2024 the best smart thermostat review
Price: $97.99
(as of Dec 08, 2024 22:11:11 UTC - Details)
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The T5 Smart Thermostat allows you to take comfort knowing your home temperature will always be just how you like it. It's easy to install and use and conveniently fits in with your lifestyle. The T5 thermostat is ENERGY STAR certified and you can program it based on your schedule, or let it adapt to your life as plans change. Control the T5 Wi-Fi Thermostat from anywhere simply by using your smartphone or tablet: helping keep life simple and removing the guesswork, while ensuring maximum comfort when you're at home and saving you money on your energy bills.
High use of the scheduling feature of the T5 thermostat saved customers between 8 and 16% on heating and cooling bills. Dollar savings range based on nationwide average annual single-family detached home's heat and cooling bills; actual savings varies based on consumption.
Save Energy and Get Rewarded. Check with your energy provider about available energy savings rebates to save on your purchase. Plus, eligible customers can enroll in their local Utility's "DEMAND RESPONSE PROGRAM" which can reward you for allowing the utility to slightly adjust your AC or furnace temperature settings when there is high energy demand.
7-Day Flexible Scheduling or Location Based Temperature Control. It’s your choice. 7-day scheduling programs your thermostat. Geofence technology helps make you comfortable by using your smartphone’s location to know when you’re away and when you return.
Auto Home and Away Mode. Enjoy ideal temperatures at home, then save when away.
ENERGY STAR certified. Help save energy, track your heating and cooling with monthly energy reports and get personalized tips on reducing energy use.
C-WIRE POWER ADAPTER REQUIRED: Before purchasing, check to see if this thermostat is compatible with your home and to determine if your home needs a C-wire power adapter.
Works with most heat/cool oil furnace systems. Will not work with heating only oil furnace systems unless a C-Wire is present.
The T5 thermostat is ENERGY STAR certified and you can program it based on your schedule, or let it adapt to your life as plans change
Reviewer: Kevin
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Plug and play replacement for dumb Honeywell thermostat
Review: I bought this to replace a dumb Honeywell "Pro Series" thermostat that came with my house. It uses the same mounting system so it was as easy as turning off power, popping off the old unit and putting this one on. No switching backplates or patching holes in the drywall. Setup could have gone more smoothly, there were delays in receiving the email confirmation to set up my account. Eventually I was able to create it and get the thermostat connected. So far it is working well and is connected to Google Home. I do wish it showed both the current temperature and the settlement temperature when the unit is "asleep" but a quick tap displays all of the information. Not as fancy as some other units with color displays but the ease of installation in my situation meant this was an easy choice.
Reviewer: Leonard Powell
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Looks and feels like a smart phone
Review: Elegant look and feel. Screen is dark until you touch it. The app is really nice too. Now I can set temps from the road. My house has an HVAC system with single stage heat pump, and this works fine. It appears that it will also work with some multi-stage systems. The best way to tell if this will work it to look at your thermostat wiring on your furnace air handler controller, not at your thermostat on the wall. It did the latter and it was misleading. There were unnecessary wires on my wall thermostat, leading me to believe I had multistage, when I did not.
Reviewer: Kyle Harrold
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: I could just about drop kick this "smart" POS.
