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..then I'll need to monitor the aux heat in some other way. Not a huge deal, but this is why I bought a "smart" thermostat.
For the control and monitoring, I'm working on integrating automation with ceiling fans to assist with air movement. It could wait the 5 mins, as it's generally not critical, but I'd like the control of a quicker response.
..I want to be able to correlate the timing of heating (and cooling) events, with in-house events such as doors opening, or occupancy of rooms, etc.
Now, since summer 2018, I have an heat-pump with baseboard Aux. back-up. What I've learned is that heat-pumps are not suited for quick temperature changes and this is when your costly Aux. electric heat will come on. And in summer, if you cool to fast you prevent proper humidity removal. This is my second winter and I'm still tuning things but one thing is certain, I only set-back a few degrees (1-2C) and only if I'm away for quite some time. Since I'm not working, I don't have a fixed schedule that I can implement so for the moment I'm using geo-localization to lower/increase the set-point. Based on my region, if I'm away more then 25 km, chances are that I'm gone somewhere for a good part of the day.
Again, the HVAC world is not a fast reacting ecosystem. Temperature, humidity, these things needs time to properly equalize.
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