That's right!
Posted on 06/21/2021 10:14:04 AM PDT by Enlightened1
Power companies in Texas are remotely raising temperatures inside of some customers’ homes amid the state’s ongoing energy shortage.
Houston resident Brandon English, whose home has an internet-connected smart thermostat installed, was shocked to learn of the practice after his wife and infant daughter “woke up sweating.”
Speaking with KHOU 11, English stated that despite his wife turning down the temperature before taking a nap with their 3-year-old child, the temperature in their home rose significantly.
“They’d been asleep long enough that the house had already gotten to 78 degrees,” English said. “So they woke up sweating.”
English, who expressed concerns over the potential for his young child to overheat and dehydrate, said it wasn’t long after that his wife received a text alert noting that the thermostat had been remotely altered during a three-hour “energy saving event.”
English appears to have enrolled the thermostat, operated by the company EnergyHub, in a program known as “Smart Savers Texas,” KHOU 11 notes. The program, which customers have to opt-into, allows power companies to remotely adjust thermostats when energy demands are high in exchange for an entry into a sweepstakes. Other power companies have been known to offer customers reduced billing costs for entering similar programs.
Upon realizing the details of the program, English says he immediately unenrolled: “I wouldn’t want anybody else controlling my things for me.”
The English family is not the only one in Texas that seems to be experiencing such issues. The Daily Dot came across multiple videos on social media from individuals who claimed that their thermostats were being altered remotely.
Do not let the power company install a “smart” meter in your home or they will mess with your temperature of your home.
“For the Earth”
Speaking with KHOU 11, English stated that despite his wife turning down the temperature before taking a nap with their 3-year-old child, the temperature in their home rose significantly.
“They’d been asleep long enough that the house had already gotten to 78 degrees,” English said. “So they woke up sweating.”
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“I’m sorry, Dave”.
Smart electronics is slave electronics
They will be used to control you
That's right!
Put an old light bulb under the sensor.
And when there are “self-driving cars” they will be controlled remotely and you will be slowed down or directed to a rest stop when the Central Driving Authority decides that you are using too much gas.
Betcha those ‘smart meters’ come with a built-in microphone and maybe even a pinhole camera.
We use to do a similar thing in high School. The school set the thermostat too cold in winter so we would take a paper towel soak it in cold water and place it over the thermostat.
Are those people really surprised that happened?
Addendum: to deal with fire issues arising from possible poor installations maybe these meters should be mounted on a pole away from the home?
> Smart electronics is slave electronics They will be used to control you <
I feel the same way about those monitors insurance companies want to put in your car. They’ll tell where you go, when you go, and how fast you go.
Uh, no. I’ll pass on that.
“””whose home has an internet-connected smart thermostat installed”””
The ‘woke’ are finding that have a ‘smart’ house is not so smart of an idea.
I have a BIL who is woke and he thinks his smart house is cool.
I’ll keep my dumb thermostat.
Brandon is an idiot.
They have been doing this for years using the NEST thermostats.
Mine resets to 85 at 9:00 am and again at 2:00 pm. Once it is set, I lower it. I think there is a programming problem and if my eyes could actually read the directions, I would change the program.
“You will own nothing and you will enjoy it.”
I seldom set my AC below 78. I have ceiling fans in most rooms. I grew up in Buffalo I like it warm
They would have a hard time at my house. I set my summer temp to 80 degrees (that way outside temps are easier to handle when you have to go outside). In August when it’s humid I turn on a fan to move that 80 degrees around)
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