 volt system but there is one for the 110 volt systems common to heat pumps. When I bought mine they weren't shipping to Canada because apparently people were refusing to pay the customs so they ended up getting them back plus shipping but I happened to be going to a professional convention in Houston and they shipped it to my hotel. I smuggled it across the boarder only to discover later that having been out of the country five days I didn't need to, I could have declared it and brought it in legitimately. I recommend you try www.talkingthermostats.com ----- Original Message ----- From: Rhonda & Steve To: [email protected] Sent: Friday, February 22, 2008 7:05 PM Subject: [BlindHandyMan] Talking Thermostats Hey, my lady & I would like to get a thermostat we can use. Neither of us has any sight at all. She doesn't want something that is primarily voice activated though, would like 1 we can program ourselves, know the temp its set at, etc. Would like to hear experiences of others, what's out there, what's good & what's not. She has done some reading on the Kelvin talking thermostat, but there are more available than just that one. Thanks for any input. Steve & Rhonda [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.5.516 / Virus Database: 269.20.9/1293 - Release Date: 2/22/2008 9:21 AM [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
