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If you're looking to add a smart thermostat
to your smart home,
and want to keep track of the temperature
in multiple rooms,
then the Honeywell Home T9 is one to watch.
Through the use of Smart Room Sensors,
the T9 Smart Thermostat provides whole home coverage
that keeps the temperature comfortable
no matter where you are in your home.
In this video, I give you a look at the Honeywell Home T9
to help you determine if this is the thermostat for you.
What is going on, Tech Squad?
Andru Edwards here, editor-in-chief for GearLive.com.
As I mentioned, we are talking about this guy right here.
This is the Honeywell Home T9 Smart Thermostat.
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Now as I said in the open,
the Honeywell Home T9 Smart Thermostat is all about
giving you temperature control across your entire home.
Not only do you get the Smart Thermostat
that you see here on the front of the box,
this version also comes with a Smart Room Sensor,
which we're gonna get into a little later.
By the way, as you watch,
if you're interested in the Honeywell Home T9
and want to pick one up for yourself,
there'll be a link down in the description below.
So today I'm gonna tell you about my three favorite features
of the Honeywell Home T9.
A big shout out to Honeywell Home for sending over the T9
and for sponsoring this video.
All right, let's jump into the first
of my top three features of the T9 Smart Thermostat,
that being the unique design.
The T9's portrait orientation rectangular shape
kind of resembles the Honeywell Home Lyric T5 thermostat
that I showed you in our previous video,
but in my personal opinion,
the T9 looks even better with a white bezel
surrounding a bright white 3.5-inch touchscreen.
You've got big characters on the display
so you could read it from across the room,
which is one of my favorite features.
Colored text in the center of the display
represents the indoor temperature,
and if it's blue, that means it's cooling,
and if it's orange, that means it's heating.
And then you've got gray text and icons
that show the temperature outside your home as well.
Tap on the screen and you'll be presented
with even more detailed information
about the heating and cooling temperature targets
that you've set,
along with an indoor humidity reading.
Now, the nice thing about the T9 itself, the actual unit,
is you can access every setting,
every option, and every feature
directly from the thermostat itself.
Usually with a lot of smart thermostats,
you can access some features and some options
and some settings from the thermostat,
but if you really want to get in and optimize things,
you have to use the accompanying smartphone app.
Honeywell Home does provide an app that you can use,
but you don't have to use it
if you're standing right in front of your thermostat.
All right, number two on the list
of the top three best features
of the Honeywell Home T9 Smart Thermostat
is in the name itself.
The smart home integration.
After installation,
the T9 guides you through the setup process,
and it's pretty quick and simple.
You'll program the Honeywell Home T9
in a conventional manner,
establishing a weekly schedule
with as many temperature changes as you'd like.
So it's super easy, for example,
to establish a temperature for 10 p.m. when you go to sleep
and then seven a.m. when you wake up,
but then to also have it do something
at, say, 8:30 a.m. when you leave the house,
and then six p.m. when you get back.
You can program the same schedule for multiple days
or create a custom schedule for every day of the week.
Of course, being a smart thermostat,
the T9 also supports geofencing.
Now if you're not aware,
geofencing means that it'll track your smartphone
to see whether you're home or not.
If you leave the home,
you can have it take a specific action
like maybe turning off the heating or cooling
and then turning it back on
once you get back within your geofence location.
Now let's talk about smart home digital assistants.
This is where I'd expect to see
an abundance of different digital assistant integrations,
and the Honeywell Home T9 does not disappoint.
You can use it with Amazon's Alexa, the Google Assistant,
Microsoft Cortana, If This Then That, Samsung SmartThings,
and Apple HomeKit integration is coming as well.
These allow you even more ways
to control the temperature in your home
and get information as well using just your voice.
Once connected to the smart platform of your choosing,
you can check the temperature
of any room that has a sensor in it,
and you can give voice commands to your digital assistant
to adjust the temperature of any given room.
Oh, and if you're wondering what I mean by sensors,
that's actually the next item on the list.
Number three on the list
of the top three features of the Honeywell Home T9
are the remote room sensors.
In fact, this is what I found
to be the most important feature
of the Honeywell Home T9 Smart Thermostat
and the one that sets it apart
from all the smart thermostat competition out there.
These remote sensors aren't a new idea,
but the Honeywell Home sensors work
up to 200 feet away from the thermostat,
which for me meant they work perfectly fine
no matter where they're placed in the home.
Now these serve a few different purposes.
The sensors can detect the temperature
and the humidity level in a room,
but they also have motion sensors built in,
which allows them to tell if someone is in the room or not.
This will then allow the Honeywell Home T9
to optimize the temperature in your home
for the rooms where people are actually hanging out.
So for example,
if in the evening, everyone's in the living room
and you have the temperature set to, say 70 degrees,
it'll make sure that room stays
at that comfortable 70 degree temperature.
If you then leave the living room
and then, say, go into your bedroom,
it'll make sure to then optimize for the bedroom.
But even cooler, let's say you have a baby's room,
and you want to make sure
the baby's room stays at 68 degrees
regardless of if there are people
in other rooms of the house.
You could do that as well
simply by selecting the baby's room
as the room that should take priority.
The T9 Smart Thermostat can support
up to 20 different sensors,
which would be enough to cover
just about any home that I can think of.
They're powered by two batteries,
which could last about one full year.
The Honeywell Home T9 with Smart Room Sensor
is available from 199.99.
If you're interested,
I will leave a link down in the description below.
There you have it, guys.
That was our look at the Honeywell Home T9 Smart Thermostat.
If you're looking for other smart home devices,
be sure to check the video I've put out recently,
taking a look at the Samsung Family Hub
smart refrigerator as well.
I'll leave a link up here
as well as down in the description below
for you to check that one out.
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I'm Andru Edwards, and I will catch you in the next video.
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