The best smart thermostats can measure the temperature in more than one place in your home. This is what sets them apart from the rest of the field. This lets you control the heating and cooling where you are, instead of where the thermostat is. It’s almost as good as having different heating, ventilation, and air conditioning (HVAC) systems for different parts of the house. Smart thermostats do this by using small, wireless remote sensors that can measure temperature and then add that information to their algorithms.
With the Honeywell Home T9 Smart Thermostat, you can use the Honeywell app to change the temperature from afar. Also, the room sensors improve comfort by figuring out how much humidity there is and making changes to rooms where more people gather. The thermostat comes with instructions to help set it up. The way it works is that you turn off the thermostat in your home at the fuse box. Then, take off its cover. It could mean gently pulling on the bottom or taking off screws. C-wiring is used for this thermostat. If your thermostat doesn’t have it, you can still use this guide to do other things.
[content-egg-block template=offers_logo hide=price]The Honeywell app will show you how to connect everything from here. But if you don’t know how to install it, you can talk to a Honeywell expert who will be happy to help. The thermostat also lets you control everything through the Wi-Fi connection in your home. Either 2.4 GHz or 5.0 GHz can be used for your connection.
On the plus side, the T9 sensor runs on two standard AAA batteries, which are much easier to replace than the coin cell battery Ecobee uses or the special lithium battery Nest uses. Resideo says that with normal use, they should last a year.
With the Honeywell Home T9 Smart Thermostat with Sensor, it’s easy to keep all the rooms in your house at the same temperature. You can add up to 20 remote room sensors that can tell the T9 if a room is being used or not. This can help lower heating costs by telling the T9 which rooms are being used.
The thermostat is easy to control with voice commands to Alexa, Cortana, or Google or the Honeywell Home app on your phone. Using IFTTT, the T9 will work with other smart devices, but there aren’t many applets to choose from right now. More will be added soon, though.