Question about Thermostat Controller using temperature sensors

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What sort of "safeguards" does it have in place when adding several temperature sensors? The documentation says it averages the values. Is there a way to tell it to exclude a sensor if the value has not changed in a certain amount of time? Or to ignore a sensor if the value falls way outside of the expected range? Don't want it thinking my house is suddenly hundreds of degrees above the setpoint because a sensor reports a maximum value and turning on the AC in winter for example.

EDIT: and a question that has nothing to do with using sensors. I read what hysteresis is in the documentation and think I understand it. In TC, what is the "Control Offset?" That is not mentioned in the documentation at all.

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You can create a virtual temperature sensor that behaves as you like... let it be the averaged value. Use that virtual in TC. Or combinations.. create 4 virtual temp sensors and have logic to detect for each one if it's in or out of range.

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