Came home to a Sauna! Advice?

[mike31154]

We all make mistakes. I'm sure your daughter feels bad about the mishap with the A/C. I still trust my daughter over any controller or other technology (webcams, emails, etc) when I'm away for more than a few days. Controllers can fail as well, power outage comes to mind. It's fine to get an auto email from your web enabled controller telling you something's amiss in your absence, you still need someone to get in there & figure out how to keep things alive. By all means, consider a controller, but absolutely counting on that over a trusted human is no guarantee against Murphy's Law.

[sphelps]

Controllers have failed me in the past, once being responsible for a total wipe out. While they offer advantages I don't really see them as offering much increase in terms of reliability. Sometimes it's best to dumb things down, especially important if someone with little experience is watching the tank.