Honeywell Home Lyric Round Wi-Fi Thermostat - Second Generation (RCH9310WF)

They start off by telling you on the box that if you don't have this thermostat installed professionally, you void the five year warranty. That means you, homeowner!The app then lead to very carefully through the installation of the new thermostat, and it does a great job with the electrical and mechanical bits. Thermostat wiring can vary quite a bit, so they have you take a picture, and tell the app what wires you see. These appear later in a diagram when you're doing hook up.Wall mounting is easy and the device even comes with a built-in level so you can get that right.The software installation is not nearly so clear. At one point, you would expect it to list the Wi-Fi services that it can see, but it couldn't find the three services I had blasting in the room. I ended up entering the necessary wifi info for one of them. Apparently it took, but the app did not seem to realize this. This left me continuing to try to reconfigure it, getting an error message that said it was already configured.I never got a "congratulations your thermostat is hooked up to the Internet! "Message from either the app or the thermostat. But clearly that's what happened.The app needs to switch back-and-forth between your Wi-Fi network, and the thermostats Wi-Fi network. But the switches are not made clear, and the activity meter gives no indication what it is waiting for, so you can sit there for minutes waiting for something to happen. They really need to work on this part.I followed the directions for hooking this up to my SmartThings hub, and that seems to integrate just fine. There are still a lot of features involved in all this that I haven't figured out, but the basic seem to be working just fine.Aside from the set up confusions, this seems like a fine product. I'm looking forward to using it.-- revised review:I bought two of these, with great hopes. Honeywell has been in the thermostat business for a long time, and these were to replace two of their old model.The first one stopped working: it would boot, and just sit there through its partially-display sunburst initialization. I could find no documentation for its status. I contacted Honeywell, and we went through some quite technical debugging, involving special wiring and my voltmeter. They were well-prepared to do this, and eventually sent me a new thermostat, which worked fine.Then my second thermostat stopped working, its booting halting somewhere else during initialization. And the first one? It now appears to work, but doesn't turn on the furnace.So these devices have two problems:- they seem to de after a few months, and- their diagnostics are totally useless. This is a shame, since they are little computers with displays, and could in principle supply exact error condition indications, with web-accessible documentation for dealing with them.So, I have reverted to the old thermostats, and am looking for some other new ones.

It's very cool. It works well. Awesome but... it has some trouble with HomeKit. Not totally ready for prime time. The last update seemed to fix some of the connections to my phone. I run the home from my iPad. Very important that you set up a hub. The iHome smart plugs were SO easy to instal but for this I had the HVAC dude out. I didn't want to screw it up. Prolly something a handy dude could do himself. Whatevs. So I'm not that dude. Now the Lyric is set up, and most of the time it talks to my phone and my iPad. Even when I'm gone. But you prolly will get messages in your Apple ecosystem that the Lyric is "updating." It usually plays nice, but sometimes its gonna happen. If you can't deal then don't get this thermo cuz its not perfect. I totally thinks it is SO awesome I just wait for it to come back. It's not like I change the temp 5 times a day. I set it and leave it. Switches on the AC as needed. Will even switch between heat and AC auto. It lights up when you walk by. I kinda like that--pretty cool.UPDATED 5/13/2017:Ok, so Lyric has done some major firmware updates, and Apple updated to iOS 10.3. The thermostat is now totally awesome. Never goes off line any more. It is always synced to my Apple Home--iPad, iPhone whatever. And now 5 stars earned. My best bud saw it and went home to order one for his house. It's that cool... and hot when needed.

What was described as “slightly new” was disclosed by the Honeywell tech as an 8-year old device (according to when it registered). Not a direct swap and problem resolved item being after painstakingly trying to setup on the Resideo app, as “item already registered to another account.” Other than that, told by tech, component is an “obsolete” device. Other than that, no real issues.

This replaced a Honeywell touchscreen smart thermostat that was driving me crazy. So far, the Lyric thermostat is working great.The Lyric app is much improved over the Honeywell Total Connect Comfort app (which seems like it's on the way out, judging by the old-school graphics). The Lyric also has Apple HomeKit integration, which is going to be gaining more traction, especially when iOS 10 is released in the fall.The Lyric is dead-simple to install, with clear step-by-step instructions from the app. Even connecting to my home's wifi was painless. The Lyric looks great, too and feels very well made. I like that the display automatically wakes up and brightens when you walk up to it...a nice touch.IMHO, four simple tweaks would make the Lyric just about perfect and a 5 star product:1) The display on the Lyric should show the relative humidity below the indoor temp.2) There should be a way of turning the fan on/off from the thermostat (right now, the only way to turn the fan on/off is through the Lyric app).3) The app should show, in addition to the current indoor temp and temp set point, much more information and it should be user selectable. Info that I'd appreciate having: Whether or not the system is actually running; How long the system has been running in the past hour/12 hours/24 hours, etc4) The filter change reminder should be based on actual running time and not just "30/60/90" calendar days. During spring and fall, our system rarely runs, so there's no need to change the filter in 30 days if the system has only run for a few hours that month.Bottom line: The Lyric is a solid smart thermostat and with just a few firmware/software tweaks, will be great.