Andy,
I have been using the thermostat by www.RadioThermostat.com <http://www.RadioThermostat.com> for several years now and they work great and the app is accessible. I know a few people posted that they have been able to find the thermostat which I believe is $140 from the website for $99 from Home Depot. Of course you also will need a professional installer to install this since it requires an extra wire to be run from the furnace to wherever you want the thermostat. This is a 24 Volt line which provides power to the thermostat. If you are lucky your existing cable may have 4 wires in it in which case you are good, if not a completely new cable may need to be installed. You can also search the archive for “Radio Thermostat” and you’ll find some of the old posts. There is also a WiFi thermostat from Nest available, but it’s more expensive and I don’t know about the accessibility although one would hope that it is accessible. You can easily find it on the Apple Store since it is sold there. Just look under “home automation”, can’t remember the price, but I think it was over $200. There is starting to be all sorts of neat stuff showing up in the area of home automation. I just purchased 3 wireless security monitoring cameras for my retail business. They are from a company called Dropcam which I believe was purchased by Nest. Of course I can’t see the camera feed, but the app is very accessible, I could easily set up the cameras and they do have 2-way voice communication so I can open the app, select a camera and hear what it picks up and the Talkback button is accessible so I can talk through the built-in speaker. I am also about to order the first WiFi connected thermostat which is now available for in-floor heating from the company Nuheat. It is called the “Signature” and I was able to find it for $190 (most places including Amazon sell it for $250 to $275). The app which I already downloaded has a demo mode and it seems to be very accessible. Like I said, all sorts of neat stuff out there and I really want to buy some of the Philipps Hue LED light bulbs which you can control with an app (turn them on/off, dim them, change their colour, program them to come on at certain times and all that), but they are still quite expensive and I am hoping the price might come down as competitors may also release products like that. Regards, Sieghard From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Andy Baracco Sent: Wednesday, December 10, 2014 6:39 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Home Thermostat Controlled by iPhone A while back, there was talk on this list about a smart home thermostat that can be controlled with an iPhone. As usual, because it didnt’ apply to me at the time, I didn’t save the info. Does anyone have info about such a beast, and is it accessible to blind folks? Andy I'm not wearing a diaper, so don't try to change me. -- The following information is important for all members of the viphone list. All new members to the this list are moderated by default. 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. The archives for this list can be searched at http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/. --- 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 [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> . To post to this group, send email to [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> . Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/viphone. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- The following information is important for all members of the viphone list. All new members to the this list are moderated by default. 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. The archives for this list can be searched at http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/. --- 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 [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/viphone. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
