Abstract: There is disclosed a wireless space heater (10) with a switch operated valve assembly (19) having a gas inlet (21), a gas outlet (22) coupled to a gas burner (30), a gas outlet (26) coupled to a pilot gas nozzle (28), a thermopile (31), a thermocouple (33), an igniter (35), and a wireless receiver (40) which receives instruction signals from a thermostat (50). The thermostat includes a wireless receiver/transmitter (51) so that it may communicate to a home wireless router (60) or alternatively a gateway (61) coupled to a router. As such, a smart phone, computer, tablet, PDA or any other similar electronic device may be utilized to communicate with the wireless space heater through the home router or gateway, and through the thermostat, with the use of a software application placed on the device.