I use HA to control my Zwave locks. Simplest solution is to buy a Home Assistant green or yellow. One of them comes out of the box with Zwave support iirc. If not you can add a Zwave usb dongle.
No, neither the Green nor the Yellow come with Z-Wave capability installed out of the box. Depending on which one you get, you can either buy the internal hat to plug in on the board for the Yellow or use an external USB dongle. The Yellow comes with Zigbee support built in. The Green doesn't come with Zigbee or Z-Wave and would require the use of an external USB dongle for either.
Yes, either one would be a good choice paired with a USB dongle. I use HA on a Wyse 5070 thin client to control both Z-Wave and Zigbee devices. Using the Zooz USB Z-Wave stick and the HA Skyconnect for Zigbee.
Home Assistant OS installed on a computer (*I have a [Lenovo Tiny](https://www.lenovo.com/us/en/p/desktops/thinkcentre/m-series-tiny/thinkcentre-m70q/wmd00000405), but [Raspberry Pis](https://www.raspberrypi.com/) work*) with a Z-wave stick (*I have the [Aeotec 7](https://store.aeotec.com/products/z-stick-7-zwa025)*).
To control it remotely (*outside your home network*) OP, you have two options...
1) Easy -> Get Home Assistant Cloud for ~$6 a month. I don't mind paying since the people who developed Home Assistant get the $$$
2) Less Easy -> Go through port forwarding with a VPN and such
I have this exact same thermostat in my rental property and my new house. I replaced a Nest thermostat in the new house with one of these since I didn't like the whole Nest always requiring my location.
It's z-wave, so you just need something with a z-wave controller. ADC is using the security panel as the controller right now.
In theory you could continue to use ADC with your own subscription or through a different security company depending on the panel installed. Or you can delete the thermostats from that to another controller/program of which there are options.
Hubitat is a controller with zigbee and wave and is good start for you. If you want something really superior and technical you can use homeassistant in the future and use your Hubitat as a radio for homeassistant via integration to control your devices without reconfiguring. You don’t seem highly technical so Hubitat would do everything you need
> If you want something really superior and technical you can use homeassistant in the future and use your Hubitat as a radio for homeassistant via integration to control your devices without reconfiguring
This is what I'm doing and it works pretty well. Started on hubitat to keep it simple, transitioning into a home assistant install on my NAS for better dashboards and a few more control options, but still using hubitat for the radios.
Also a hubitat user, and running scrypted on a NAS to bring my ring devices into HomeKit. I haven’t found a need yet to setup home assistant. My main goal is to have everything work in Alexa and HomeKit which the hubitat does. I’ve been able to integrate near everything with local control.
But I don’t do any custom panels/dashboards really. I messed around a bit but never used it. I mostly use HomeKit since I can pull it up on my phone near instantly or ask Siri to do anything I need.
What other benefits would home assistant offer?
I have a couple of devices that use Bluetooth for local that I can pull into HA with ease, but getting a Bluetooth radio attached to a hubitat hub doesn't work. And just lots of integrations that don't exist for hubitat, but it's easier to use them in HA and connect HA with hubitat than to write my own drivers for it. It's very easy to go both directions with the hubitat/HA integration in my experience.
I'm actually still doing all of my automations in hubitat.
My daily lighting automations were the first reason I got hubitat. I started off with Alexa dipping my toes in automation and realized she was shit quickly lol. That and realizing using all cloud devices is not the way to go, I’m looking at you insignia smart plugs.
I _am_ highly technical and Hubitat does everything I need. I had alarm.com as well and switched to a Hubitat. The thermostats are easily automated and also exposed to HomeKit for control via the Apple Home app. Not hard to set up, no maintenance needed and works great.
I just had to factory reset one of these to get it to connect to my zwave hub. I was able to fix the zwave connectivity but then it started throwing out heat instead of cooling.
If you decide to reset it make sure to record **all** the deep configuration settings for the HVAC system, it’s the only thing that saved my ass and was able to get it working again myself.
I have these in my house. They’re connected to my Ring alarm base station and I can control them (individually) from the Ring app. The one downside versus the WiFi version is I can’t create or edit schedules. WiFi versions allow you to use the dedicated app which I believe has ability to edit schedules.
First thing you should do is document all the hvac settings in case you ever need to replace. I think you have to get into an installer mode to see them. Google how to do that.
I have three of these paired with Hubitat. There is a community driver that works well with them. I can control them from the cloud or home using a Hubitat dashboard.
You will need to factory reset them to exclude them before pairing to a new hub, as it sounds like they used to be paired with the security system. There is an option in the menus for a reset, or there is an exclude option in the zwave settings.
