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by post_break 1509 days ago
I love my honeywell thermostat. It has wifi, a touch screen, schedules, and that's it. I can control it from my phone, google home, and no smarts. It gives me energy reports from the same month of last year. The single pane to double pane window showed just how much energy I was saving. I wouldn't touch a "smart" thermostat with a stick, but this dumb wifi thing is incredible.
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TedDoesntTalk 1509 days ago
I have a Nest. I had to watch a 10-minute video to disable all "smarts" on it. It's possible, but painful. I'd rather have your Honeywell.
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bmitc 1509 days ago
We have a Nest in which we turned off all smarts and scheduling, but it was still turning itself on and smoking us out of the house. We could not find any setting, any schedule, or anything that indicated why it was turning on. We ended up having to do a factory reset, and we never connected it back to the WiFi to get rid of these "smart" scheduling features. If anything, the Nest wastes money when using its smart features, as it's never on or off when it needs to be. The most stable room in the house is the basement controlled by a dumb, admittedly ugly thermostat.

The only nice thing about Nests is the overall look, but they're really poor devices. The OS on them constantly lags, causing dial inputs to suddenly "catch up". Each one of our Nests has its own personality: one lags, one turns on when it wants to (prior to factory reset, probably the third or fourth time we've had to do so), and the other one seems to actually just work.

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post_break 1509 days ago
This is the one I have. It came with my house that I bought so I didn't even pick it out so I'm not some shill. The app is kind of old and ugly but I honestly don't even care because it just works. https://www.homedepot.com/p/Honeywell-Home-Wi-Fi-Smart-Color...
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giarc 1509 days ago
"It gives me energy reports from the same month of last year."

I have 2x Nests in my house and I don't know if I'm missing something, but I only get a usage history for the past week. I feel like a "smart" thermostat should tell me a lot more about my usage and it should be pretty trivial to develop.

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