Honeywell Lyric Thermostat Instructions



You'll never ever need to get up off your couch to change your thermostat again. Honeywell's Lyric Thermostat is one of a new breed of "wise" thermostats that you can regulate utilizing your smartphone. This $279 device can likewise sense when you're arriving home or leaving for work, as well as will immediately set the temperature level in action.

Harkening back to its thermostats from the '50s, the Honeywell Verse is round, with a big white face surrounded by chrome trim. In the center is a small, round touch display that reveals the temperature level. Simply above that is a smaller, arc-shaped display that suggests if the Lyric is home heating or air conditioning, and also what temperature it's attempting to get to. To the left is a climate symbol that, when pressed, reveals your regional forecast generally screen. On the right is a switch that lets you set the Away setting.

Like with the Nest, you can turn the external ring of the Lyric to alter the temperature; soft backlighting (blue for cool, brownish-yellow for warm) includes a wonderful homey touch. The dial approach of altering temperatures is so user-friendly that it's a marvel why thermostat makers abandoned the concept for as long. I chose the Nest below, as turning its dial provided a little bit more resistance.

Generally, the Lyric has an elegant look, however doesn't really feel as streamlined or as costs as the smaller sized Nest.

The Verse comes with an optional white plastic guard that can be utilized to cover up openings, in case you don't feel like spackling.

Honeywell makes setting up the Lyric as basic as feasible. I won't bore you with all the information, yet the process was very similar to installing the Nest. Initially, I downloaded and install the Verse application to my iPhone, and followed the onscreen, detailed guidelines.

I after that had to turn off power to the system. Next off, I had to install the Lyric's baseplate to the wall surface, connect the suitable wires and then affix the top section of the thermostat to the baseplate.

Afterwards, I connected to the Lyric from my phone through Wi-Fi. I after that configured the thermostat's setups to inform it the type of heating and cooling system I had, my wanted temperature levels, and my area. In all, setup took around 15-20 mins.

Unlike the Nest, which has a built-in rechargeable battery, the Lyric calls for a lithium AAA battery, which you need to replace annually. Likewise, when you install the battery, you need to switch on the home heating setting for 5 minutes, after that the cooling cycle for 5 minutes, to make sure that the Lyric can best determine the power demands of your HVAC system, and get the most juice out of the battery.

When you open the Lyric app, a tiny circle on top reveals the existing temperature level in your residence or house, with a blue background to indicate if the Verse remains in cooling down mode, as well as an amber background if it's in home heating setting.

Below this circle are your event setups, such as "I'm leaving residence" as well as "I'm going to sleep." You can develop and also edit these for a variety of situations, such as having the Lyric get in Away mode when you leave your house, or establishing it to enter Eco setting when you go to rest.

Press on the circle on top, as well as it expands to reproduce the controls on the Verse itself. Right here, you can manually change from heating to cooling down settings, change the temperature level using a dial at the end of the screen, check weather and set an Away timer.

The Verse establishes the temperature making use of geofencing. That is, it changes from residence to away settings depending upon when you are residence (more particularly, when your phone is residence). You can set the geofence to either 500 feet or 7 miles, however aggravatingly, this setup is not in the application itself. Instead, it's in the App settings menu on iphone. I additionally wish I might alter the ranges.

The geofencing attribute functioned fairly well. I like that the Lyric started cooling my apartment or condo prior to I obtained residence, so I really did not stroll right into a warm residence. The Verse's Tweak function additionally makes mild adjustments to the temperature based upon exterior environmental conditions. However, there were numerous celebrations when the Lyric failed to realize I had actually left, as well as kept cooling my apartment while I was away. Various other times, it took a while for the Lyric to realize I had actually returned.

The Nest likewise has a couple of other features that the Verse lacks. For one, there's no other way to see when your heating or air conditioning was energetic on the Lyric. Additionally, while you can change every setup on the Nest thermostat's screen, you require the Lyric's mobile app to transform certain settings, such as your area or Wi-Fi password. This could be reviews a problem if you do not have your phone with you.

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