Hey guys, Josh mcgriffin II are serving the middle Peninsula and the Northern Neck of Virginia and one to a video on a Honeywell 8000 Wi-Fi thermostat. I wanted to kind of touch on a few features. I've kind of got one here that I just set up, and this is a by far my favorite thermostat out there and there's a couple of reasons for that. You might say well, there's thermostats that are way fancier, there's thermostats that are, you know, can do way more things than than the Honeywell 8000 and that's true, but for the price point and the functionality of a Honeywell 8000.

In my opinion, my experience at this point. It's the best thermostat that I've laid hands on. So that's why I'm gon na actually do a several reviews on some thermostats and I wanted to start with the Honeywell thousand because of that. So I'm just gon na kind of like say, go through a few features here.

Okay, so here we are, and I just wanted to start out if you ever have to make any changes to the programming. You know a lot of contractors, don't want the homeowner messing with that stuff, but I think the more you know as a homeowner, you're humming or watching this, the you know the more you understand about it, the less that if something is odd or different, or you Know so on the more educated you are on the thermostat itself, the better off you're gon na be as far as you know, making calls that you don't need to make, and things like that so anyway. So if you've got to make any changes to this thermostat and you got to actually go into the programming of the thermostat, it's gon na ask you for a four-digit code and that code is right there. So this one, if you can see, is one six zero.

Six - and you know yours might be different if you have a Honeywell 8000, so get this put back one here, and it's just two hinges right here you get a put back on there and, as you see it kind of rocks on those hinges and it clicks Right in so that's that's honestly. Another thing I love about the 8000. You know after working with different thermostats over the years and you you know you fighting it to get a pro back on the base. That's pretty nice just that alone.

So, anyway, we're going to go through a couple of things here: it's actually going through an update right now, it's it's crimp connected to the Wi-Fi, but we're gon na get in here anyway. So if you got a menu and you come down to installer options - that's where you can go into the programming of the thermostat and I'm gon na go through some of the different features again, but that's again this that's one of the things I love about this Thermostat because it's so easy to get in there and it's so easy to make changes, I don't need a booklet to think you know decipher what code means. What or what you know certain certain things mean and you won't either after I go through some of these things, so we're gon na click on install our options and that's where it's going to ask you for that code and once you're in there. It actually has several different options: we're just gon na go right into the setup, and so again it's gon na just start asking you questions, that's one of the things that I love about it you know.

There's I don't need a booklet. It's just gon na ask you some questions and you just answer those questions, and so, as long as you know what it's asking you can answer it and so application we're residential we're in a house, you can name the thermostat it actually will. You know give you several different options: you can kind of go through those, but I have two-story home upper level is one you can make a program or non-programmable. I have customers that you know love programmable thermostats.

They run a schedule every day and I have other customers that you know it's just more junk on their screen. They're, never going to run a schedule. You know they're for whatever reason they're. You know either not at the house as much or they're there.

All the time or whatever the reason is they don't want to run a schedule, and it's just one more thing that they have to pull this with the holds and all that and I'll get into that later. So that's what that saying: we're leave this one programmable course Fahrenheit. Where I'm in the United States we use Fahrenheit, you can change it to Celsius. If you need to use an outdoor temperature, this one, I'm just gon na like say, leave it alone, but if you were to use remote sensors and things like that, you know sometimes you'll get other options.

Heating system you'll select what kind of heating system I have a heat pump system and air to air heat pump versus, say a geothermal believe that reversing valve depend on what brand system you have. The reversing valve could be one thing or another, just to name a few brands out there. If you have a Rheem, a rude, a Bosch or in a mayor, star, you're gon na actually want this to be a B. Hopefully you can see this.

Let me see if I get a little closer here, so y'all can see this too, so you want it to be a B. Instead of an O there and most other brands train America standard carrier, Bryant Goodman, all those different brands. That would be a no. So we're gon na leave this on an O.

This is a Goodman system, presser stages, if you're not sure on that you're gon na want to find out, and so most residential systems, 16 seer or below it's gon na be a single stage compressor, as you start to get in higher sears and things like that. You'll see more stages, so we'll leave that one back up heat stages. If you have a you know, backup heat strips or things like that, or if you have a dual fuel system, you would change that to a one. I have nothing on this.

