After sitting on the shelf for over a month, I finally wired a Honeywell 7-day programmable thermostat to my Harman Advance (thanks to the forum for all the help!).
The main reason I wanted this setup is because we travel a lot during the weekends, and I'm tired of coming home Sunday afternoons to a cold house (plus another 2 hours or so to get the temp back up). So, I'm hoping my thermostat can help with this... and wouldn't you know it, I'm going out of town this weekend for Christmas!
So, I wanted to post this as more of a sanity check... am I going about this the right way?
Friday morning, I'll cycle down the stove until it turns off.
On the thermostat, I'll setup all occupy/unoccupy periods to the lowest setting (40 deg) for Friday and Saturday. In my mind, this should keep the stove from powering on at any point Friday and Saturday (assuming the thermostat temp doesn't go below 40 in the room).
I'll program it to return to it's max setting (90 deg) at least 2 hours before I'm scheduled to come home on Sunday.
Then I'll place it in Room Temp mode, with auto ignite on.
Does this sound like the right way to go about this? The minimum setting for Friday and Saturday is where I'm a little nervous... Since my particular T-stat doesn't have a vacation mode, setting all occupy/unoccupy periods to it's lowest setting for the days I'm away is the only way I can think to do this.
Let me know what you guys think.
Thanks!
The main reason I wanted this setup is because we travel a lot during the weekends, and I'm tired of coming home Sunday afternoons to a cold house (plus another 2 hours or so to get the temp back up). So, I'm hoping my thermostat can help with this... and wouldn't you know it, I'm going out of town this weekend for Christmas!
So, I wanted to post this as more of a sanity check... am I going about this the right way?
Friday morning, I'll cycle down the stove until it turns off.
On the thermostat, I'll setup all occupy/unoccupy periods to the lowest setting (40 deg) for Friday and Saturday. In my mind, this should keep the stove from powering on at any point Friday and Saturday (assuming the thermostat temp doesn't go below 40 in the room).
I'll program it to return to it's max setting (90 deg) at least 2 hours before I'm scheduled to come home on Sunday.
Then I'll place it in Room Temp mode, with auto ignite on.
Does this sound like the right way to go about this? The minimum setting for Friday and Saturday is where I'm a little nervous... Since my particular T-stat doesn't have a vacation mode, setting all occupy/unoccupy periods to it's lowest setting for the days I'm away is the only way I can think to do this.
Let me know what you guys think.
Thanks!