Smart Thermostat / Locking the temperature

[Carlos H DeOliveira]

I'm struggling to find the perfect solution for a thermostat in my STRs and wanted to hear about how everyone manages through this.

Do you lock your thermostat and manage the temperature remotely? Do you leave it unlocked so guests can set it at any temperature? I find that in Florida if you set your cool temperature too low, and leave windows/doors open it ends up freezing the unit or creating some type of an issue. My houses have pools so guests often leave the sliding door wide open and blast the A/C.

Features I'm looking for: Ability to lock a temperature range for cool, another temperature range for heat, allow the guest to adjusting within the range but not able to change settings in thermostat. Also the thermostat needs to move between cool and heat by itself.

Nest Thermostat - I currently use it in a couple of my STRs, has a range lock but when using the Temp range lock I can only leave it on Cool or Heat, and in Florida depending on the time of the year guests want Cool during the day but need Heat at night. The other problem I have with Nest thermostats is that every guest thinks they are a Google Nest Pro, they take it off the wall, try to reset it and eventually the clips that hold the Nest break and it doesn't stay on the wall.

Honeywell T9 - I can lock the system so guests can't adjust settings or temperature that's a full lockout that isn't ideal for guests, the partial lockout let's guests adjust temperatures but it doesn't allow me to limit the temperature range.

Am I missing something? Sounds crazy to me that I can't find an ideal solution for this.