Honeywell Lyric Thermostat Locked



You'll never ever need to get up off your couch to alter your thermostat once more. Honeywell's Lyric Thermostat is one of a new breed of "smart" thermostats that you can control using your smartphone. This $279 device can additionally pick up when you're arriving home or leaving for work, as well as will instantly set the temperature in action.

Harkening back to its thermostats from the '50s, the Honeywell Lyric is round, with a big white face bordered by chrome trim. In the center is a little, round touch screen that shows the temperature. Simply over that is a smaller, arc-shaped screen that suggests if the Lyric is heating or air conditioning, and also what temperature level it's trying to reach. To the left is a weather condition icon that, when pushed, shows your neighborhood forecast in the main screen. On the right is a button that allows you set the Away mode.

Like with the Nest, you can transform the outer ring of the Verse to transform the temperature; soft backlighting (blue for great, brownish-yellow for cozy) includes a nice homey touch. The dial technique of altering temperatures is so instinctive that it's a marvel why thermostat makers deserted the suggestion for so long. I favored the Nest right here, as transforming its dial provided a little bit much more resistance.

Overall, the Verse has a stylish look, yet does not really feel as smooth or as premium as the smaller Nest.

The Verse features an optional white plastic shield that can be utilized to cover up holes, in instance you don't feel like spackling.

Honeywell makes setting up the Verse as simple as possible. I won't bore you with all the information, but the process was really similar to setting up the Nest. First, I downloaded and install the Verse app to my iPhone, and complied with the onscreen, detailed guidelines.

I after that had to shut off power to the system. Next off, I needed to place the Verse's baseplate to the wall, attach the suitable cables and afterwards affix the leading section of the thermostat to the baseplate.

Afterwards, I attached to the Verse from my phone using Wi-Fi. I after that configured the thermostat's setups to inform it the sort of cooling and heating system I had actually, my preferred temperatures, as well as my place. In all, arrangement took about 15-20 mins.

Unlike the Nest, which has an integrated rechargeable battery, the Verse requires a lithium AAA battery, which you require to change yearly. Likewise, as soon as you install the battery, you require to turn on the home heating setting for 5 minutes, after that the cooling cycle for 5 mins, so that the Verse can best determine the power needs of your HEATING AND COOLING system, and also get the most juice out of the battery.

When you open the Verse application, a little circle at the top reveals the present temperature level in your residence or apartment or condo, with a blue history to indicate if the Verse remains in cooling down setting, as well as an amber history if it's thermostat in home heating setting.

Underneath this circle are your event settings, such as "I'm leaving house" as well as "I'm going to rest." You can produce and edit these for a variety of conditions, such as having the Lyric go into Away setting when you leave your residence, or setting it to go into Eco mode when you go to rest.

Continue the circle at the top, as well as it increases to reproduce the controls on the Lyric itself. Below, you can by hand switch from home heating to cooling settings, alter the temperature using a dial at the bottom of the display, check weather conditions and also established an Away timer.

The Verse establishes the temperature level using geofencing. That is, it switches from home to away modes depending on when you are home (even more particularly, when your phone is house). You can establish the geofence to either 500 feet or 7 miles, but annoyingly, this setup is not in the application itself. Rather, it remains in the App setups food selection on iphone. I likewise desire I can alter the distances.

The geofencing function worked relatively well. I such as that the Lyric started cooling my house prior to I got residence, so I didn't stroll into a hot home. The Verse's Fine Tune feature additionally makes minor adjustments to the temperature level based on exterior ecological problems. Nevertheless, there were multiple celebrations when the Lyric fell short to realize I had actually left, and kept cooling my apartment while I was away. Other times, it took a while for the Lyric to recognize I had actually returned.

The Nest also has a couple of other functions that the Verse does not have. For one, there's no way to see when your home heating or air conditioning was active on the Verse. Also, while you can change every setup on the Nest thermostat's display screen, you need the Verse's mobile app to change certain settings, such as your place or Wi-Fi password. This could be a concern if you do not have your phone with you.

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