Hackaday.io user [mabe42] works during the week away from their home city and rents a small apartment locally to make this life practical. However, the heating system, a night-storage system, is not so practical. They needed a way to remotely control the unit so that the place was habitable after a long winter commute; lacking internet connectivity, they devised a sensible solution to create an SMS-controlled remote heating controller.
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://hackaday.com/2024/03/26/2024-home-sweet-home-automation-sms-controlled-heating/