Honeywell Home RTH6580WF Wi-Fi 7-Day Programmable Thermostat - Amazon Warehouse - Good used
In the last two weeks I bought three of these. I tried one first and it was really good so I standardized our house on them. The price has fluctuated. At one point it was $16 and I got two of mine for $18. $21.26 (now $26.51) is still a great deal on a good Wifi thermostat. I wanted a wifi thermostat without too much tech (no motion sensors or too much automated guesswork) that was reliable and easy to use. These filled the bill nicely. The app works reliably. The thermostat fit two of my three marks on the wall from the old thermostat with no painting and the old holes in the wall lined up nicely from all three. Both came in the orginal box and had been carefully repacked. Take a picture of the mac address on the back of the thermostat before you click it into place on the mount. You'll need the Mac address. They were easy to get online, I used my 2.4 wifi band as that seems to work better with all my home automation. A C wire is needed for these and I ended up running that to all three because I only had four wires on my older setup.
Look for the Amazon Warehouse listing for the best price. The price fluctuates so YMMV on the actual price.
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When this particular Honeywell model was released, it was rock solid. I had one installed in my house. Loved that I could control the heat or ac from the bed. I loved how we could set a temperature range (heat on when it gets this cold, ac on when it gets this hot). But when we got a new HVAC, it came with a Nest so we retired the Honeywell. I still have it in a drawer, just in case.
General thought on Honeywell... I guess they do pretty much everything from jet engines to air purifiers to thermostats. I didn't know they did lights, but hey, why not.
And why people don't have one?
I am a HUGE fan of Amazon Warehouse, so that's no big deal at all.
And why people don't have one?
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I am a HUGE fan of Amazon Warehouse, so that's no big deal at all.
If you have the non-Wifi version, it is the same thing but you can control it from your phone. Is great for those cold nights when the wife wants you to get out of bed and trek across the house to turn up the heat.
I have gone Nest and never want to go back. I can just call out "Ok Google, what's the temperature inside the house?" or "Ok Google, set temperature between 73 and 78."
I forget whether you can control it from outside the house, but you can with with the Nest. Nice feature when you are on vacation and realize you left the AC full freeze mode.
When this particular Honeywell model was released, it was rock solid. I had one installed in my house. Loved that I could control the heat or ac from the bed. I loved how we could set a temperature range (heat on when it gets this cold, ac on when it gets this hot). But when we got a new HVAC, it came with a Nest so we retired the Honeywell. I still have it in a drawer, just in case.
General thought on Honeywell... I guess they do pretty much everything from jet engines to air purifiers to thermostats. I didn't know they did lights, but hey, why not.
My parents' home have the same mechanical Honeywell that's been there for 40 years, working perfectly with their boiler that's also 30+ years old.
But I went with Nest with my new house and haven't looked back.
Now some notes on using them:
*The TCC app is clunky and requires you to click SUBMIT after making any change, but has all of the functionality.
*They do connect to Alexa/Google for a better UI and voice control, but setting the temperature there seems to only be a 2 hour hold.
*As mentioned earlier in this thread, if/when Honeywell decides to stop supporting these thermostats they will revert to being exactly like my old ones where you have to use the buttons on the unit and the wifi functionality would be useless. Ideally a smart thermostat would support the Matter standard to connect directly to HomeAssistant offline, but not possible with these units.
Overall can't complain - I can control my thermostats from anywhere for $20, but when Honeywell stops supporting them they will be ewaste and I'll have to buy something new.
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