i think you are referring to the tolerance of an individual temp setting. I’m asking about the range between the heat to and cool to settings when in Heat Cool mode. Default is 3 degrees. I’d like to change it to 1.5 or 2 degrees if possible. I run an AirBnB and our renters have very specific preferences.
@Patrick_Caezza Yes. One of those names is “dead zone.” I had a Wyse thermostat for a year, and it had a 5° dead zone. That guarantees that without constant monitoring and frequent intervention you will be uncomfortable at some point, or multiple points, in every day in the spring and the fall when the temperature swings back and forth above and below the range of your dead zone. I had to constantly do remote management of my settings to keep my Airbnb comfortable throughout the course of the day. I had to constantly guess which direction the ambient temperature was trending how fast it was changing and the latency of how fast it would cool or heat the inside of my house. It’s a nightmare. 3° is better than five, but it’s still requires intervention or discomfort. Traditional analog thermostats got it right. You simply set a single temperature you liked and the device heated or cooled within a 1.5° range above and below to keep it near the temperature of choice. I was astounded to see that modern day digital thermostats don’t offer that option. One problem is that a 3° dead zone is not simply 3°. It’s 3° plus the tolerance range the individual settings which brings it to between 4° and 5° in total. A thermostat with a 2° dead zone would begin to perform almost as well as the traditional analog thermostat.