Review: What can I say, it is a thermostat and it looks nice, I bought it for these reasons. I bought it in April of 2023 right after I had a leak repaired and the old thermostat looked very dated in a freshly painted room. It installed very easily and It really does look nice and new in the room. Once up I was pretty happy with it. I set a schedule and that's where the enjoyment stopped. As time went on I began to wonder if I had a leak or something, I had one in the past after all. It would not cool, and the temperature in the house would rise. I'd set it to 71 but the temp would slide degree by degree to 77 (which is what it was scheduled to hit at 11pm) and stay there for the night. Suddenly waking up freezing in the morning. The pillows in the bedroom were muggy and damp intermittently. Some days we'd sit at 77 degrees for no reason. The heat pump is running near 24/7 trying to cool the house....Luckily I am pretty DIY and troubleshooting for hobby so I bought gauges to monitor my unit and learned what Superheat and subcooling are. I determined that I don't have a leak! So what is it? I have an energy saver cycling box from the power company, I have that taken off, it takes a few weeks for them to do it. but my problem persists! I'm going mad, inject dye to search for leaks? I change filters, etc etc. anything i can. I'm debating draining the unit, perhaps the repair guy put in too much or incompatible oil!I begin to suspect the thermostat, all the internet says it couldn't be the thermostat, no no It could never.. But I say I say you know what let's reset the thing and strip away features. So I did, Reset it, turned off scheduling, wifi, and anything else "smart", got into the special menu and found "adaptive recovery" looked it up and determined this and scheduling were my problems! Because I wanted 72 from 8am to 5pm but the 77 at 11pm. The stupid "smart" algorithm thought that meant I want to be 72 in 8am and for the rest of the day slowly drift to 77 by 11pm and then freeze us half to death at 5am to be 72 again by 8am. If I set my schedule to all 72 degrees it will never leave 72 even on a "hold". I assume because of crap programming that adaptive recovery does not take into account the "hold" or manual input/changes which is bullcrap.I decided to see how badly programmed this algorithm was. I put a schedule on with crazy temperatures like 50F at 8am and 90f at 5am or something. The stupid thing would actually turn the HEAT ON to after 8am so that it be 90F by 11pm even though the cool setting was set to be 50F at that time. what a dumb program. Heating when it should be cooling!I was smart enough to figure this out and disable these features, I won't even use the schedule now Im too afraid too Which is same because I really wanted to let the AC drift off temp at night but its not worth it to trigger the "smart" alogrhtium's stupidity which seems to have the ability to override your manual temperature settings even without being turned on. I see no where to fully disable this "smart" features.I feel bad for anyone that calls HVAC specialists to try to fix these issues and they get talked into the a whole new system because of some programmers' poor programming skills.
Reviewer: Jim J
Rating: 4.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Almost perfect, great for the price!
Review: So far, so good. Easy to install, even for a novice. I was missing a "C" Wire to power the unit, but with very clear instructions, videos, and top notch customer support, I was able to repurpose an unused wire in the cable bundle and get it up and running.It functions as expected, though I haven't tried the Geofencing features yet (we have four people in the house and I work as a freelancer from home, so geofencing isn't as needed). The scheduling and ability to control and monitor my house temp from anywhere is pretty nice. Having it automatically choose between the furnace and the AC when it needs too works well too.Not quite as "pretty" as other thermostats like it, but it's a thermostat . . . and it's easily more stylish than the one installed with my home.I'm not giving it a 5 star rating only due to it's Lyric app for the phone. Even though getting it set up on the network wasn't overly difficult, it didn't work as per the instructions and I had to go a little deeper to get it on the wireless network. Programming it is a bit unclear, the user interface isn't as intuitive as it could be. It appears they are trying to put form over function and it makes it a little ambiguous as to what mode it's operating in and what to do to set it up. Siri integration is a novelty at this time as it is limited and doesn't alway function correctly. I believe with a little more work, Siri could become very good, I love being able to control things in my house with my Apple Watch.
Reviewer: Lilie Zendel
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
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Review: Not only is the scale accurate to the ounce but attractive and lightweight.
Reviewer: quinn mitchell
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
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Review: People complain about the setup but are usually technologically illiterate. Setup was fast and easy. Longevity wise it hadnât disconnect from the wifi by itself at all. The mobile app itself is a little buggy. If you were to change the temperature In app sometimes it changes back to what the schedule was set at by itself. Other than that, it works flawlessly with both wifi and Apple HomeKit.
Reviewer: Kevs
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
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Review: Excelente producto, funciona muy bien e increÃble relación calidad-precio, tiene muchas funcionalidades como uso con Siri, que otros productos (incluso de la misma marca) no tienen. La instalación es super fácil, si ya tienes cableado con otro termostato hay que asegurarse que tenga el cable C.Yo instale el termostato desde la calefacción y solo necesite comprar cable eléctrico que tenÃa 6 cables de colores dentro. Muy muy fácil de instalar.La programación también es muy fácil. Si eres de México hay que poner en paÃs a EUA para que te permita configurarlo pero al terminar la configuración, cambiar el paÃs a México y ya te permite poner tu dirección para que veas la temperatura exterior.Excelente compra.
Reviewer: Mark Beacham
Rating: 1.0 out of 5 stars
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Review: This product is rubbish. The wifi constantly disconnects making the device disappear from the app and from homekit. The worst problem is that the device will not accept wifi keys with special characters in it. Difficult to set up, unreliable networking. Keep clear of this guys!
Reviewer: Michael
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
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Review: I like the modern look you can use the smart phone to adjust temperature if you want from anywhere with wifi
Customers say
Customers like the ease of installation, value for money, and appearance of the product. They mention it's simple and intuitive to set up schedules, and controls easily by using their cell phones. Some also say it looks great. However, some customers have reported connectivity issues with advanced settings on modern home routers. Opinions differ on functionality, thermostat control, and geofencing feature.
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