The ease of manually controlling the thermostat's temperature set-point, heating/cooling schedule, home/away and vacation features - when they are available - through the thermostat and mobile app.

When Nest, a startup co-founded by former iPod honcho Tony Fadell, announced its classy, web-enabled, touch-screen thermostat back in the fall of 2011, you just knew that Honeywell–long the biggest ...

Honeywell’s been doing its thing for well over a century now, with its thermostatic roots stretching back even further to the 19 th century days of coal heating. The company’s connected thermostat ...

Good news if you’re in the market for your first smart thermostat: You don’t have to break the bank for a feature-rich model.

Last week Honeywell announced the Lyric, its answer to the Nest learning thermostat. Today, we got a chance to see the WiFi-connected smart device in person. Retailing for $279 starting in August, the ...

Honeywell's version didn't work all that well. Rather than relying on an algorithm to adjust the heat and A/C like the Nest, the Lyric used geofencing tied to the location of your phone. (You set a ...

Honeywell announced today that it launched Lyric, a Wi-Fi enabled thermostat. It is the first product in a forthcoming line of connected home products for the company. The Lyric thermostat connects to ...

The X2S goes back to basics but still packs plenty of smarts. The X2S goes back to basics but still packs plenty of smarts. Sadly, not all smart thermostats are things of beauty like the latest Nest ...