Frustration Lab: HOW TO PROGRAM YOUR THERMOSTAT, Josh Goff.mov

Today's excursion to the Frustration Lab at the Friendly Neighborhood Center for Extreme Computing
brought to you by the word Thermostat, as in unacceptable temperature control and a very low contrast backlit flat panel display mounted at nose-level for RantWoman and therefore too high for many Friendly Neighborhood Center regulars.

Mounted at nose level means that RantWoman can in fact try with her nose inches fromt the device to make sense of the various boxes and arrows RantWoman can find on the display. RantWoman can try.

Something appears to be screwed up about the programming. The temperature is freeezing during business hours and warm at other times. RantWoman keeps poking at the boxes and arrows to NO effect. RantWoman emitted an email to landlord but has yet either to hear back or to pick up the phone. Today RantWoman did discover the brand name Honeywell and fed that into a search engine along with thermostat manual. Out popped assorted informative videos.

Shout out to the one below both for having a local contact phone number and for being captioned! Now RantWoman needs to persuade one of the people whose eyes she has been borrowing to look at the video and then see if they can undo some kind of hold or reset the entire device. Or....




And just to demonstrate that there are thermostat models available at least in the home market that have buttons instead of just a flat panel display


Today life is just one electronic non-party after another. We will not even discuss RantWoman's phone screen turning green arbitrarily for no reason clear to RantWoman. Nor will we discuss #IowaCaucuses vote counting. Nor...