Anonymous Coward User ID: 73638373 United States 06/18/2021 04:11 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Texas Power Companies Remotely Change Smart Home Thermostats [ link to www.dailydot.com (secure)] 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.” The thermostat, operated by the company EnergyHub, appears to have been enrolled in a program known as “Smart Savers Texas,” KHOU 11 notes. The program, which many customers are enrolled in unknowingly, allows power companies to remotely adjust thermostats when energy demands are high. Upon learning about the program, English says he immediately unenrolled: “I wouldn’t want anybody else controlling my things for me.” |
javierruizleon
User ID: 79620634 United States 06/18/2021 04:29 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: Texas Power Companies Remotely Change Smart Home Thermostats Read this and just bought a mechanical thermostat, crazy Genesis-Acts,Hebrews-Revelation to, you know who Romans-Philemon to the Church Mid-Acts Pauline Dispensational Right Division |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 80068884 United States 06/18/2021 04:35 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: Texas Power Companies Remotely Change Smart Home Thermostats How long until laws are passed everywhere requiring Smart Thermostats? |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 2476229 United States 06/18/2021 04:40 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: Texas Power Companies Remotely Change Smart Home Thermostats My house was built in the early 1950s, and has an old school thermostat with the glass tube of mercury inside, and I will NOT be changing it. |
ChefElvis
User ID: 13147426 United States 06/18/2021 04:42 PM
Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: Texas Power Companies Remotely Change Smart Home Thermostats Literally, paying for your own enslavement. A legend in my own mind |