Like the fact that I don't have to get out of bed to turn out of and on and I can turn it on when I'm 30 minutes from home to make sure the house is nice and cool when I get home or the ability to turn it off while I'm on the road of I forgot to do that before leaving the house that way the A/C's not running all day when no one's at home.
Pros: works as advertised, drives to remote sensor temp as intended during set time, geo fence (off when away) useful. Touch screen response good. Adjust temp from app good.
Cons: a) can’t display time instead of temp on main screen when idle, b) app can’t show temp and heat/cool activity as graph like radio thermostat app does c) Cannot increase tolerance - the temperature “band” before heat/cool goes back on to maintain temp. At first was worried about more frequent cycling than old tstat, and that it would wear out old AC. Seems ok for now.
Thermostat works great except for it’s wifi feature which is the main reason i bought this particular model. Initially on installation it connects to my network then it gets disconnected most of the time & finally not connecting at all. I rebooted the router, reset to factory setting, disable SON, disable dfs, disconnected other wifi devices but still cannot find my network. Useless wifi.
Two major issues. One, I am not going to enter a password every time i launch a thermostat app. This is not a financial app, it does not need to be that secure. Two, there is no way to view real-time usage. Tracking day to day usage on my previous thermostat allowed me to recognize issues with my AC before the unit failed. This was not an option with the honywell app or website.
I really like this product, I used the remote sensors to give my home a balanced temperature. The hallway that the thermostat is located in does not have stable temps so with this thermostat and wireless sensors I can ignore the hallway temp and select other sensors to control. I have five remote sensors and can select any combination of them for control
There’s not a lot of information on the Internet about this thermostat working with Apple HomeKit but it does but it must have the correct firmware installed to work took several several calls to technical support to get the firmware push through but once it was updated HomeKit worked great