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Heating max setpoint is enforced for cooling

Open neilbrookins opened this issue 1 year ago • 5 comments

The purpose of the heating max setpoint is to prevent wasting money by not allowing heating to a higher temperature than appropriate. This limit should not be applied to the cooling mode. There is nothing wrong with (and no energy is wasted) setting the thermostat warmer when in cooling mode. But this integration incorrectly prevents the cooling mode from being set warmer than this limit.
The reverse is also the same: The purpose of the cooling min setpoint is to prevent wasting energy by not allowing the operator to set the air conditioning to an unreasonable cold temperature. But this limit should not be enforced in heating mode. The operator should be allowed to heat to a colder temperature- the low limit for heating should be 45 degrees F. But this integration is preventing the operator from setting the heating temperature to below this higher limit. Meaning you can’t heat to 50 degrees F. But this should be allowed. The cooling min setpoint should have no impact on heating.

The heating max setpoint should have no impact on cooling.

Please test this inside the Sensi app and you will see what I’m describing is accurate.

neilbrookins avatar Dec 06 '23 13:12 neilbrookins