Stop in for a cup of coffee
When did residential thermostats become accessible to remote communication?
When you can hook them up and control them with your smart phone...
Or here, they have cutoff boxes hooked up to your outside A/C compressor and they offer a 'discount' on electricity if you agree to let them cycle the compressor on and off during peak hours... But they let the blower still run to give the illusion that the A/C is working... The furnace blower still pulls some power, so how's that helping 'save' energy...
My house was built in the 60's with all electric and no forced air, so each bedroom has a separate through the wall A/C unit that the electric company can't mess which is my back up plan if it gets too hot... My dad had forced air added in the 80's.... But my oldest son burnt his wall A/C out by using it every day for over 10 years summer and winter against my direction... (and ran my electricity bill up...)
I have a spare A/C unit in the basement that will fit his room that he doesn't know about, but refuse to install it so he doesn't burn that one out also... He could have just used a 10" box fin in the winter for the background noise and summer on cool nights and opened a window, but he wouldn't listen to me, so he has to suffer the consequences of his actions and now uses box fans and a big blower in his room that he bought from the tool guy truck at work... He's moved out since, but I still am not going to waste my spare wall A/C unit in his room yet....