Honeywell Lyric T5

[jwslam]

I called and the guy said Not-ley was holding up the money; mine was approved late Oct

[bjstare]

Mine was approved a couple weeks ago, until I saw this, I was hopeful I'd have a cheque in a week or two

[sabad66]

Got the approval email dec 6, days it will take 6-8 weeks to receive the cheque in the mail

[dj_rice]

Check your mail guys. I got 1 of 2 rebate cheques sent.

[sabad66]

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Got the approval email dec 6, days it will take 6-8 weeks to receive the cheque in the mail

got my $100 cheque today

[jaylo]

Received my $100 rebate as well.

[Kloubek]

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Its back on sale at BestBuy for $88. Sale ends Dec 20

Pricematch at Home Depot/Lowes and get it for $80 for those that missed.

Send in that rebate. Get paid $20 to pick up this product

Would they actually PAY you the difference? That would be an ill-conceived program if that's the case. I imagine logic would dictate they'd simply reimburse you 100%, no?

[dj_rice]

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Would they actually PAY you the difference? That would be an ill-conceived program if that's the case. I imagine logic would dictate they'd simply reimburse you 100%, no?

Yes. I got my rebate for $100. I returned the one I bought at Lowes originally for $99 and bought the HD One for $83xx. So I made money buying this product. The program would not know what stores would have it on sale and what wouldn't so its not a ill-conceived program. It would be ill-concieved IF, you purchase said product, wait/receive rebate, then return product for refund getting $100 free money.

What the Ontario program is doing is, you actually have to login to the Lyric app through the Government website to confirm you actually had it installed. Then they give you the rebate.

[J-hop]

Just picked mine up. Going to submit my receipt tomorrow and enjoy my free thermostat.

Not a bad unit from the research I’ve done.

[speedog]

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Just picked mine up. Going to submit my receipt tomorrow and enjoy my free thermostat.

Not a bad unit from the research I’ve done.

We found that we had to set temperatures about 1.5 degrees warmer that the old programmable thermostat the T5 replaced.

As far as the geofencing feature, I gave up on that and just set the away temperature the same as the home temperature - the geofencing just never seemed to work as it's supposed to.

[Strider]

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The program would not know what stores would have it on sale and what wouldn't so its not a ill-conceived program.

You enter a purchase price on the form and submit a receipt...
But it's easier for them to just mass print $100 cheques than to verify scans of receipts.

[adam c]

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We found that we had to set temperatures about 1.5 degrees warmer that the old programmable thermostat the T5 replaced.

As far as the geofencing feature, I gave up on that and just set the away temperature the same as the home temperature - the geofencing just never seemed to work as it's supposed to.

I don't have these issues with mine, the geofencing seemed to work itself out and I haven't had to reset it in quite some time now

[J-hop]

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We found that we had to set temperatures about 1.5 degrees warmer that the old programmable thermostat the T5 replaced.

As far as the geofencing feature, I gave up on that and just set the away temperature the same as the home temperature - the geofencing just never seemed to work as it's supposed to.

Yea you’re right it seems to be calibrated differently.

What is the deal with the box saying “to connect away from home you need an Apple TV 3 or later”?

I have 3 Apple TVs but never did it ask to connect and I tried playing with it on cellular and it works fine ?!?

[J-hop]

Geofencing seems to be working today. Not sure what it’s like on android but for Apple I have to let it use my location services always. Wonder if some people are selecting “only when app is in use”. That is usually my default but I didn’t want to have to always have the app open.

[speedog]

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Geofencing seems to be working today. Not sure what it’s like on android but for Apple I have to let it use my location services always. Wonder if some people are selecting “only when app is in use”. That is usually my default but I didn’t want to have to always have the app open.

Whre does one find that setting because I seem unable to find it on my Android app?

[J-hop]

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Whre does one find that setting because I seem unable to find it on my Android app?

Man wish I could help. I’ve been such an Apple sheep for years so I have zero experience with android. Hopefully someone has figured it out here. On Apple products is a system setting that you go into and set how you want to enable it for each app (not within the app itself)

[taemo]

finally got my cheque yesterday as well.

not using geofencing as I was finding it unreliable but dont have any issues with it on timed schedule.

[bjstare]

Quick update, this thermostat is a POS. Works fine, except when you have to do anything network/wifi related, then it's impossible to deal with. Should have spent the extra money on a nest or ecobee, I can only assume they don't suck nearly as bad.

[J-hop]

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Quick update, this thermostat is a POS. Works fine, except when you have to do anything network/wifi related, then it's impossible to deal with. Should have spent the extra money on a nest or ecobee, I can only assume they don't suck nearly as bad.

What exactly do you mean, I’ve been running it for a month, zero problems and my geofencing works fine

[adam c]

My geofence has been complete junk the last 2 weeks