Hi, DIYers.
This is Frank at Alarm Grid.
We're here at ISC West 2019 in the Alarm.com room
off their main booth, looking at some new products
in the pipeline for Alarm.com, in particular, the T3000.
This will be their new smart thermostat, an upgrade
to their existing T2000.
And we're going to have Gustav give us
a rundown of some of the new features,
and look at the integration within the app as well.
Yeah.
So basically, it builds up the same sorts
of remote functionality that you have
in the original smart thermostat,
so it supports the same temperature sensors.
You can do geolocation-based control of your thermostat.
All those sort of features you know and love
from the first generation one, but we've
taken a bunch of feedback from our dealers and installers
from the first generation thermostat
to just improve on, basically, every facet of this one.
And so, I mean, it starts in the back.
We've gotten feedback from a whole bunch of dealers
that they'd like to have a bit more room
to do the wiring for these thermostats.
So there's more space here.
There's also improved wiring terminals
that are super easy to use and reuse,
even if you have to pull the wire out, put it back in.
Updated mounting holes over here that actually
match what most commercially available thermostats have,
so you get a little bit of a quicker install there.
And again, same sort of a level over here that you can use.
And then on top of that one too.
When you have clicked in the wires
and you attach the smart thermostat
to the top the first time, it will detect exactly what
wires are in there.
So you can, number one, really quickly set up the thermostat.
And you know, you make sure that it's
an error-free installation.
Yep.
So it can auto-sense what type of heating/cooling system
you might have.
Yeah, exactly.
And it'll show you exactly what it
is so you can confirm it, make sure it's all the wires
that you plugged in there.
Cool.
OK.
And then also, the new display with both the
set point and the current temp, which is kind of cool.
Yeah, exactly.
One of the bits of feedback we heard
too was, while people like the icons, some people
just like to actually see the words for cool,
heat, exactly what mode it's in.
Then also being able to see the temperature
at the exact same time as that set
point that they're using to set the target temperature
for their thermostat.
On top of that one too, there's just a little bit more
in the way of menus on this.
So number one-- not everybody, but some people
care a whole bunch about being able to set their fan
mode on their thermostat.
Oh, yeah.
So all of a sudden, that's available here.
You can set that.
And then, on top of that too, especially
if you've got an HVAC guy who's coming in
beforehand and setting up the thermostat,
we've got a whole series of menus
that they can go through and do the sorts of configuration
that they're used to.
So it becomes a simple install for them.
Even if you're not there, you can just show up later on
and add in the thermostat [INAUDIBLE]..
They can do the rough kind of wiring or back-end HVAC
work, set up the thermostat locally,
and then you can kind of take it from there
as a customer to kind of enroll it into your Alarm.com app.
Yep.
Yeah.
So, I don't think there's much difference on control
within the app, right?
Exactly.
So once you're in the app, it's exactly the same interface
that you're used to, and it supports the same cool,
heat, auto modes.
You know, you can do humidity-based control.
Again, you can select the remote temperature sensors
to control the devices.
It's all the same stuff you're used to over here.
Cool.
Temperature sensors so if, for example,
your thermostat's someplace else.
One that I use all the time is, my thermostat's downstairs.
My bedroom, I want it to be a comfortable temperature
up there.
When it's midwinter or sort of the height of summer,
the temperature downstairs is way
different from the one upstairs.
Right.
So it's great to be able to say like, OK, I
want it to be 68 degrees, and I'll sleep well no matter what.
So the wireless sensors are the little S2000s?
Yeah, exactly.
They're not going to have like an S3000 or anything,
it's same sensors?
No.
For now, yeah.
We're going to use the exact same sensors with the setup.
And you can use an average of these temperatures as well?
Yeah, exactly.
You can either choose a different one,
or you can select multiple ones and use an average
between the set of them.
Very cool.
All right.
Well, we're excited for the release on this.
When are you looking at an ETA approximately?
So we think it's going to be end of May--
End of May?
--should be the launch of this one.
So coming up real soon for you guys.
We had a real successful round of beta testing
with a number of dealers.
Excellent.
And so, great feedback from that one, and we're
excited to get it out into the world.
All right.
Well, thank you, Gustav, for your time.
Yeah.
Appreciate it.
No, thanks so much.
We're excited for the T3000 here.
See you later, guys.