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

Nice Upgrade From a “Dumb” Honey to a “Smart” Honey … But Some Cons With a Couple of Tips
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.

Works well. Follow directions. Read Amazon reviews for +Tips* on install and use.
We purchased this WiFi thermostat feeling it was about time to get a more updated programmable thermostat. We read of the newer WiFi “Smart” thermostats, and waited a few years since the first ones showed up some +5 or 6 years ago.Some of them seemed a bit sparse in what they displayed for information without having to enter menu screens and also were even smaller than this Honeywell model RTH9585. This model is still on the small side but has a large enough and dimmable screen to view. It brightens temporarily if you wish to change a setting like increase, decrease or hold a new temp setting. Then it returns the screen brightness setting to whatever back light setting you have made in the “Preferences Menu”. Very handy.It also has many other settings to accommodate your personal use choices.As you have probably already read or can read in other reviews or on the Honeywell website, setup is pretty easy, but need to follow directions and it does help if a person is a bit “Tech Savvy”. I am older and can navigate TV and other electronics settings, so if you can to do those things you should be fine with this Smart Thermostat. Or if you have someone else set it up for you, daily use is a breeze.One thing I would mention is that there is a “Smart Response Technology” setting in the “Preferences Menu” that you may want to turn off if you want the thermostat to JUST simply follow your weekly Temperature and Time settings. Otherwise, the thermostat will take note of any “temporary” increase or decrease degree settings you make for heating or cooling and modify programming. When it does this, the thermostat will display ” Following Recovery Schedule” or similar. It does this because the thermostat is anticipating temperature setting changes you may have made on the fly during recent days or weeks where you just wanted to turn it up or down at some particular time.This “Smart Response Technology” setting was making changes we did not want it to follow. . . . so we turned it off in the Preferences Setting. All is well . .. you just need to read directions to assure the thermostat is doing what you want it to. In our case . . . we just wanted it to follow a weekday schedule the we programmed ourselves.One other helpful installation tip I can pass along is that the Honeywell was a bit smaller than our old set back thermostat. They sell over size backing or wall plates for thermostats, but I did not care for the shape, color or size that was available and also they cost $8 to +$15.Instead, I took some measurements and found that a standard “3 Gang Plastic Switch Plate” with a little manicured cut out (hobby or jewelry saw) in the center to accommodate the wire connections would do the trick. I traced an outline of what needed to be cut out using the Honeywell thermostat backing plate onto the 3 Gang Switch Plate. A picture shows about where it needed to be enlarged in the center. The Honeywell RTH9585 thermostat will neatly cover all the other rectangular and round screw holes.I then simply applied two thin coats of a satin silver finish spray paint I happened to have from another craft project. I “dusted” on the second coat from further way from the switch plate to give it a bit more textured appearance and feel. It contrasts and compliments the Honeywell thermostat silver color nicely, but any color you choose will work especially if you wish to change the color of the thermostat display screen as provided in the Setting Menu.So far, the thermostat is working well. One other point is that the thermostat does update the room temp it displays. . . but slowly. In fact, it may look like it never changes, but the thermostat DOES “see” and operate the furnace or A/C according to whatever you have programmed.We hope this might supply some helpful or added info and experience to the other fine Amazon reviews.

Tiene todas las cualidades inteligentes que puede tener un termostato para manejarlo tanto en el lugar, como en forma remota desde la aplicación del teléfono.

المنتج متوافق مع خوادم الانترنت في الولايات المتحدة الأمريكية فقط ،و لا يعمل التطبيق و لا يمكن تسجيلة في المملكة العربية السعودية ،بامكانك التحكم به من خلال المتصفح بعد تسجيل المنتج و كأنك تقيم في إحدى الولايات الأمريكية ،و ستحصل في المقابل على توقعات الطقس و اليوم و التاريخ و الساعة و كأن في إحدى المدن الأمريكية !!تواصلت مع الدعم الفني و كان ما سبق هم الملخص