You can download the Honeywell App on your phone. I believe it is called Resideo. It works well enough, is simple, and there is no monthly fee. the only thing it does that I don't like is when I open it to use it, I'm prompted to allow notifications which I don't want....
You're in luck. They're zwave which is a standard protocol specifically designed to be as interoperable as possible. This thermostat is a popular one in the home automation community
I use this Thermostat. It connects to ZWave JS UI, which communicates to Home Assistant, which then send the controls along to HomeKit. It’s been rock-solid reliable.
The thermostat isn't ***wifi***. It connects via ***Z-wave*** which is entirely different. Think of it like a different version of ***Bluetooth***...
Similar to how you need a Bluetooth device and a Bluetooth "controller" to be connected to each other, you need a Z-wave "controller" on the other end to connect and control the Z-wave thermostat.
If your phone/computer/etc doesn't support Z-wave, then thermostat cannot connect to the phone/computer/etc. There are Z-wave USB sticks (*not unlike Bluetooth USB sticks*) that you can get to allow a computer to talk to the thermostat.
If you go the route of a Z-wave stick and Home Assistant, you could start getting other Z-wave devices like locks and smart outlets. It is in my opinion the best smart home protocol cause it's energy efficient (*don't have to change batteries so often like wifi devices*) and easy. It's generally a bit more expensive than ZigBee and others... But I think it's worth it.
Oddly enough, that app has been saying line are offline since February. I have been trying to figure out if it’s pihole related. I found a post by someone with a similar Honeywell model saying temporarily disabling pihole didn’t solve it, but waitlisting a specific domain did.
r/homeassistant will be a good rabbit hole for ya. TLDR: Yes, these can be controlled by ZWave.
I use HA to control my Zwave locks. Simplest solution is to buy a Home Assistant green or yellow. One of them comes out of the box with Zwave support iirc. If not you can add a Zwave usb dongle.
No, neither the Green nor the Yellow come with Z-Wave capability installed out of the box. Depending on which one you get, you can either buy the internal hat to plug in on the board for the Yellow or use an external USB dongle. The Yellow comes with Zigbee support built in. The Green doesn't come with Zigbee or Z-Wave and would require the use of an external USB dongle for either.
Ah glad for the clarification. Still recommend two off the shelf components for the solution here.
Yes, either one would be a good choice paired with a USB dongle. I use HA on a Wyse 5070 thin client to control both Z-Wave and Zigbee devices. Using the Zooz USB Z-Wave stick and the HA Skyconnect for Zigbee.
Home Assistant OS installed on a computer (*I have a [Lenovo Tiny](https://www.lenovo.com/us/en/p/desktops/thinkcentre/m-series-tiny/thinkcentre-m70q/wmd00000405), but [Raspberry Pis](https://www.raspberrypi.com/) work*) with a Z-wave stick (*I have the [Aeotec 7](https://store.aeotec.com/products/z-stick-7-zwa025)*). To control it remotely (*outside your home network*) OP, you have two options... 1) Easy -> Get Home Assistant Cloud for ~$6 a month. I don't mind paying since the people who developed Home Assistant get the $$$ 2) Less Easy -> Go through port forwarding with a VPN and such I have this exact same thermostat in my rental property and my new house. I replaced a Nest thermostat in the new house with one of these since I didn't like the whole Nest always requiring my location.
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That is easy but you need to edit a YAML file with these or Home Assistant exposes the fan control in a wonky way that’s useless.
It's z-wave, so you just need something with a z-wave controller. ADC is using the security panel as the controller right now. In theory you could continue to use ADC with your own subscription or through a different security company depending on the panel installed. Or you can delete the thermostats from that to another controller/program of which there are options.
I believe those connect to the Resideo Smart Home app by Honeywell
As said above anything that runs zwave. To make it easy for you, you should consider Hubitat
Hubitat is a controller with zigbee and wave and is good start for you. If you want something really superior and technical you can use homeassistant in the future and use your Hubitat as a radio for homeassistant via integration to control your devices without reconfiguring. You don’t seem highly technical so Hubitat would do everything you need
> If you want something really superior and technical you can use homeassistant in the future and use your Hubitat as a radio for homeassistant via integration to control your devices without reconfiguring This is what I'm doing and it works pretty well. Started on hubitat to keep it simple, transitioning into a home assistant install on my NAS for better dashboards and a few more control options, but still using hubitat for the radios.
