{"id":11072,"date":"2016-02-01T08:30:53","date_gmt":"2016-02-01T08:30:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/?p=11072"},"modified":"2016-02-12T02:32:47","modified_gmt":"2016-02-12T02:32:47","slug":"blogathon-0116-hot-or-cold-under-the-collar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/?p=11072","title":{"rendered":"Blogathon 01\/16: Hot (and cold) under the collar"},"content":{"rendered":"

When we bought this house we inherited a number of ‘features’.<\/p>\n

We have improved some of these ‘features’ by throwing them in to one of the many skips that have graced the driveway over the last six months.<\/p>\n

Other ‘features’ have been improved by updating the thinking behind them by 20> years.<\/p>\n

Even more ‘features’ have been improved by getting professional tradesmen in and throwing large sums of money at them, to do things in a safe and legal manner.<\/p>\n

However one ‘feature’ has remained impervious to my many attempts of improvement.<\/p>\n

The central heating remote control timer\/thermostat unit.<\/p>\n

The fact that this remote control unit can’t distinguish between working days and weekends is incredibly short-sighted.<\/p>\n

And unfixable.<\/p>\n

Similarly, the fact that one can set a ‘switch on’ or ‘heat up’ for 05.30, but can’t set a ‘switch off’ or ‘cool down’ for anything after 07.59 is incredibly bonkers.<\/p>\n

In a nutshell, the Bosch Worcester DT10RF Programmer is relatively unprogrammable.<\/p>\n

In 2013 one brave soul ran in to the same problems, and fought his way around them by building his own<\/a>.<\/p>\n

That is a brilliant – and low-cost – solution.<\/p>\n

But it’s not within my capabilities.<\/p>\n

I shall do some more reading on the subject and, while reading, save up for a little while and buy a Nest.<\/p>\n

Because the Nest seems to be a piece of technology that appears to have been built so that people can tell it what they want, not (as in the case of the Bosch Worcester DT10RF Programmer), a piece of technology that exists to tell people what they can’t do.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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