4 reviews for Honeywell Home RTH9585WF1004 Wi-Fi Smart Color Thermostat, 7 Day Programmable, Touch Screen, Energy Star, Alexa Ready, Gray

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   Rated 5 out of 5

   John S. – 25 November 2024

   
   I have four Honeywell thermostats in service. My house, my sister’s house, my other sister’s house, my girlfriend’s house. We are all happy that the thermostats are easy to use and that they have Wifi access so they can be controlled remotely.This is important to me because I travel a lot and one of my sister’s houses is often vacant. It is very nice to know what is going on with the air temperature and humidity in the houses when no one is there.This thermostat is petit. It sticks out from the wall a little bit, but much less so that most other thermostats. It is attractive. It looks nice. You can set the screen colors as you like. It is quite nice while also being completely functional and easy to control remotely.I had a HVAC company install three of the four that I have because I had not worked with gas or heat pumps and the wiring was nonstandard in the old houses. But it was well worth having the professional installation.This thermostat, as with almost all new thermostats, needs the C Common or ground lead. Older thermostats simply supplied 24v AC to wherever it needed to go such as the compressor or fan, but newer thermostats need to be powered and they need their own return (ground or C) wire for 24v AC ground. Just be aware. Honeywell makes that very clear in their instructions. I had to add that wire in all my installations. Not a big deal. Just be aware.

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   Rated 5 out of 5

   ChicagoGuy – 6 December 2022

   
   I had a standard, basic “Dumb” Honeywell for many years and worked perfectly, although I had to manually change settings from the basic 5/2 day schedule to override them. Having Alexa, I wanted to have the ease to change it via voice as well as when I am not home, so I bought the “Smart” Honeywell.After a week, here are my pros and cons:PROS- INTERFACE: Despite what other reviewers have said, I find the interface intuitive and just fine to configure the device.- TOUCHSCREEN: I had none of the horror stories about the touchscreen, listed throughout these reviews. The interface worked surprisingly well and I never had to push anything more than once ever.- SIZE: The thermostat is surprisingly small, compared to my “Dumb” Honey, and I like it more.- TEMP: The temp has been spot on.- DOCUMENTATION: The documentation is complete and most DYI’ers will have no issue following them.- WIFI: Zero issues connecting it to my Wifi.- ALEXA: Zero issues integrating with Alexa. Voice control worked instantly after integration.- INTERFACE: One of the reasons I chose this one was because unlike pricier options, this one shows the external temp and humidity which is a great quick check without having to look anywhere else to verify.- REGISTRATION: Registering the device with the Honeywell website was easy.CONS- WIRE CONNECTORS – Having installed many thermostats, this one was easily the worst and VERY delicate to insert wires. I can see why many consumers, even experienced ones, broke the terminal connectors when attempting to insert them. There is VERY little room to work on the wall plate, and there are no screws like all the others I have ever installed. As a result, here is what I found. First, if you push the first wire in too far and forcefully, the other connectors will be “open” and won’t accept the next wire. The next connector will be “loose” and never grip the second wire, and the FIRST one will fall out. I had to take a tweezer with a bent end to “reset” the first connector and then all the connectors reset and I could begin again. (I was ready to return it.) Second, on my next attempt, I realized that you insert a wire until you feel resistance and then “gently” push the wire in like .25 mm (barely nothing) until you feel the slightest click on your finger. Believe it or not, that small amount is all it takes to grip the wire securely. Start on the top of each side and work down gently until all the wires are installed.- FAN: Strangely, the “Dumb” Honey had “ON”, “OFF”, “AUTO” but “Smart” Honey has “ON”, “AUTO”, “CIRCULATING”. As a result, I have to trust the thermostat to run the fan on its own and I cannot turn if off completely, short of turning off the heat or A/C. At this point, the fan seems to be following a more “intelligent” function related to the heating and does turn itself off when it sees fit.-HUMIDITY: Although the temp is spot on, I have 2 humidistats in the house that are both consistent by the humidity percentage on the “Smart” Honey seems off by 5% and varies from the other two. The thermostat has a configuration setting to adjust the default up or down by degrees you choose, but I have fiddled with this setting and have not seen a consistency in “Smart” Honey with my other two humidistats, one which is 5 feet away from “Smart” Honey. After a couple of attempts, the “Smart” Honey seems to lag on internal humidity value, while at other times, it’s showing the same value.Overall, “Smart” Honey has definitely won my affections with its verbal attention to my requests and interface. As “Dumb” Honey sits on my counter, dejected, I have assured it that I am keeping it as a backup just in case this new Honey goes bonkers, breaks or increases my utility bills.

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   Rated 5 out of 5

   Rich in Boise – 18 August 2020

   
   See a couple of my amateur install tips at the end of my review. I just bought two of these for upstairs and downstairs to replace the hard to see, hard to program and non-wifi thermostats that came with our Carrier HVAC system. These Honeywell Thermostats are miles ahead of the ones I replaced. Install was super easy, they are easy to see and program and the touch screens (while not as good as your phone touch screens) work pretty well. The real prize with these thermostats is that once hooked up and setup they work perfect either direct touch or via your wifi using a phone or tablet app. My wife is a low-tech person and she says these are easy to use. She really is the ultimate user-friendly test at our house. So here are a couple of things I figured out during install:1) Make sure all of the power is off when you uninstall the old thermostat and install the new ones. I turned off the power to furnace and A/C but the circuits were mislabeled so the thermostat wires sparked and caused the furnace circuit board to trip due to a “short”. After the install was complete and the thermostat failed to start I powered off the entire system and restarted it. The new thermostat came right up and walked me through the setup. The second one installed flawlessly because I shut the power off correctly.2)Take a pic of the thermostat wiring and also write down the wire colors because you will be hooking up the same wires to the same terminals on the new thermostat. It’s simple.3) There are two apps available for your phones/tablets. The Total Comfort Connect one by Resideo was the one I liked best but there is also a Honeywell Home app that works fine. The Resideo app has more info and the user interface is really good. My wife likes the Honeywell app because it is really simple…like, up and down arrows to change temp on the front page and today’s weather for our zip code. If you want to do anything else you dig for it. The Resideo has a few extras for programming a schedule. I just like the control, my wife doesn’t. The beauiful part is that you can have both apps on the same phone and they all work fine together. I think Resideo took over the Honeywell home thermostat business…there is some relationship there.4) It will hook up to Alexa if you use the app. The Alexa handling of the thermostat is kinda clunky and we probably won’t use it. Nice try Alexa!5) When you setup the thermostat be ready with your wifi name and password. Also you will need to set up an account at Honeywell but it only took, maybe, a minute or two. Very non-threatening!Finally, we love these thermostats. It is nice to leave the windows open when the weather is nice and with the wifi phone apps it is a snap to turn off our hvac systems without running up and downstairs and fooling around with the wall mounted thermostats. Best tech money we’ve spent in a long time.

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   Rated 4 out of 5

   Luis Mendoza – 22 February 2024

   Es justo lo que necesitaba
   El termostato es bastante robusto en términos de instalación y calidad. Pero es muy amigable de operar desde un móvil, computadora o bien desde el mismo equipo (manual).Lo que me encanta es que lo puedo controlar desde mi celular y ni siquiera tengo que estar en la casa. Puedo prenderlo, apagarlo, ajustar temperatura y programar un itinerario a control remoto.