Has anyone seen any plans to update the controls for the thermostat. I’m sweating and can’t sleep yet again because the temperature outside warmed up again today and now the settings don’t get my bedroom cool enough. I’ll change it and then my house will be too cold to sleep comfortably in a few days. I have no idea if the schedules I set mean anything or the home away sleep is controlling it…I’ll check the user guide… oh wait, there isn’t one. Either way, not being able to set a target SINGLE temp on auto heat/cool has rendered this a costly and most uncomfortable purchase. My utilities bills are higher and I’m always either too hot or too cold. My basic dumb thermostat was way better at keeping my home comfortable without me constantly messing with it.
The thermostat should be able to HOLD in auto mode, with almost no gap at all, so for instance, living in apartments or townhomes, the temperature changes constantly. Hot to cold. Cold to hot. This is a problem with a pet at home like my dog. So, the current firmware has auto so it’ll turn on cold air at 80 degrees and hot air at 69 degrees, for example. We should be able to close this gap as much as we want, down to within one degree. I should be able to set my thermostat to 70 degrees, and if it goes one or two degrees in either direction , it will then turn on hear or cool air to bring it back to that one set temperature. This really needs to be done. Be able to set one temperature number, and then not worry about it the rest of the day. Instead of having to check in around noon when it starts getting hotter, turning the hot air to cold, then cold back to hot, and constantly checking in to see if it needs adjusted. Huuuuge pain! Should just be able to set it on 70, and tell it to turn on the hot or cold if the temp goes one or 1.5 degrees in either direction. This is my most wished for addition.
Costly it wasn’t.
Isn’t that a reason you chose Wyze, the price point?
I don’t understand the confusion.
It isn’t perfect, but it isn’t complicated.
I don’t use auto mode as I don’t think there’s a thermostat in existence that knows what I want…plus, when I have doors open, I don’t want it kicking on…even if it is warm/cold enough to kick the thermostat on.
In my area it has been warm, but will turn cold the next few days.
How will I handle it?
If it truly goes from being 80 today to a low of 30 on Fri, I may have to switch it from cool to heat.
Just not that cosmic…and still…not perfect.
I don’t disagree, but I read that the reason for the temp split is so you don’t have the AC running followed by the Heat.
If the temp split is too close, this would be the likely result.
What were you doing before this thermostat?
My family treats a thermostat like a rheostat. They think that a lower setpoint will provide a faster temperature change. I need a deception feature. So if they lower the temperature, the actual setpoint will be restricted to a 1 degree (configurable) change. But the display will allow them to move the temperature on the display as much as 6 degrees (also configurable). Then the computer will ramp the display temperature down to their pseudo setpoint over a period of maybe 10 minutes. It’s for the planet.
Or you lock out the unit and only allow setting from your phone.
Let them fiddle all they want.
i use cool or heat individually. no schedules. you know how when you lower the temp one degree from the current temp in whatever room or area the thermostat is. sometimes ill lower the temp and it stays in that dark color. usually if i lower it one degree, it turns light blue and the system turns on. but sometimes when i move it one degree, the system doesnt turn on. it stays on the temp the system shows as the temp for that thermostat. any ideas or has this happened to anyone?
The default differential temperature, which decides when the thermostat will take action if its measurement is too far off what the set temperature is, is 1 degree. So when you have it set, for instance, to 70 degrees, it would not turn on the heater until it measures 69 degrees and it would not turn on the A/C until it measures 71 degrees. It can take a long time for the room temperature to reach either side, which is why you can see a different temperature than what you have set it to for some time before it turns on either heating or cooling.
If you have the latest firmware, you can set that differential temperature to .5 degrees, meaning it would take action at 69.5 or 70.5 degrees. I use that setting and it’s a lot more comfortable since they released that update.
I like your thinking, Jim! Sort of like what BMW does with their speedometers so you think you’re going a little faster than you’re actually going. (It makes their drivers feel that they’re going faster and helps them avoid law suits when the driver can’t blame the equipment).
Anyway, the problem is that if you have Second Stage heating and/or AC, then adjusting your setpoint over a certain threshold, say 5 degrees, will actually turn on the higher setting of heat or cooling. So it actually does work to heat or cool faster, if the thermostat is set up that way, and, of course, your furnace and/or AC are capable. Unfortunately, to create a real mode and a faux mode would probably be asking too much.
