[LHA-misc] Communicating Thermostats (RC80, Aprilaire, etc.)

[John K. <jk...@pr...>]

Has anybody written a driver for any of the communicating thermostats?

I like the looks and behavior of the Aprilaire [formerly Statnet] 'stats,
but I'm not about to fork over $500 just to manage 2 heat zones and 1
cooling zone, so I'm looking at the RC-80's.

The RC-80's, much like the ALC switches, use a strictly polled master-
slave arrangement.  The Aprilaire's can be configed to emit event
notifications.

John

PS - Hey Neil!  I managed to snag a couple of 3com Audreys...  I had
hoped to wall mount at least one of them, but they're much bigger than I
thought.  Seriously overengineered, no wonder they wanted so much for
them.  

Color touchscreen (12 bit, passive matrix), QNX 6.0, USB port which I've
populated with an Ethernet adapter :)  [Take *that* Crestron :)]