Thermostat with external transformer

Is there a Blue thermostat wire at the air handler/AC? it might not be connected to anything.

Yes you are right. it’s not connected to anything. Got my hopes up when I saw it but no blue in the handler. Just this:

I tried the adaptor wyze gave and my handyman gave it his best shot and we still failed.

do you have a wider shot of the board, with more wires in view?

is this any better?

where does this blue wire go?
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the one that comes out of the thermostat wire bundle

Man, you have great eyes to spot that. :slight_smile:

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It goes to HEAT on the board.

here is the zoomed in shot.

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Your image shows it goes here.
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Which is to say, it’s unconnected, so strip back the insulation a bit and connect it to this C terminal with the white wire that goes to the common side of your A/C compressor contactor:
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Bro you are a genius ! I finally got time to try this out and it worked on the upstairs thermostat. Will try the one downstairs tomorrow. Wyze support said the units were faulty :laughing:

Thank you again so much !

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Greetings all!

When using an external power supply does this red go to RH or RC? I see conflicting replies. The PSU i got says one end of the psu wiring shoulg go to RC and other C. Any experts out there? thanks in advance.

After you wired this up how did u set it up via the app, meaning… Did you tell the app that u have C and RC wires even those are coming from the adapter? I my case i have 4 wires R, G, Y and W and my adapter says to add the legs to RC and C so again when i go through the setup steps am i saying i have Rh, G, Y, W, RC and C? Thanks again!

If I remember correctly (it was a while ago) once I added the transformer I simply said I cad the C (constant power) wire. It may have taken 2 or 3 runs through the setup before it took.

Hilleary, your explanation and directions were PERFECT.