Honeywell Home’s First Matter Thermostat Costs Just $80

Sadly, not each smart thermostats are things of beauty for illustration nan latest Nest Learning Thermostat, but that doesn’t mean they can’t prevention you immoderate cash.

This week, Resideo announced nan Honeywell Home X2S Smart Thermostat, an entry-level smart thermostat that looks utilitarian but costs conscionable $79.99 and useful pinch Matter. This intends it supports Apple Home, Amazon Alexa, Google Home, Samsung SmartThings, and different systems for smart location and sound powerfulness of your HVAC system.

Launching this spring, nan X2S is designed to beryllium simple, straightforward, and coming ample powerfulness savings. It features a big, agleam aboveground and large, spongy push buttons for controlling nan temperature. It’s compatible pinch existing Honeywell Home thermostat wiring plates — truthful you mightiness not personification to do immoderate wiring astatine each to instal it. Resideo says that if you usage nan app’s recommended group points, nan X2S tin prevention you an mean of 22 percent connected heating and 17 percent connected cooling.

The X2S is nan first Honeywell Home thermostat to activity pinch Matter, which allows you to powerfulness nan somesthesia and mode from immoderate compatible ecosystem. It too useful pinch Resideo’s First Alert app for overmuch precocious features, specified arsenic scheduling and mounting up an automatic distant mode that uses geofencing to group nan thermostat backmost erstwhile you clip disconnected home, helping prevention energy.

The Energy Star-rated thermostat requires a C ligament and is compatible pinch up to 2 heating and cooling stages connected accepted systems aliases up to 2 heating and 1 cooling style connected powerfulness pump systems. It tin too show humidity and offers air prime replacement reminders, but it won’t activity pinch Honeywell Home’s room sensors.

According to Resideo, adjacent to 80 percent of homes still don’t personification connected thermostats, and this merchandise is designed to beryllium a simple, inexpensive measurement to upgrade. The summation of Matter, which should simplify nan process of connecting to immoderate smart location platform, is too point that would thief push broader return of nan technology.

“The Honeywell Home X2S’s worth constituent and feature group make it nan cleanable upgrade from a non-connected to a connected thermostat, and Matter compatibility helps unlock different smart location benefits crossed different ecosystems,” said David Kaufman, caput of strategical initiatives astatine Resideo.

In position of competition, Google’s non-learning Nest Thermostat supports Matter but costs overmuch astatine $129.99, and Meross conscionable announced a Matter thermostat for $99. Both personification overmuch style than nan X2S and spot connected touch-sensitive interfaces alternatively than ample buttons. Amazon has a likewise priced Smart Thermostat, but it only supports Alexa.