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I don’t get who uses Nest or other non-first party thermostats anymore: All modern furnaces/ACs/heat pumps require their own smart thermostat to work optimally

by vl 1y ago

I don’t get who uses Nest or other non-first party thermostats anymore: All modern furnaces/ACs/heat pumps require their own smart thermostat to work optimally. So if you install Bryant furnace, you end up with Bryant smart thermostat, and so on. In fact, when choosing new furnace/AC choose brand with good software in thermostat first and foremost - units themselves are pretty identical otherwise.

seanmcdirmid 1y ago
That really isn’t true. I have a split level heat pump with no thermostat, well, there is one in the remote control that sets a mini thermostat on each internal unit. Basically, we don’t have a central thermostat but that isn’t weird for Seattle. Incidentally, I would love for a better remote control that was easier to use, we might use our heat pump more than a couple of weeks a year in that case.