Was dead set against wireless sensors for years, finally gave in

Honestly, I thought wireless stuff was just for lazy installers who didn't care about reliability. But after running a retrofit job in a 1920s brick building in Chicago where fishing wires was a nightmare, I tried a Honeywell 5800 series and it's been rock solid for 8 months now. Anyone else been forced to switch and actually liked it?

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tara79324d ago

Honeywell finally convinced you, huh, feels like admitting your pet fish is smarter than you thought?

wesley18124d ago

See it more like realizing my old thermostat was basically a brick with numbers on it.

sarah_patel2524d ago

Actually it points to something bigger about how we think about these connected devices. The real issue is nobody ever taught us what a smart thermostat could actually do, and the manufacturers sure weren't going to explain it in plain English. We got sold on "you can change the temperature from your phone" which is like selling a smartphone as a really good calculator. The learning part is huge - ours figured out that we like it cooler at night and warmer on weekends without me programming any schedule. There's also the geofencing which kicks the heat down when it senses nobody's home, something a brick with numbers definitely can't do.