NC State fires Doerenwhich won ' t happen according to your AD , as I recall <| sep |> It happened in KramnikTopalov in 2006 . <| sep |> Ideally the cheapest thing which qualifies as a wificontrollable thermostat . No dependence on external services which might get turned off . That product looks like pretty good value for what it is , thanks for the suggestion . However it looks like it falls foul of the ' no external services ' constraint . which I realise I failed to specify in my post . My current fairly strong candidate is the Heatmiser PRTTS WiFi . Nice and old , so no cloud nonsense . Some scripts here for integration with other custom stuff wifi <| sep |> You have to speak to her a handful of times for a certain menu to pop up . If I hadn ' t of googled it I would have definitely missed it . Extraordinarily clunky design .