I doubt you can do much on the thermostat itself if you can't use the app except maybe if you call Aira to help out. Most of these thermostats have touch screens. Having said this, our Honeywell T5 always works unless of course the power goes out, but then of course the furnace or in your case AC won't work anyways. Your connection to the thermostat would only not work if your internet service wasn't working, actually your Wi-Fi typically doesn't go down but of course if there is no connection to the outside all you have is a local area network with no connection to the outside, kind of like having 3 or 4 of the old cordless phones which have intercom function, that would still work if the phone service goes down, but it won't do you much good.
You can always ask your HVAC company to also install you a good old $15 thermostat although I don't know how these work with cooling since where I live cooling is not usually something we have to deal with a lot. I still have one of these hooked up as a backup so if for some reason our Honeywell really wasn't working because the internet was down I could just walk up to the other thermostat and push the little lever over until the furnace starts up. Normally this manual thermostat which has absolutely no programming functions whatsoever is turned all the way down so it does nothing unless we really need it. And if the power goes out completely in the middle of the winter then we are OK as well because we have a wood stove in the living room which easily heats the entire upstairs. From: viphone@googlegroups.com <viphone@googlegroups.com> On Behalf Of sarai.bucciare...@gmail.com Sent: Wednesday, October 12, 2022 4:59 AM To: macvisionar...@googlegroups.com Cc: viphone@googlegroups.com Subject: I need an accessible thermostat I have to replace my hvac downstairs. I need an accessible thermostat. HVAC company recommends the Ecobee. Says they have had less issues with this brand over NEST. So I see Amazon has the 2022 version on their site. For the Ecobee owners, Can you adjust if the wifi goes down? Also, is there an auto setting for heat/cool so once the temp reaches a certain degree heat or air will automatically come on? Can you turn off the system if you want to open windows? -- The following information is important for all members of the V iPhone list. If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. Your V iPhone list moderator is Mark Taylor. Mark can be reached at: mk...@ucla.edu. Your list owner is Cara Quinn - you can reach Cara at caraqu...@caraquinn.com The archives for this list can be searched at: http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/ --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "VIPhone" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com<mailto:viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com>. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/viphone/001d01d8de31%24fb2ca340%24f185e9c0%24%40gmail.com<https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/viphone/001d01d8de31%24fb2ca340%24f185e9c0%24%40gmail.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer>. -- The following information is important for all members of the V iPhone list. If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. Your V iPhone list moderator is Mark Taylor. Mark can be reached at: mk...@ucla.edu. Your list owner is Cara Quinn - you can reach Cara at caraqu...@caraquinn.com The archives for this list can be searched at: http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/ --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "VIPhone" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/viphone/DS0PR10MB624562F6A480E91E024353C6C7229%40DS0PR10MB6245.namprd10.prod.outlook.com.
