This new Honeywell Home smart thermostat can answer your Ring doorbell

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

Resideo’s newest thermostat looks similar a compelling alternate to Nest oregon Ecobee if you’re looking for a premium astute thermostat. The Honeywell Home X8S is compatible with Matter, supports country sensors, and features a sleek 5-inch touchscreen that works arsenic an intercom for Ring and First Alert video doorbells.

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

At $220 ($250 with a country sensor), it’s cheaper than the flagship $280 Nest Learning Thermostat (4th gen) but the aforesaid terms arsenic the $250 Ecobee Premium Thermostat, some of which travel with a country sensor. Ecobee’s thermostats besides act arsenic video doorbell intercoms, but lone with Ecobee’s doorbell camera. Nest thermostats don’t enactment with immoderate video doorbells. (Bear successful mind, this diagnostic is chiefly utile if your thermostat is successful a convenient presumption 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 partition plate, which should marque for an casual upgrade. It supports up to 4 vigor and 2 chill stages for vigor pumps and up to 3 vigor and 4 chill stages for accepted systems. It does necessitate a C-wire.

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

An onboard radar sensor feeds beingness information to the system’s auto-away feature, which adjusts its settings to prevention vigor erstwhile you’re away. You tin besides usage the caller X8S wireless country 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 the First Alert app — due to the fact that Resideo (which acquired the beingness information company First Alert successful 2022) is moving each its consumer products there. The Honeywell Home and Resideo apps inactive enactment for older products, but everything volition yet migrate to First Alert.

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

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