Thermostat control (coming soon)

Conditioning an empty building is one of the larger costs a club carries, and one of the easiest to get wrong — a space that's freezing when the first booking starts, a bay that's stifling by mid-afternoon, or HVAC running all night for nobody. OpenCourt is building smart thermostat control so temperature follows your bookings instead of a fixed schedule.

Built for unstaffed hours

This matters most at venues that run 24/7 with nobody on site — indoor golf, self-serve courts, late-night and early-morning slots. When there's no one to flip a switch, the building either runs all night or the first customer of the day walks into an uncomfortable space. Neither is good, and one of them is expensive.

Because bookings already drive door access, they can drive temperature the same way, with no one present and nothing for staff to remember.

Heating and cooling, equally

Cooling is the half people forget. An indoor golf bay with a projector, a screen and four people in it heats up fast, and hot-climate clubs spend more on air conditioning than northern clubs spend on heat. This works the same in both directions:

• Pre-condition before arrival — warm or cool, whichever the space needs, so the first booking of the day starts comfortable.

• Fall back when nothing's booked, including gaps between bookings and the long unbooked stretch overnight.

• Follow the space, not the building — a club with several bays, courts, or studios rarely needs all of them conditioned at once.

Catching HVAC problems overnight

The same connection reads the actual temperature back, so a space that drifts far outside its expected range can raise an alert. At an unstaffed venue that's the difference between finding out at 6am and finding out when a customer arrives at 6am.

The hardware

The same platform we already use for smart locks, Seam, also connects thermostats from ecobee, Google Nest, Honeywell, Sensi, Tado, Venstar, Trane, American Standard, Aprilaire and Sinopé. So for many clubs this would run on hardware you may already own, through a connection you may already have.

If your space is cooled by ductless mini-splits or a wall AC unit rather than central HVAC — common in converted units and smaller studios — Sensibo is on the same list and controls those, so you're not shut out by not having a conventional thermostat.

Brand support changes, so check a specific model on Seam's supported devices list.

Who this is for

Any club paying to condition space that isn't always occupied, and especially venues running unstaffed around the clock. The savings scale with how much of your day is unbooked — which, for a 24/7 space, is most of it.

In the meantime

Nothing to do. If you're replacing a thermostat or adding AC control soon, choosing something from the list above keeps this option open without committing you to anything.

Register your interest

We're prioritising this partly by who tells us they want it, so it's worth a message.

• Email support@getopencourt.com, or

• Talk to your OpenCourt account representative.

Useful things to mention: which thermostats or AC controllers you run (brand and model), how many zones, whether you operate unstaffed overnight, and whether you want temperature to follow individual bookings or just your opening hours.

Related

• How access controls work in OpenCourt

• Which locks work with OpenCourt