Question for the electrically savvy out here.
We are waiting on our small 110v Hot tub to be delivered in the next month or two (covid shortage)
I currently run a Honeywell smart thermostat on my home HVAC system and use Griddy as my energy provider which allows me to use the spot price of electricity as the trigger in the IFTTT (If This Than That) app to turn the system up or down depending on conditions to save a boatload of money.
I want to set the Hot tub on the same thing so I can crank up the heat when electricity is cheap and off when we have a spike.
I could just use a smart switch tied to home wifi to turn off in the event of a price spike but It would require me to manually turn the system back on when it subsides.
I'm thinking if I could keep the control circuit "always on" (on a separate power supply) I could put the heater loop on the smart switch.
So...
Am I thinking about this all wrong or does anyone have a suggestion how to accomplish this?
We are waiting on our small 110v Hot tub to be delivered in the next month or two (covid shortage)
I currently run a Honeywell smart thermostat on my home HVAC system and use Griddy as my energy provider which allows me to use the spot price of electricity as the trigger in the IFTTT (If This Than That) app to turn the system up or down depending on conditions to save a boatload of money.
I want to set the Hot tub on the same thing so I can crank up the heat when electricity is cheap and off when we have a spike.
I could just use a smart switch tied to home wifi to turn off in the event of a price spike but It would require me to manually turn the system back on when it subsides.
I'm thinking if I could keep the control circuit "always on" (on a separate power supply) I could put the heater loop on the smart switch.
So...
Am I thinking about this all wrong or does anyone have a suggestion how to accomplish this?
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