• raef@lemmy.world
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    2 hours ago

    TBF, over 15 in Germany I’ve only seen a couple of actual thermostats. The vast, vast majority use a valve on each radiator. There are electronic solutions for the radiators, but sticking a Nest on the wall is going to do nothing for someone unless the customer installs specific hardware that the Nest would have to support

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      12 minutes ago

      In the Netherlands, almost all houses have a thermostat. I don’t know anyone that doesn’t have one

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      1 hour ago

      Those “valves” are, in fact, thermostats. They use thermal expansion of wax to open/close the valve to get to their set temperature. Settings 1-5 are 12, 16, 20, 24, 28 Celsius.

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        44 minutes ago

        Yes, but they are not electronic and they don’t reflect the temperature of the room like a wall thermostat does.