Honeywell Home RENEWRTH9585WF Wi-Fi Smart Thermostat (Renewed)

The instructions, including the ones for if you don’t have a C wire, were well done. The product doesn’t say made in China and the syntax looks like a native English speaker.

The instructions, including the ones for if you don’t have a C wire, we’re well done. The product doesn’t say made in China and the syntax looks like a native English speaker.

It had all the pieces all sealed as you might normally expect so my suspicion is someone got this and realized they needed a C wire and didn’t have one and just sent it back.

It probably took me 15 minutes to put in one mostly because I had to figure out how to stuff some excess wire back into the wall on a stiff, bundle and retrieve all of the correct tools I needed. That said, and as again above, the instructions were good, and everything went exactly as detailed in them.

On my pictures I show the completed installed unit and the original base plate I had with the old thermostat. The instructions say, don’t depend on the wire colors, but mine were all perfect, except for the common, which was blue. The C wire is the common power wire. The new thermostat has push to insert and release instead of screws like Modern receptacles do and we’re easy for me to use .

The touchscreen certainly is not as sensitive as my iPhone, however, I found it worked very easily, better than the new Walmart, self check out, LCD screens, and my hands were a little cold is probably the only problem.

I did download the app And the thermostat automatically gives you the MAC code and another required one when you do your initial boot up. Wi-Fi connected the first time with absolutely no issues but I was within 15 feet of my router so I know I had very good signal strength. The application has an option to walk you through set up for programming which is good because the manual schedule programming is not all that intuitive the way it’s laid out. The walk-through option works extremely well. I did the schedule programming on the application, not on the unit directly.

I can’t agree with any of the negative comments about the device, the clips, the screen , or any missing parts because this one was perfect. However, I realize it’s just the one that I received.

I did order two at the same time from Amazon and for some reason they decided to ship them as two separate orders, maybe they are coming from different warehouses, though I doubt it. Of course, USPS, using part-time people this time of year, has been doing a C minus job on most of my orders and a flat F on one, although sometimes they get to B plus. UPS has been surprisingly good and as usual FedEx the best by far. I haven’t gotten my second device in so we’ll see if that goes as well as the first and I’ll update this if not.

Recommend a do purchase on this refurbished unit.

When I first moved into my home last month I had an old analog Intertherm thermostat.

I tried a digital (non smart) honeywell thermostat because I didn’t have a C wire. After finding a smoke detector was using a power source above the thermostat I decided to upgrade immediately to this Honeywell smart thermostat and used a C wire adapter.

The thermostat arrived looking like new and functioning great. Easy to setup and manage. Works great with Google home.

This came with a broken wire clip, old wire tips stuck in two clips, and missing labels. This was a broken customer return dropped straight into the mail and shipped to me without even checking if it needed to be renewed.

Edit: 7/10/2023. The 2nd unit didn’t have the protective film that 1st one did, but it was in perfect condition with all of the labels and no broken parts. The install was very easy, but it turned on and told me that the inside temp was 61°, then that sank down to 52° within a few minutes. The actual temp was 75° and climbing. It showed 100% humidity. I factory reset it and completed the simple setup and registration process, but there was no change. Sending this one back. The touchscreen seems a little insensitive all over, otherwise this seems to be a great thermostat. Adjusting rating to reflect the product and not the horrible users that are sending broken items as renewed.

Edit: The 3rd thermostat, also “renewed” had a whole piece of plastic, including one plastic clip, broken off, so sending this one back too. The picture is attached for detail and to clarify the misinformation about the clips breaking because they’re delicate. Significant pressure is needed to force the small round bump on the underside of the clip far enough into the metal pincers to force them open wider than the wire that would be pinched in-between them. The pincers will never be wider than the clip, so almost all of the pressure will be transferred directly to the metal, not to the plastic clip hinge. That is assuming that the instructions are followed and the pressure is applied to the end of the clip and not somewhere in the middle. It also makes it obvious that the clips are necessary, and broken clips are not “renewed”.

Edit: 7/23/2023. The 4th renewed thermostat is physically unbroken and seems to be working perfectly. The touchscreen functionality isn’t as perfect as a smartphone’s, but otherwise, this is everything it promises to be. Alexa connection required little more than adding the tstat in the Total Connect Comfort app and enabling that skill in the Alexa app.