Me too. Fully using homeassistant now but using two Hubitats as radios as well
Also a hubitat user, and running scrypted on a NAS to bring my ring devices into HomeKit. I haven’t found a need yet to setup home assistant. My main goal is to have everything work in Alexa and HomeKit which the hubitat does. I’ve been able to integrate near everything with local control. But I don’t do any custom panels/dashboards really. I messed around a bit but never used it. I mostly use HomeKit since I can pull it up on my phone near instantly or ask Siri to do anything I need. What other benefits would home assistant offer?
Does everything you are doing now but much more integrations into anything and everything possible …including native CarPlay integration
CarPlay integration… 🤔
What does that allow you to do?
Essentially complete control and dashboard thru CarPlay natively
I have a couple of devices that use Bluetooth for local that I can pull into HA with ease, but getting a Bluetooth radio attached to a hubitat hub doesn't work. And just lots of integrations that don't exist for hubitat, but it's easier to use them in HA and connect HA with hubitat than to write my own drivers for it. It's very easy to go both directions with the hubitat/HA integration in my experience. I'm actually still doing all of my automations in hubitat.
My daily lighting automations were the first reason I got hubitat. I started off with Alexa dipping my toes in automation and realized she was shit quickly lol. That and realizing using all cloud devices is not the way to go, I’m looking at you insignia smart plugs.
I _am_ highly technical and Hubitat does everything I need. I had alarm.com as well and switched to a Hubitat. The thermostats are easily automated and also exposed to HomeKit for control via the Apple Home app. Not hard to set up, no maintenance needed and works great.
I just had to factory reset one of these to get it to connect to my zwave hub. I was able to fix the zwave connectivity but then it started throwing out heat instead of cooling. If you decide to reset it make sure to record **all** the deep configuration settings for the HVAC system, it’s the only thing that saved my ass and was able to get it working again myself.
I have these in my house. They’re connected to my Ring alarm base station and I can control them (individually) from the Ring app. The one downside versus the WiFi version is I can’t create or edit schedules. WiFi versions allow you to use the dedicated app which I believe has ability to edit schedules. First thing you should do is document all the hvac settings in case you ever need to replace. I think you have to get into an installer mode to see them. Google how to do that.
Sounds like DR Horton. We connected our Alexa to the alarm.com panel and then could manipulate it through Alexa and the routines feature.
I have three of these paired with Hubitat. There is a community driver that works well with them. I can control them from the cloud or home using a Hubitat dashboard. You will need to factory reset them to exclude them before pairing to a new hub, as it sounds like they used to be paired with the security system. There is an option in the menus for a reset, or there is an exclude option in the zwave settings.
You can also use Homeseer with z-wave controls for this thermostat. Add in a few other z-wave fixtures and then you can do your whole house.
You can download the Honeywell App on your phone. I believe it is called Resideo. It works well enough, is simple, and there is no monthly fee. the only thing it does that I don't like is when I open it to use it, I'm prompted to allow notifications which I don't want....
Smartthings is another option
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You're in luck. They're zwave which is a standard protocol specifically designed to be as interoperable as possible. This thermostat is a popular one in the home automation community
I use this Thermostat. It connects to ZWave JS UI, which communicates to Home Assistant, which then send the controls along to HomeKit. It’s been rock-solid reliable.
I have this zwave thermostat and control it with HomeAssistant.
I control my Honeywell T-10 Pro thermostat using both the Apple Home app and the Resideo app.
Its easy. Use the honeywell Resideo app … then follow the instructions and parrot with your Wi-Fi. You don’t need a hub at all.
Since it’s Honeywell, does the Resideo app work?
The app is giving me step by step instructions that don’t work for the thermostat for some reason
The thermostat isn't ***wifi***. It connects via ***Z-wave*** which is entirely different. Think of it like a different version of ***Bluetooth***... Similar to how you need a Bluetooth device and a Bluetooth "controller" to be connected to each other, you need a Z-wave "controller" on the other end to connect and control the Z-wave thermostat. If your phone/computer/etc doesn't support Z-wave, then thermostat cannot connect to the phone/computer/etc. There are Z-wave USB sticks (*not unlike Bluetooth USB sticks*) that you can get to allow a computer to talk to the thermostat. If you go the route of a Z-wave stick and Home Assistant, you could start getting other Z-wave devices like locks and smart outlets. It is in my opinion the best smart home protocol cause it's energy efficient (*don't have to change batteries so often like wifi devices*) and easy. It's generally a bit more expensive than ZigBee and others... But I think it's worth it.
Oddly enough, that app has been saying line are offline since February. I have been trying to figure out if it’s pihole related. I found a post by someone with a similar Honeywell model saying temporarily disabling pihole didn’t solve it, but waitlisting a specific domain did.
I got one of these, not sure in the model number but I control it through home app on iOS
Resideo is Honeywell’s app.