Honeywell Home RTH9600WF Smart Color Thermostat Energy Star Wi-Fi Programmable Touchscreen Alexa Ready - C-Wire Required, Not Compatible with Line Volt Heating

Easy install - easy setup - easy scheduling ability. ‘Smart’ temperature adjustments mean that if it’s the scheduled time to cool the house for bed - the unit will switch to cool and cool the house down, not just turn the heat off and allow it to cool slowly. Reverse for heat - if it’s 68 in the morning and you want the house to be not greater than 72 during the day - at the appointed time - the heat comes on and takes the house to 72 - then will switch to air conditioning to maintain 72. This is great for areas of cold nights and hot days - ‘auto’ means auto and the unit will switch between the HVAC modes to maintain a temp band +\~ 3°.Easy to read across the room - easy to color match with surrounding wall color - even that special shade of ‘white’. The TCC app MAKES SENSE and is easy to use and has remote control operations as long as you have WiFi in the home up and running.This system comes complete with a real manual - no smartphone online PDF nonsense or outdated YouTube videos. Honeywell knows how to do thermostats with complete - easy to understand instructions!!! O couldn’t be happier - finally!!!

Back when we had to have our HVAC serviced, I was told that there was no way to control the aux heat with the Hunter thermostat that I had been using for years. Back when I bought that one, my knowledge of thermostats for HVACs was more limited and since it had a good price and claimed to be able to work with heat pumps, I thought it would be a good one.I have since learned more about them and wanted to find a good one so I chose Honeywell which has been a leader in thermostats for years.I feel that I made a very good choice!Not only does it control the aux heat, it is MUCH easier to read (and from 15-20 feet away), has WIFI capabilities (with an app on the cell but can also use a laptop or tablet), learns your particular unit so it knows how long it takes to reach a desired temp and will adjust appropriately so that it reaches the set temp at the time you want and to beat it all, has the ability to have the background change to ANY color you want to match your decor (or contrast with it).My older Hunter unit worked well otherwise and I certainly realize that as we move forward in time, there are more and more capabilities built in to modern units, but the old one with a simple backlight was still dim and I had to be right in front of it to read the smaller details on it. Another thing is that the new unit does not need a battery to maintain settings and instead uses the required "C" or common wire for power. With the WIFI, you can set the schedule so you can still program it from the comfort of a chair.So far, I'm very happy with this thermostat. About the only thing is that I had to pay extra for a white unit as opposed to a grey unit which seems odd but guess the white one is more in demand.

Used - like new is a great way to save over half on this thermostat. All packaging was complete, all protective plastic in place. This thermostat had never been installed. Mounting plate matched old thermostat, so no new holes needed. No outdoor sensor, so two less wires to worry about. installation was a breeze. WIFI and WIFI app work perfectly. This is a top-of-the-line Honeywell WIFI thermostat, and I could not be happier.

The app for this product is not great. But the product does what it says it will do.

This thermostat is defective and Honeywell/Resideo will do nothing to honor the warranty. The customer service agent tried to argue with me about how it works and he is dead wrong! On a two stage heat pump system it will activate low/high/auxillary staging even within 1 deg F. It should not be activating the aux heat strips, let alone the high upstaging until there is at least several degrees difference. It goes immediately to all three stages and remains in this condition until the temperature is reached, then turns off. This is not how a multi stage thermostat is supposed to operate. It is junk. Resideo told me it will operate any and all stages to raise the temperature even one degree. I was going from 67 to 68 degrees with the outside temperature at 50 degrees. GEEZ. If you do not care about a thermostat that runs up your heating bill by activating all stages of your heat pump and your auxillary heat strips100% of the time then it may work for you. Honeywell tech says this is the way its supposed to work but my other Honeywells have never done this. They were insulting. They refused to honor their warranty and its less than three moths old . Just discovered the issue when it started to get cold. Amazon's return window closed in September so Honeywell has screwed me over. Run away!