The Lyric Thermostat: Home Comfort and Energy Savings in a Smart Thermostat

Your smartphone is your lifeline. It links to your fitness tracker and sends reminders to get up and walk or guzzle more H20. It replaced baby monitors and shows you a picture of your sleeping dumpling, as well as their heart rate and oxygen levels. It unites you with the outside world through Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram, as well as calling and texting. It’s where everyone gets their news, where they keep their boarding passes for their flights, and how they pay for their much needed Starbucks. 

And now it controls your home. 

The Honeywell Lyric Round Wi-Fi Thermostat adapts to your life to control your heating and cooling system so that you don’t have to. But you can, of course, using – you know it – your smartphone. 

Your smartphone can control your Lyric Thermostat no matter where you are, and the Lyric also integrates with Apple Watch, Apple HomeKit, and Samsung SmartThings. 

After a bit of time, the Lyric will learn your household’s behaviors – when you turn the air up, when you turn it down, when you are there, and when you leave. It has the ability to activate geofencing so your Lyric can really see where you are and, once it learns how long it takes your heater to warm the home or your air conditioning system to cool it, it will determine when you are that length of time away from the house and automatically modify your heating and cooling systems so that it is the perfect temperature when you arrive. 

It also notifies you when the air filter needs to be swapped out! 

All of these features don’t just save you time and stress, they save you dollars. Since the Lyric Thermostat learns all your HVAC system’s behaviors, it adjusts your heating and cooling systems to save on energy bills. When it knows that during the heating season you’re going to be gone from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m., the Lyric will automatically adjust your furnace temperature lower and then, when it sees you’re about an hour away from home, it starts turning the temperature back up to prepare for your arrival. 

Does it only take your furnace 35 minutes to get your home to the ideal temperature? Fear not! The Lyric learns that, as well, and will hold off until 5:25 p.m. to initiate turning the furnace back on but it delivers the same result – home comfort with energy savings. 

Curious to discover how much savings? Use the energy calculator from Honeywell to find out! 

Want to easily control your thermostat from your smartphone AND save money on energy bills? Call McKinley Heating Service Experts today and determine if your heating and air conditioning system is compatible with the Lyric Thermostat.