Whoever installed this there's, no backup heat strips and we've never needed them. The heat from downstairs rises, and you know the heat turns on when it needs to, but even if it gets super cold outside you know, it's never needed heat strips so kind of interesting. So, zero on that for us system changeover, I did a whole separate video you're welcome to check out about automatic change your over or manual changeover. What that is, is you can actually set a temperature range on your thermostat and the reason you would want that is on mild days, where you know it gets cold at night.

Warm during the day might be running heat at night cool. You know AC during the day. You would turn that on you have a temperature range, so if it gets above a certain temperature below a certain temperature, it would bring it back into that range. So we have that on here and you can actually change this says Auto changeover deadband, that is that range.

So this is three degrees and we're gon na leave that on three, but you can change that if you want a bigger or smaller range on that temperature me personally, I wouldn't go any lower than three because you would have a system - that's probably gon na, be Turning on off and off a lot, it's gon na be maybe even fighting itself at times. I think three is good, because you know if you, if you're comfortable, let's say 72 degrees. You know you can set that range to correlate with that, where it's gon na keep you in that same range, we're not gon na mess with that in this video goes through some cycles. Typically, I wouldn't mess with that.

As long as I've been doing this, I don't mess with the cycles and what that is, it's gon na go through. You know how many cycles per hour the system's gon na run, and that will change depending on what kind of what kind of system you have bait. You know whether it's a heat pump or a furnace or so on, electric furnace versus a gas furnace. You know different things like that: they'll have different cycles, so we're not gon na mess with that press our off time.

Five minutes, that's pretty industry standard. What that is is if you make a change to the thermostat. It's gon na make that system wait. It's gon na actually have a delay timer and it's gon na wait for five minutes before it actually brings that system back one again.

It's just to protect the compressor you're, not gon na have any one-off spikes and energy. You know where your system, you know your compressor, could actually you know, heat up and short and all that so five minute delay extend a fan run time. I did a whole video alone on the dirty sock syndrome. The smells you might get why you might turn that on during the cool during AC and then in heat, which would be our next one.

You might have a system that has a heat, exchanger say like a furnace, and you know you are wasting energy there. If you don't have your Sena fan Ron Tom one, you can turn that on one you got a hot heat, exchanger system reaches temperature turns off continues to run a little bit. It cools that heat exchanger set through classes where different people have talked about that it loan, but the cool thing about that is that's energy. You know you! You heated up that heat exchanger your gas about here, your your gas burners heated up that furnace.

That heat exchanger and now we're gon na get as much of that energy off of there as you can. This is a scheduled periods. Two periods per day been on. You know what your lifestyle is.

You might have that set on for my set on to just depends, and what that means is, you know like if you, if it was set on for you might have it be one temperature when you wake up another temperature, when you leave your home, and you Know third temperature, when you return and then a fourth temperature when you go to bed, I only have two on this particular one. So we don't have anybody that sleeps up here and I actually don't run a schedule much anyway. I use the Wi-Fi I want so anyway adaptive recovery. Yes, I wouldn't mess with that too much unless you're, you know really a stickler about energy savings and so on.

What that is, is this: the system will actually adjust based on how long it takes to reach a certain temperature. If you're running a schedule, it will learn. Let's say you have a set okay at eight o'clock. I want it to be 72 degrees and it will learn.

Okay. It takes me 20 minutes to reach. You know that temperature, so I'm gon na come on at actually 7:40 and it will come one and at by the time it reaches that eight o'clock scheduled set. Point you'll be at the temperature you wanted to be.

If you turn it off, it will not turn on until that actual scheduled minimum set point cool set point I usually go 60 or 65 on that. I think the factory one that you get the thermostat. It's much lower than that, maybe 50. I think I'm even lower than that, but at least with some thermostats, but I am, I always do 60 or 65, especially if you have kids, you know they mess with.

You know kids mess with things they mess with the thermostat and they set the temperature way too low. And now you got ta systems, that's been running constantly and that creates a whole another issue and so on. So just keep that in mind. Let's see, of course, maximum heat setpoint same reason.

I usually set that at 80. I think it comes out of the box at 90 and I'll set that at 80 I'd say most homes. I've had it's rare, but I have had a few customers that Pike. It's super super warm in there, but I'd say most folks.