Alas, probably best just to disable the controls. They’ll still be able to spin the knob, and maybe that will make them a little bit happy.
got it. awesome. thanks for your response. really appreciate it.
I’m just posting this from another since its relevant, but:
I just got mine a few days ago, and to be completely honest: I kind of hate it.
And I’d say about 80% of that hate is the ‘must be 5 degrees apart’ limitation. My last thermostat was a Honeywell T5 and it had no such issues.
Living where I am the temperature can vary dramatically throughout the day and day to day. I usually have to make minor adjustments every so often to get it comfortable, which is a massive pain with the Wyze thermostat.
What is the reasoning behind the limitation? I can’t imagine its anything but software or coding seeing as others can do it just fine.
And if it is, why does it exist? It’s my house, my energy bills, and my comfort. I don’t buy smart devices so they can tell me what to do, I buy them to make it do what I want, when I want.
I’m curious, why is the temperature changing necessary depending on what it’s doing outside? If it’s 65 inside, what does it matter what temperature it is outside?
Mainly due to differences in location. 65 where the thermostat is varies greatly from someplace like my office, where my PC and electronics are running.
I am beginning to see everyone’s frustration with these units.
I currently have my (2) units set to “Max Comfort” behavior; 65/72 for temperature preferences (not using “away”). Yet EVERY morning I have to set the main temp settings to “65 and 72” because they always reset to 70 and 75.
I do not get it. It’s my house and my bill. I want to set something to 72 degrees and forget it. If it goes a degree higher or lower, okay. If it goes to 2 degrees higher or lower, run whichever is needed to get me to 72.
While I agree you should be able to set what you want…if you could - it wouldn’t shock me if this forum was filled with complaints about how inefficient these thermostats are, going AC to heat constantly.
I do have away set for weekdays during the day.
I would like there to be the option, when in Away mode IF motion is sensed, go back to away mode after XX minutes.
I do wish I could sync the 2 thermostats programming.
These thermostats are 100% better than what I had before.
I recently stayed in an airbnb that had a nest, and I found it rather similar…though I wasn’t able to fiddle with the temp spread that people complain about.
The major reason I want to have dedicated hot and cold set temps for my thermostats is simple. I have a 6 ton unit in the basement that has baffles for each floor of my house. I have 3 thermostats, one for each floor that controls a set of baffles through a computer control unit. If I let the Wyze thermostat do it’s automatic thing, I could have heat called for in the basement (it averages about 65 degrees all year) and A/C on the top floor. The HVAC unit can’t do that. So I want a set temp for heater and a set temp for A/C. I like the Wyze thermostat because it links to my Google Home and nest system and my phone so I can control temps easily all over the house without leaving the couch.
There should have been an app/firmware update that fixed this issue? I don’t have an air conditioner, so I don’t know how well it works, but I do remember reading about it in one of the recent updates.
I live in GA, similar weather.
I don’t understand your issue.
I’ve had the thermostats for about 6 months now and think they are great.
I do NOT use the Auto mode.
There are too many times (in the evening) where I want the doors/windows open which would likely trigger either heat or AC if it was in Auto mode.
Once I switch to heat or cool, it is set and forgotten.
Maybe I’ll try Auto in the future, but already these thermostats are better than the old timey programmable thermostats I had before
I also switched Auto to off and just have temps set for the time of year, and it seems to work great. I have 3 thermostats because we have a Honeywell distribution system that only heats or cools only the areas that need it, ours is split between the 3 floors and it closes baffles in the ducting to accomplish that. What I wish is that there was a return to program button. On dumb thermostats you just tapped “run” and it would switch to whatever program it was scheduled to run at that time. Right now the kids or my wife mess with the temps on the thermostat and leave the floor and I have to try and figure out what temp that floor is supposed to be at that time or leave it until it’s next programed temp change. Unless there is already this feature and I’m missing something.
What you might be able to do is set more “states” under schedule.
You can only have a max of 6 states for some reason…
(Yes Wyze folks, we want to have more than 6 states OR the ability to return to “away” after X minutes of no motion sensed)…
Anyhow, maybe if you add more states, you can return the system back to a program more quickly after the fiddling.