Honeywell Home T6R-HW Wireless Smart Thermostat with Hot water control — WiFi App-Enabled to and Improve Efficiency — Compatible with Apple HomeKit, Google Home, Amazon Alexa and and IFTTT

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You can either choose to setup a schedule for grouped days (e.g. Mon-Fri and Sat-Sun) to easily replicate the same behaviour over multiple days, or you can opt for a day-by-day setup allowing you to have a different routine every day. We found the geofence feature worked well most of the time, but it will require a little more battery from your smartphone so it’s worth keeping an eye on your power level if you’re running low. While you have a reasonable amount of freedom when it comes to the placement of the T6R, you need to make sure it's in a room that is representative of your home's average temperature; there's no point placing it in a conservatory or a room that's generally poorly heated, as you'll end up wasting power and money. Design and display While the main thermostat of the Honeywell Lyric T6R simply needs to be connected to a power outlet, there’s a second box that comes with it that attaches to your boiler and so needs to be installed by a professional. Initially the T6R struggled to connect to our smartphone and home WiFi, but after a couple of attempts we were up and running.

There’s also a dedicated holiday mode where you input the dates you are away and the application can make sure your house is heated for your return, without using any unnecessary energy while you’re away - which all helps to reduce your bills. Unlike some others, it also doesn't learn patterns of usage, or provide you details on how much energy you’ve used/saved. We likedThe touchscreen display dominates the front of the thermostat, with the current temperature of your home proudly displayed in the middle. This figure is large on the screen, making it easy to read from across a room. You’ll need to head into your smart assistant’s dedicated phone app and link your Honeywell account and the Lyric T6R as a device on the service. Once linked up you can ask your smart speaker – or other assistant-powered device – what the temperature currently is, and to turn the T6R up, down, off and on. The Lyric application (available on both iOS and Android) provides a relatively straightforward step-by-step guide on how to set up the thermostat.

It’s useful to have voice control, especially if your hands are full, your phone isn't available, or the thermostat is in a different room. The easy-to-use Lyric application makes adjusting the heating easy from anywhere in the world, and the added geofence feature takes away the need to remember to turn the system on/off when you return/leave home.Once set up, the core feature within the Honeywell Lyric app is the schedule, allowing you to fine-tune when you want your heating to go on and off, and the target temperature for when it's on. You can adjust the size of the radius around your home, with those living in more rural areas ideally wanting a larger radius, while those in towns and cities are best off using a smaller radius to ensure you’re not triggering the heating when you’re out shopping. Honeywell offers a range individual radiator-valve thermostats, but the Lyric T6R is not compatible with any of them, meaning you’re limited to a single zone of control, rather than being able to control the temperature in different rooms independently. When manually overridden you can select how long the Lyric T6R should follow the new command before returning to your schedule, which is a useful feature if you’re looking for a few hours of heat before leaving the house or going to sleep.