Eighty is plenty it's 80 degrees in your house. You're cooking, so keep a block out. I think in my entire career, we've only turned that on once or twice we had a library where some folks kept messing with it, and so they locked the keypad out. And then I had some college dorms, Believe It or Not years ago, where we put a thermostat and locked out the keypad, because we know that a school did not want the kids to keep messing with the temperature on the thermostat.

Why? Our sensor s terminals? If you, you can install a you know, a wired sensor for a couple of different things. If you have a dual fuel system, you know you would have that in there to measure that outside temperature to you know, decide whether or not it's going to run furnace or heat pump, but you can also wire a sensor on there for an indoor temperature sensor. What's cool about that is, if you have those applications where you know you would almost you what you know you would almost want to relocate the thermostat somewhere else depending on you know, what's going on, maybe it's sitting in the Sun or maybe it's right by the Front door and it just keeps affecting the temperature of the room: I've had customers complain about the location and instead of having to relocate the thermostat or doing all these crazy things, you can install a sensor. I've even seen remote sensors, where you know, and then you wire it in here but um - you just wire it on there so anyway.

The point is in this particular scenario: we have nothing wired to the s terminals, and so we really, they don't know, filter type media. That's pretty self-explanatory. If you have an electronic air cleaner or you know, says no filter, I'm not sure. If you don't have any filter, you should get one, but most times we're selecting media number of air filters.

You can decide. You know your system. What the answer to that is, and then it's gon na go through some reminders depending on whether or not you have a dehumidifier, a humidifier filter, UV light and so on. You can actually set some reminders up.

There's even a custom reminder tab. You can go through and actually set to where the thermostat will tell you after so many run time days. You know: hey it's Tom time, to replace your filter, it's time to replace your humidifier pad it's time to replace your UV light bowl yeah things like that. So that's actually pretty cool back lighting, most folks like it on demand.

What that means is this green light? Let's glow, if you will, let me show you what that actually will look like, so you can see how bright it actually is. So it's it's not too bright, but you can see you know you can actually see me kinda sorta, and so it puts off a little bit of a light. Some folks don't like that and should go off here any second, but you know you got your thermostat illuminating, an entire room or the hallway or whatever, and a lot of folks don't like that. So they'll leave this one.

One demand it may not go off of here because we're record program and great decision, but you know, within 10 15 20 seconds it'll usually go off and you can change that to continuous see. If you can see it, there see it says continuous and what that would be is it would just you know, keep that green glow on all the time. So, let's get our lights back on here, as we finish up all right, we're almost at the end, if you're still watching this continuous 12 hour format, I have had a few customers and you know we're in a we're near the coast in Virginia. So we do have some customers that serve in the military and, if you're, watching this and you serve.

Thank you. We really appreciate it. You can change that to 24-hour format, we'll leave our zone 12 indoor temperature offset I've had those customers, and you might be one of those folks that you know it drives them nuts. It drives you, nuts, if you have a separate thermometer in that room and it's different right.

You know you, you got a thermometer in there. The thermometer says it's 72, but your thermostat thinks it's 74 and you know it's driving you crazy. Well, you can actually go in here to this offset and tell the thermostat. You are two degrees off from my thermometer and and correct that, and I've had customers that you know wanted that and we fixed that.

So that's kind of cool show humidity on the home screen, yes or no. That's totally up to you. I've had customers that once again, I just drives them bonkers. In case you didn't know you there's a safe zone, safe zone.

We have the actually a chart on our website that goes through. You know the different humidities and what's safe and what's not - and you know, if you start getting up into the 70 80 90 % range or you know down below the ten percent range, there's hope. Ro, you know actual breathing issues that can arise from that and but you know here in Virginia there are those summer days where you know I don't have a dehumidifier. Maybe I should probably get one but there's those days where the humidity will rise and it'll start to get up.

Sixty sixty-five percent - and you know, but then, as the day goes on, the AC runs it'll start to lower that humidity back down so anyway. The point is: it drives some people nuts, when they see the humidity up there and it's you know up there and we're getting ready to the next. I believe it to the next one there it is, you can actually, if, once again, if you have a hygrometer or psychrometer or whatever - and you know that this humidity reading is off, you got to realize these thermostats they're there. Not only are they measuring the room, but you know sometimes there's a hole in the wall behind it.

