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Apr 13, 2016
No frills Wifi thermostat for remote control HVAC
3 of 3 found this helpful I was looking for a replacement thermostat for an old school rotary mechanical thermostat. By the time I looked at top rated 7 day programmable thermostats, they were already in the $50-$60 range and decided to take a look at programmable wifi thermostats to see what will another $50 get you?
The most well known smart thermostat is the Nest, yes it looks cool, has motion sensors, geofencing, and other reporting type functionality but the killer functionality that would matter to me is controlling my thermostat remotely from my phone. I've used programmable thermostats before and just wanted the convenience of remotely adjusting when my daily schedule changes. Getting off early? turn on the air manually while driving home. Don't think I'm too tempted by geofencing and reporting capabilities.
Why not the Nest? My thermostat sits on the second floor in the foyer so the Nest's motion sensor would have done me no good, nor will its good looks matter as it's not in a highly visible location. The other fault I find with the Nest are the terrifying reviews that units can fail in either on or off positions; when/if the unit goes bad it can get stuck on non stop heat or cold. The risk of equipment damage is not worth it to me.
While this thermostat is less well known than the Nest, amazon's search results brought it to my attention and decided that for $50 more than what I was going to spend on a solid programmable it was worth risk.
Installation was easy for me since I only use it with a cooling system, there are practically no instructions in the box as everything is in the app. For my application I had to pretend I had the red and white wires as well and on we went. installation pretty much comes down to shutting of the breaker, remove wires and put them in the same spot on the new thermostat, wall mount/stick the back plate, turn everything back on, continue set up via app, and done.
I did some additional painting since the wall spot was bare and installed the lockstate connect adapter as well to provide the needed C wire for my application. That consisted of drilling a small hole near baseboard and fishing a small ~5 ft run of wire. Another tip, the unit will run wifi even on batteries, if you have existing wiring inside the wall it can connect to C wire there too, the app will only show the keep backlight on option if it has a valid C wire input for power.
DO NOT throw out the thermostat wifi code, initial setup requires your mobile device to connect directly to the thermostat and from there you give it your home network password. If you ever have to replace or reset the unit, you will need this code again.
It's been a week now and so far so good, the plain design blends in nondescriptly and the temp reading is big enough for me to read from downstairs. With the app, I had a schedule set up in no time and was able to turn on the fan and adjust temp on wifi and LTE.
It's not a conversation piece like the nest; it just gets the job done and gets out of my way.
*EDIT*
It's been about a month now and i've been playing with the app mostly since that's where all the settings truly are. The AC protect feature in my opinion should be set to on by default to prevent frequent cycling of equipment. There's also early start which aims to have the house at set temp at the time you want it to be. I found that it turned my ac on about 2 hours+ earlier than my set time. Maybe it learns how long it takes over time but it was simpler for me to just have it come on at set times instead since my first floor stays cool throughout the day anyways. Haven't had any issues at all connecting to the thermostat other than spotty cell service at times.
Update after a whole summer
Thermostat has worked flawlessly over the entire summer, never experienced any connection issues and liked the experience so much that I've gone ahead and bought another one for the downstairs heat control. I did have an issue with the unit reading 9 degrees warmer but a quick call to customer service resolved that in no time. Had to cut the RC/RH jumper wire and that was it. Customer service picked up the phone after just a few rings, not sure if it was a slow day but that was impressive! The app does support more than one thermostat but defaults to the first one, so I have to manually switch over to the second one.
Nov 01, 2017
Small and perfect for bathroom use
Works great in my bathroom to remove moisture in the air, wish the back was white as well to blend in better. The unit features a power interrupt start up delay to protect itself which works great as I have it hooked up to an external humidity controller