Hey yall
Had to get an all new furnace and heat pump installed. I opted for the Honewell thermostat. I don’t want this thing on my wifi. I don’t need to have it connected right?
If you have the T6, it has HomeKit. But I think it works fine if you don’t connect it to the app at all.
I don’t have a heat pump but I do have a Honeywell wifi thermostat. It requires wifi to get the outdoor temperature unless it has terminals to support and install an external temperature sensor (mine did not have the terminals). Can be integrated with home assistant but through the Honeywell cloud.
That must be it. I’ll need an external temp sensor then, as per the manual for this model. Nbd. Still annoying how 40 years ago they had it figured out better than now! Tech goes backwards, ha
Capitalist innovation!
I have no idea. What model is it? Why don’t you just hook it up and find out?
I can get the model later,
The problem is I can’t really test it. I don’t know if its going to run the heat pump and furnace at the right temps. The techs tried to tell me it uses WiFi for outdoor temp or the heat pump won’t work. That is absolutely stupid if so. I have tons of wires to my t stat too so it’s not like there isn’t enough.
The techs tried to tell me it uses WiFi for outdoor temp or the heat pump won’t work. That is absolutely stupid if so.
Mmmm not necessarily. Some heat pumps can’t be run below a certain temp. If it doesn’t see the temp it will default to off. Without the model number of the thermostat and the HVAC system it’s hard to say if yours requires it or not.
Right, I think heat pumps stop around 40f usually. But how did my system from 1987 do this by itself and now in 2026 it was to rely on WiFi? I dont buy it.
Model of full system: Multi 37MUHA Heat Pump 3 Ton + Carrier Performance 59TP7A Furnace 80,000 BTU
T stat is an elitepro s1200
Also thank you for your help :) I’m just annoyed with all this. I just want a system that works. I don’t use “smart” products in my home.
Holy shit, you have a nearly 40 year old HVAC system with a heat pump!? I don’t know if I can help you with that, that’s older than me and I’m not familiar with that technology. But yeah, I agree if the old one didn’t need it, the new one certainly shouldn’t either.
I use a “smart” thermostat but all the smarts are in the thermostat itself. I bought a specific Honeywell one because it seemed to be the only one in existence that is able to switch hot/cold automatically without requiring it to be connected to remote servers just to function.
Yeah the heat pump was a 1987 trane and the furnace a 1990 trane. Heat pump died so decided to replace it all.
Yeah, I’m hoping this Honeywell works without internet, if I am forced to use it I guess I will have to limit it’s connection and block everything it uses except the weather.
It just drives me nuts the techs don’t know anything about how it actually works, and they just want you to hook it to your internet…I at least have it on an isolated vlan now
Wait so you’re replacing the 1987 one with a new one?
Yes, the motor just burned up in it last week.
So the entire HVAC system was replaced, furnace and heat pump.
Well, look, the thing has, somewhere, an io with a ‘stop’ and ‘go’ signal for each of its functions, right?
How hard would it be to copy those amd do a home made foss version off aliexpress? Maybe even put in multiple sensors and do some fanxy math?
