Wireless Thermostats Offer Comfort and Convenience

A wireless thermostat allows you to control the temperature of your home from different rooms. Most wireless home thermostat systems have more than one controller, which can be placed throughout the home. They are also portable enough for you to carry from room to room, keeping whichever room you're in at a comfortable temperature.

Wireless thermostats are comfortable and easily programmable to suit your needs. They offer a variety of ways in which they can be used, all of which are convenient and user friendly. Wireless thermostats can be mounted to a wall or slipped into a pocket. These devices can be quickly programmed, and easily switch to manual function with large buttons and simple-to-use interface.

Wireless Thermostats Help Save Money

Thermostats are also an often an overlooked tool for managing your home's utility costs. Properly using a wireless programmable thermostat in your home is one of the easiest ways you can save energy, money, and help fight global warming. A programmable wireless thermostat helps make it easy for you to save by offering four pre-programmed settings to regulate your home's temperature in both summer and winter, and when you are asleep or away.

The average American household spends more than $2,200 a year on energy bills, and about half of that sum goes towards heating and cooling costs. Yet homeowners can save about $180 a year by properly setting their programmable thermostats and maintaining those settings. The pre-programmed settings that come with programmable thermostats are intended to offer savings without sacrificing comfort.

How Wireless Thermostats Work

Wireless thermostats consists of two parts, a thermostat and a receiver. The thermostat is a wireless, battery operated unit that can be placed in any location in your home (up to 500ft. from receiver) that transmits radio signals to the receiver which replaces your existing wall thermostat. This thermostat allows up to 4 time/temperature settings to be programmed per 24-hr period and stores programs for 7 independent days.

Once the receiver is installed, the thermostat can then go anywhere in the building, and it will transmit radio signals back to the receiver. The transmission range is up to 500 feet, and it works through walls, floors, ceilings, etc. The temperature sensor is located on the thermostat, so place the thermostat where temperature control is most important to you — your bedroom, the boss's office, a baby's room, etc. The wireless thermostat runs off of 2 AA lithium batteries (include

Using Multiple Transmitters

If more than one transmitter is used with a single receiver, the transmitters must be given different Unit ID Numbers. Only the transmitter with Unit ID Number 1 may have a programmed schedule or be configured. All configuration parameters are taken from the transmitter with Unit ID Number 1. Transmitters with Unit ID Numbers 2, 3, and 4 cannot be programmed or configured (except for set points).

When more than one transmitter is used, the receiver will only accept commands from the transmitter that was last used (button pressed). All other set points and modes from other transmitters are ignored. If the transmitter with Unit ID Number 1 has a schedule and is in Program On mode, the receiver will revert back to following the programmed schedule when a time period change occurs, even if the transmitter with Unit ID Number 1 is not the current commanding transmitter.

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