This New Honeywell Home Smart Thermostat Can Answer Your Ring Doorbell

The X8S is simply a premium thermostat that supports Matter and useful arsenic a video doorbell intercom.

Resideo’s newest thermostat looks for illustration a compelling replacement to Nest aliases Ecobee if you’re looking for a premium smart thermostat. The Honeywell Home X8S is compatible pinch Matter, supports room sensors, and features a sleek 5-inch touchscreen that useful arsenic an intercom for Ring and First Alert video doorbells.

The $219.99 thermostat launches this week, and acknowledgment to Matter compatibility useful pinch Amazon Alexa, Google Home, Apple Home, and different smart location systems. It besides includes indoor aerial value monitoring, positive humidity and ventilation control.

At $220 ($250 pinch a room sensor), it’s cheaper than nan flagship $280 Nest Learning Thermostat (4th gen) but nan aforesaid value arsenic nan $250 Ecobee Premium Thermostat, some of which travel pinch a room sensor. Ecobee’s thermostats besides act arsenic video doorbell intercoms, but only pinch Ecobee’s doorbell camera. Nest thermostats don’t activity pinch immoderate video doorbells. (Bear successful mind, this characteristic is chiefly useful if your thermostat is successful a convenient position for you to cheque arsenic you caput to your beforehand door.)

The EnergyStar-certified X8S supports dual-band Wi-Fi, comes successful achromatic and white, and uses Honeywell Home’s cosmopolitan wall plate, which should make for an easy upgrade. It supports up to 4 power and 2 cool stages for power pumps and up to 3 power and 4 cool stages for accepted systems. It does require a C-wire.

The 5-inch show shows indoor humidity, outdoor temperature, time, nan existent strategy settings, and thermostat controls. Customizable idle screens connection a five-day upwind forecast, a integer clock, aliases IAQ info, and Residio says you tin take creation themes and colour combos to lucifer your location décor.

An onboard radar sensor feeds beingness information to nan system’s auto-away feature, which adjusts its settings to prevention power erstwhile you’re away. You tin besides usage nan caller X8S wireless room sensors to see temperature, humidity, and occupancy information from different rooms. The X8S is backward-compatible with newer T9 sensors.

Somewhat confusingly, distant power is done nan First Alert app — because Resideo (which acquired nan life information company First Alert successful 2022) is moving each its consumer products there. The Honeywell Home and Resideo apps still activity for older products, but everything will yet migrate to First Alert.

The X8S is Resideo’s first caller premium user thermostat since nan T9/T10 statement launched successful 2019. Earlier this year, nan institution introduced its first Matter-compatible model, nan lower-priced X2. The X8S’s main advantages are its support for much precocious systems and room sensors, its touchscreen interface and display, and video doorbell integration.

You tin bargain nan X8S now arsenic a self-install exemplary from HoneywellHome.com aliases Amazon, aliases if you want pro-installation, that’ll beryllium the ElitePRO S1200 model.