It's picking up temperature humidity from the wall. You know behind the wall, things like that and you can go in there and change these offsets because of that. So we're gon na leave that alone alert white indicator. This is another one of those, especially if you have a heating system where you know that this little light down here, it's actually red, where it will turn on every time.

The second stage or third stage comes on things like that, and it drives some customers, nuts, honestly I'll, usually turn that off. There's also a when you get to the home screen earlier. It said, updating, there's a alerts that will pop up different types of alerts. Things like hey it's, you know your date needs to be set, or you need to reconnect a Wi-Fi things like that alerts will pop up and and when that is on.

There. You'll have a little red light down here and a lot of customers don't want to see that it just drives on bonkers. So anyway, last thing, dealer name will usually as a dealer will you know, go ahead and punch in our information, but that's pretty much it. You can even put a little, you know if you're, if you are eating an air contract, to put a little message up there or whatever but yeah.

That's pretty much it that's the Honeywell 8000. I love it for the price point. It can do lots of different things. There aren't too many residential systems that it can't service and, of course it's like say it's Wi-Fi.

It's touch screen it's good. Looking thermostat at that price point, I know: there's prettier thermostats out there, maybe that you know maybe they're colorful or they're a different shape or whatever, but man the Honeywell 8000, for the price point is one stud of a thermostat. So anyway, we're done with the programming. If you went through that kind of reprogram your stuff you now, you know what all those mean it dawn exit setup.

Yes, do you want to save your changes? Yes and it'll save them, so I'm pretty cool, I'm gon na actually go back outside of the programming and show you a couple more things that if you have any thousand you you would want to know. The first thing is, as you see, I got my temperature range over here at this time of year, which I'm actually in the beginning of spring, so got some cool days and nights and we're not up here a whole lot and it stays pretty couple. It's a little cool up here now, 66 degrees, but you know I'd, say mid day: it'll sometimes rise up here you know, get close up to 70 and we're not even up here so even without the system running it'll it'll. Do that.

So that's why I my range is so big right now, however, if you do make it the change, see I'm gon na go ahead and cancel hold. If you do make a change, you'll see where it comes up, it'll, say, temporary, hold or permanent hold see, see if you can see that okay temporary hold permit hold. What that is, is if it's a temporary hold. It is gon na hold it that thermostat or that at that temperature that you just set it at until your next scheduled period and your schedule.

So if you, if you're running a program, a schedule until that next so, for example, it's five o'clock right now, you change it, it's temporary hold and then your next scheduled, you know, and your calendar of the schedule you're running or your thermostat at eight o'clock. It'll go back to running the schedule at eight o'clock. Okay, but permanent hold is permanent. Permanent done always hit done when you make a change.

This thermostat you're gon na want to hit done, but anyway, permit a hold. It's gon na permanently hold at that temperature. Until you hit cancel hold so hopefully you can see that so I'm gon na put my heat back down here, where I had it kind of hot here. Okay, so next thing is fan, we got one, that's where the fan would stay on constantly a lot of customers have said what says one, why I want it to be on so, of course, I'm gon na pick on one, but what they don't realize is one Means one whether the system mean isn't you know running or not? One is on as long as one right.

So it's got to be one. If you turn this at one, if you have any indoor air quality products, UV light ionizer, you know a bodacious of filter filtering the air different indoor air quality. You might have turn that on one as you can see, I have it on auto and then also, if you have any indoor air quality, you might turn circulate on and I've heard different people say they might turn circulate on in the summertime to kind of circulate. Some of the air through the house, but you also might turn that one again, if you have some indoor air quality products to you know so that way it comes one and what circulate is is whether the system is calling or not.

Even if it's not calling it's gon na come one periodically and circulate that air so done system and as you can see, we've got some different options here: heat cool. If you have a backup form of heat, you might see emergency heat as an option here. Since I don't it's not an option, so we're gon na leave that on auto. What's that temperature range done and that's pretty much it as far as that goes, you have any questions if you'd, like it, honeywell 8,000 we'd love to earn your business, give us a call at Griffin, air, eight.

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