News and notes from around the interweb:
- Attempting to Try The Viral Hotel Thermostat Override Hack Could Land You With a $500 Fine just putting an Inncomm thermostat into VIP mode, though, should be fine…
hotels are threatening to crack down on guests who want their rooms ice cold. It turns out that hacking the room thermostat could damage the device and even affect the room temperature in other rooms. That means hotels are being forced to replace thermostats, which is a cost they no longer want to bear.
The issue came to light after Spirit Airlines flight attendants staying in a well-known chain hotel in Minneapolis were threatened with a $500 fine if they detected any intentional or accidental tampering with the thermostat in the room they were staying in….Since the start of this year, flight attendants staying at the hotel have been warned that they face a $500 fine to cover the costs of fixing or replacing a damaged thermostat in a room they were staying in.
- With Delta pivoting to Uber, their Lyft points-earning partnership ends April 7. You shouldn’t be crediting Lyft rides to SkyMiles, though – you should be earning more valuable Alaska Airlines or Bilt points instead (indeed, Bilt points transfer to Alaska or to other programs, so is the highest-value Lyft option… plus Chase offers up to 10x earn on Lyft, and you can often triple and quadruple dip, e.g. with ThanksAgain.
- I guess he did it in the terminal because the line for the lounge was too long.
this guy clipping his toes while I waited at the airport
byu/TheBadWife_ inmildlyinfuriating - TSA was given big raises starting in the back half of 2021.
Salary working for TSA since 2020
byu/Zealousideal-Ad7707 inSalary - Los Angeles couple says they were nearly crushed by ‘watermelon-size’ chunk of ice falling from JetBlue plane
A simple way to override the thermostat is to just hang a heating pad over it.
I need more information about JetBlue with the ice in Los Angeles.
The most frustrating thing about “smart” thermostats is the ones that don’t allow constant fan in a hotel with poor noise insulation (and highway/exterior noise, loud elevator machinery, loud maids, loud guests…). Those thermostats come in two kinds- one with an electronic timer (that can sometimes be overridden) and the other kind with a motion sensor (which can sometimes be fooled by dangling a piece of toilet paper in front of them).
The managers of hotels with these thermostats deserve to have their personal phone numbers doxxed so that their guests may call them at 2 in the morning to share their displeasure. (Just kidding… a bit.)
You should exit the thermostat VIP mode before checking out. That is likely to avoid problems with the hotel. I just looked up the procedure to exit Limited Energy Management (VIP) mode. It differs only in the last step. Instead of pushing the up button to enable VIP mode you push the down button to disable it.
LEM (VIP mode) can also quickly be disabled by performing the following button press
sequence:
1. Press and hold the DISPLAY button.
2. Press and release the POWER button.
3. Press and release the DOWN arrow button
4. Release the DISPLAY button.
I am running into more and more hotels that have motion detectors connected to whether/how the AC works in the hotel rooms.
If you sleep too still, the room is more likely to end up more uncomfortable than for a restless sleeper who tosses and turns often.
I may have to start bringing an electronic means to trigger the motion detector if this practice spreads.