Sub $60 smart heating controls, powered by Honeywell
Amazon used its September 2021 launch event to take the covers off of its first foray into smart heating with the launch of the Amazon Smart Thermostat.
Costing just $59.99, it’s less than half the price of Google’s cheapest smart thermostat – the 2020 Nest Thermostat – so it’s bound to sell like hot cakes.
The good news is that Amazon hasn’t just baked up a new thermostat out of thin air (or snaffled a start up and slapped its branding on it) – the Bezos Behemoth has worked with the experts at Resideo, who make Honeywell Home thermostats, to create the new budget HVAC controller.
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This being an Amazon device, it is all powered by Alexa – although the digital assistant isn’t baked in; you’ll need an Alexa smart speaker to listen to your heating commands.
Or, using the Alexa app you can simply program the Amazon Smart Thermostat to react to certain situations using Alexa Routines (such as turning the heating off when you turn the downstairs lights off) and you can also make use of the new Alexa Hunches feature to automate the heating and cooling of your home.
You can also have the Smart Thermostat turn the heating off when you’re home or away and set schedules in the Alexa app, so that it knows what it needs to do at all times.
Amazon says it will work with most existing 24V HVAC system and it will cost $59.99 when it goes on sale later this year.
