Honeywell expose new ‘Lyric’ wise house Thermostat, coming to the UK

earlier this week Honeywell exposed its new wise house Wi-Fi thermostat in the USA.

The ‘Lyric’ controls heating as well as cooling from its LED-illuminated ring. The built-in proximity sensor turns on the display as you approach and shows the present temperature along with the current heating or cooling status. Its ‘halo ring’ glows orange for heating, blue for cooling as well as of program eco-friendly for savings.

The Lyric definitely looks similar to that other well understood round wise house stat. Nest’s recent purchase by Google increased concerns over potential privacy issues and Nest also suffered a recent embarrassing product withdrawal. Wether those problems concern you or not, the new Honeywell stats will provide purchasers a huge brand alternate to Nest.

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Famous podcaster Leo Laporte eliminated his Nest stats questioning the effectiveness of their discovering capability after his energy usage went up. Honeywell are keen to differentiate their product stressing the method it works is different…

“Most people don’t have a predictable pattern to exactly how they online their lives; why not have a thermostat that adjusts based on your real-time schedule?” states Beth Wozniak, president of Honeywell environmental as well as Combustion Controls. “With the Lyric thermostat’s geofencing capability, my home returns to my favored comfort setting when I’m within a few miles from home. rather simply, the Lyric thermostat offers me the capability to keep my life in tune – providing comfort when I’m house as well as cost savings when I’m gone.”

Lyric has the ability to pair with several smartphones as well as tablets (Android / iOS) as well as employs your mobile device to configuration actions based on geofencing. The system understands if you’re house or away (providing your phone isn’t down the back of the sofa) as well as can act accordingly, shutting off the heating / cooling when you leave or turning it on as you head home.

Honeywell’s specified aim is to create an entire Lyric wise house platform, with a variety of products in the works currently. exposed as one of Apple’s HomeKit partners just last week, it will be fascinating to see what Honeywell come up with for the wise house over the coming months.

“We’re thrilled to be establishing thermostats that will work with Apple’s new HomeKit accessory Protocol. HomeKit will enable us to provide a simple as well as simple experience for our customers, with the capability to securely pair as well as manage gadgets throughout the home including integration with Siri.”

The low voltage version of the Lyric Wi-Fi thermostat is available to buy now in the USA with HW installers (DIY outlets will comply with in August).

We asked Honeywell what their plans are regarding the Lyric on this side of the pond. It appears like we’ll have to wait up until next year for a UK version to replace our mains wired stats right here as Honeywell would only state ‘2015’. Check out the video as well as the links below.

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