This YouTube video (uploaded August 3, 2023 by Mark Simpson) discusses smart-home energy-saving hacks for short-stay rental properties. Key points include turning off heating or air conditioning between guest stays to avoid wasted energy, integrating with smart heating controls (a frequently requested feature), and using device motion detection to switch off HVAC if a property is empty for around an hour.
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And what we can do is turn off the air conditioning or the heating in between guest days. So if you have one guest booked Monday to Wednesday and then another one booked Friday to Monday, we can turn the heating of air conditioning off in between those two guests so that if the first guest leaves the air conditioning running, it's not running for two days whilst the property is empty. And that's becoming something people ask us more and more about. And we're getting more requests now for integrating with other types of smart heating controls than kind of anything else because it's kind of top of mind. The energy bill ones is one that's really resonating with people at the minute. And so you can. Yeah, in the same way I kind of think that the main use cases is on the energy saving side and trying to turn heating off either in between stays. And the next thing we kind of want to go into is because we have motion detection in the device, if the property is empty for an hour, then turn the air conditioning off.