I agree with you about Google devices, and avoid them. As for a smart thermostat, we have a Honeywell Home thermostat that was installed with a new heat pump last year. The thermostat is very useful because it works with the Total Connect Comfort app on my iPad and iPhone.
— I can check the temp and change it from anywhere in the house (or anywhere else).
— I can easily make adjustments to the schedule, which is difficult and confusing using the touch pad of the thermostat on the wall.
— Honeywell emails me a summary of total heating and cooling hours each month.
I see very little risk with the thermostat. Basically, I am comfortable with Honeywell and the app developer (Resideo) privacy policies. Their core business is home and commercial devices, not like Google. We also have a smart oven, Café made by GE. The app that works with it is similarly useful.
Before we got the heat pump, I bought an Ecobee Smart Thermostat to replace the old thermostat for the gas furnace. It turned out that model I got was incompatible with our gas furnace — we had only a three-wire connection, and it needed five. Fortunately, it was provided at very low cost from our local energy company. It was also incompatible with the new heat pump/furnace combination, hence the Honeywell thermostat (the more expensive Ecobee model would have worked). I gave the Ecobee to a neighbor who could use it.
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