Managing your heating bills in the age of climate change can be a hassle, as unpredictable weather patterns bring rapid temperature shifts. With a networked HVAC system, you can adjust your heating and cooling from your phone or with your voice, as well as tap into advanced features like AI learning, automated scheduling and activity monitoring. If you’re celebrating the end of summer by upgrading your smart home with a smart thermostat, we’ve got a few really good price drops on models from all the top brands in August.
We gave an Editors’ Choice award to Google’s Nest Smart Thermostat in our review, raving about its ease of use, attractive design and simple installation. Unlike the Learning Thermostat, this model doesn’t use AI to predict usage and automatically refine its settings, but it does suggest potential adjustments to you, warn you about potential issues in your HVAC system, and work with with Amazon Alexa and Google Assistant voice commands for hands-free operation. It’s one of the best budget thermostats on the market, especially with a price drop bringing it to $100.
This affordable unit gets even more so with a 33% discount, so if you’re setting up a smart home on a budget it’ll hit the spot. In our review of the GE Cync Smart Thermostat, we noted that it was a breeze to install and played nice with both Amazon’s Alexa and Google’s Assistant voice controls, as well as featuring a data-packed screen that provides all sorts of metrics on the health and efficiency of your heating and cooling. Remote sensors are sold separately, so keep that in mind if you have a large home or one with insulation issues.
Let’s end with a solid smart thermostat at a very attractive 45% discount. Honeywell has been in the home industry for a very long time, and their venture into the smart device market started with a little tussle as they sued Nest for allegedly swiping some of their patented technology. Their smart home thermostat features a busy but informative color touch-screen display, with manual temperature adjustments as well as algorithms to efficiently heat or cool. Wiring this one is a little trickier than some other models, but we know you can handle it.And if you ever wanted to know how we test smart home devices, then consider that mystery solved.
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