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What is this device? (Located on wall inside a house) (slrpnk.net)

submitted 4 months ago by Temperche@slrpnk.net to c/asklemmy@lemmy.world

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Hi everyone,

would anyone know what kind of device that is? Is it an AC remote? A humidity sensor? An air quality measurement? Or just a digital temperature sensor?

The picture is from the wall of a newly built house in Arkansas, so I suspect it has to do something with "smart home".

Thanks for your help!

Cheers, Temperche

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[–] Vinny_93@lemmy.world 55 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Looks like a Nest Thermostat

[–] Zachariah@lemmy.world 6 points 4 months ago

correct

[+] Temperche@slrpnk.net -6 points 4 months ago (3 children)

That seems to be it. Thanks. Too bad that doesn't seem usable without extensive wiring and is thus only an option for newly constructed houses.

[–] YottaDren@lemmy.world 20 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Not necessarily true! If your home already has a thermostat, then nest has a website where you answer some questions and they let you know if it can be replaced with a thermostat. Only 4 wires are needed typically.

[–] Temperche@slrpnk.net -2 points 4 months ago (3 children)

Well, it doesn't have one, I'm currently using Honeywell devices which communicate wirelessly.

[–] LrdThndr@lemmy.world 24 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

Even if you’re using wireless devices, you almost certainly have a master device that DOES connect via a wire. Wireless thermostats are a recent invention, so if you have a non-newly-constructed home, it’s almost certain that at least one of your thermostats has a hardwire connection.

Pull each off the wall and look behind it. The wires are small, not like household power lines. They only carry 24v, so they look closer to phone wires than anything else, though not exactly.

When you find the wired thermostat, you can replace that one with a nest or ecobee. They come with directions on how to wire them up. The downside is that the other thermostats without a wire will become decorative and not function anymore without the master.

[–] Temperche@slrpnk.net 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I don't have a master device as all. The house is from the 70's, and all our radiators were only manually adjustable valves (turn from 0 to 5). The wireless system just replaced having to hand-turn every radiator on and off daily. No master device was present at all.

[–] LrdThndr@lemmy.world 1 points 4 months ago

Oh. Yeah. If it's a manual valve turn system, not a central hvac, then a Nest or ecobee won't work for you.

[–] Stamets@lemmy.world 5 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Wait.

A WIRED thermostat is only an option for newly constructed houses? Dude you're using a wireless one. You think wireless thermostats were invented in 1895 or something?

[–] givesomefucks@lemmy.world 3 points 4 months ago

What?

If it's already set up like that, you'd just have to connect a new one to wifi...

[–] apfelwoiSchoppen@lemmy.world 18 points 4 months ago

I use one in a house that is 90 years old. The HVAC that it is attached to is from the 90s.

[–] scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 6 points 4 months ago

That "extensive wiring" is similar to a phone wire, and has been standard for a very, very long time

[–] ccunning@lemmy.world 52 points 4 months ago

This feels like a bot crowdsourcing captcha solutions from Lemmy 😅

[–] towerful@programming.dev 20 points 4 months ago

Obviously it's a fart counter. Resets at midnight.
OP has been busy!

[–] gigachad@sh.itjust.works 11 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Why is this post downvoted so heavily? Am I overseeing something?

[–] bionicjoey@lemmy.ca 10 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Asklemmy is for open ended questions that prompt discussion. This is not that.

[–] gigachad@sh.itjust.works 6 points 4 months ago

Is see, so !whatisthisthing@lemmy.world is probably the right community. I guess it would be more helpful to just tell OP :)

[–] Drummyralf@lemmy.world 3 points 4 months ago

Probably because of the blurry picture. But dunno.

[–] Zomg@lemmy.world 9 points 4 months ago (1 children)

That's a nest thermostat. Press the face inward to wake it, spin the dial to adjust settings.

[–] LrdThndr@lemmy.world 4 points 4 months ago

Some of the newer cheaper nest models don’t spin. They have a touch sensor on the right side.

But this looks like a spinny model.

[–] drkt@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 4 months ago

I've seen AC temperature controllers in this form factor. The outer ring can spin and will let you turn the temperature up or down. It is usually part of a larger smart-home system but it doesn't have to be.

[–] jordanlund@lemmy.world 3 points 4 months ago

Smart thermostat of some kind.

https://mysmartcocoon.com/blogs/blog/comprehensive-guide-to-smart-thermostats-2023

[–] PostnataleAbtreibung@lemmy.world 1 points 4 months ago (3 children)

It looks like a malfunctioning thermostat. Or the temperature is in percentage rather than in Celsius.

[–] Guntrigger@sopuli.xyz 14 points 4 months ago

in Arkansas

in Celsius

Does not compute. Them there's freedom units.

[–] LrdThndr@lemmy.world 9 points 4 months ago

It’s the us. Fahrenheit, bruh.

[–] Temperche@slrpnk.net 7 points 4 months ago

Given that its a picture from the US, I'd suspect Fahrenheit rather than Celsius.

[–] otp@sh.itjust.works 1 points 4 months ago

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