RTH7600D 7-Day Programmable Touchscreen Thermostat, White

Man I am so glad this thermostat works well. We were short on money when our thermostat stopped working so we did the research read the reviews, tried to decipher between AI reviews and real life people who actually bought and used this thermostat and settled on this Honeywell Home thermostat. I love that it's simple! We have our rechargeable batteries in this thermostat and we recharge them every month, for the 3 months of Summer and the 3 months of winter when we use it daily, but we haven't had to recharge them at all during fall or spring as we only have used the thermostat four or five times. I love how simple and easy it is to use. All you have to do is turn it on with a little slide lever that slides to the right for heat into the left for cool and there are little arrow shaped buttons to turn the thermostat up or down. It seems like a sturdy little simple thermostat that looks nice and updated for a simple thermostat. If you're looking for something that is ultra modern with beautiful lights and lots of digital settings this isn't that, but I think that is clear in the description. This thermostat turns the air conditioning or Heating on quickly within seconds of switching it on but that's pretty much due to having a good charged battery set in the thermostat. The on and off slider is durable and the temperature setting buttons are about the size of your fingerprint and easy to see and press. Everything is on the faceplate and the up down buttons on the side with the on-off switch on the bottom front make this thermostat absolutely perfect for us.

After deciding to upgrade my thermostat, it was either the Honeywell RTH7600D or a similar touchscreen unit from Lux or Hunter. I'll admit, I was partially biased when I shopped around as Honeywell is the brand I've had in virtually every apartment and house I've lived in pretty much throughout my adult life. In fact, I had never heard of Lux before I started shopping around and I've only known Hunter to make cheap air filters. The other models were cheaper and had some extra features I admit were tempting, but in the end I had to go with the brand I know and trust. Glad I did! The reviews here are spot on; it was very easy to install. I had a question about one of the wires that wasn't clearly addressed in the manual, so I called Honeywell tech support in the middle of the install. I reached an agent within seconds and he answered my question in literally less than 2 minutes. The entire install took less than 10 minutes. The screen is easy to read and responsive, don't have to press too hard. Lights up when touched, avoiding a need for a night light. I always try to touch the lower right corner of the screen to activate it to avoid changing anything on accident, but as long as you only touch one area once, it will just light up and not actually change or activate anything. It was pretty easy to set up the daily programs. I love the fact that I can keep the fan running constantly 24/7 with or without the AC or heat on. The ability of the device to learn how long it takes to bring the house to a set temperature by a certain time works very well. My wife wakes up to a warm 74 degrees while I wake up 4 hours later to the cool 71 I prefer. This is a really easy to use thermostat that has all the essential features for automated climate control and much more. It seems very well-built and high quality. I definitely recommend it. As a previous reviewer said, it's the Cadillac of thermostats!

I got this unit to replace a 29-year old Honeywell Chronotherm 3 that controls our 2-stage forced air gas furnace. I installed it this evening. I got this unit specifically because it says it works with a 2 stage furnace. Apparently not all thermostats do. It also allows for 7-day programming, which I'm used to from the Chronotherm 3. (Vs. programming all weekdays alike and Sat and Sun alike.) I took a photo of the wiring in the old unit before taking it off the wall. (This thermostat comes with tags to put on the wires to help remember where they go in the new unit, but a photo was less cumbersome and my wires coming out of the wall were pretty short so I don't think there was room for the tags anyway.) The main delay in wiring up the new unit was that I had to paint the wall where the old unit was because it was bigger than this new one. I put a clothes pin on the wires to keep them from falling back inside the wall when I was painting. Once the paint was dry, wiring this baby up was pretty straightforward. I found it helpful to use some needle nose pliers to help get the wires into the holes. You'll need a smaller-than-usual flathead screw driver to set the screws. The designations for the wires on the new unit match up with the ones from the old unit, so that was easy. Programming the unit was fairly easy, although not perfectly simple, I think. I had to press a little harder on the touch screen than I had expected, but it wasn't difficult. I had a little trouble getting into the Schedule screen where you enter codes for the kind of system you have (in my case a 2-stage gas furnace with no air conditioner). I bypassed that programming section to go on to scheduling, thinking I might call the customer service number for help programming the system, but I went back later, tried it again, and got it this time. Not sure what I was getting wrong earlier; possibly something about not holding one button long enough. Scheduling was pretty straightforward. There are four periods for each day and you set the time and temperature for each one. I set all the weekdays together at the same time. I set Sat and Sunday each with their own schedule. The unit is running the furnace now and it seems to be working as expected. I'd give it five stars but to me five stars suggests perfection. It seems to WORK perfectly but maybe a five star unit would've installed itself? I'm a reasonably handy guy who does residential remodeling for a paycheck, but I think anyone with patience and basic homeowner skills could install this. Our last Honeywell thermostat lasted 29 years. Our Trane furnace wasn't supposed to last this long but it keeps chugging along, even surprising the techs who service it. (Take this as encouragement to buy a Trane.) I expect this new unit will outlast the furnace but maybe it can run the next one?

05/2014 Update: I now recommend this product. I have reinstalled the unit WITHOUT using the instructions and this time it has been working just fine. The setup is great and works well for our Illinois weather when it can be 80 in the day and 40 at night. The temperature range can't get that close but it makes sense and I think it's a reasonable spread. I do like that the heat and cooling can both be set to kick in according to what temperature it is, just a great idea that someone should have come up with a long time ago. It's not as smart as those fancy cell phone enabled controllers but it's also not as expensive. I would have given a half star less if possible because of the mess up with the instructions but it also could have just been the way my system is wired up so I'm keeping it a 5 star rating unless I find something wrong. I'm glad I was able to get this thing working because I kept it too long to send it back! 04/2014 Edit: I am giving this unit another try. I will try to remember to update the review if it works this time. What I did differently was completely redo the wiring system and re-installed this unit from scratch to see if there was an installation problem. Original Review: This unit worked great... until it stopped turning on the Air Conditioning... I had to replace it with my previous unit, also from Honeywell and one I've had for 8 years and two different homes (one apartment and one house). I think this might just be a defective unit, but until I get a replacement I'm giving this a 1 star. Product quality should count for something, in my opinion.

I read every single review before buying this thermostat. The reviews made the smoke come out of my ears. A majority of buyers like this product. But a significant minority didn't. Among the complaints I noted: -- 1. You need to touch a button on the touchscreen to activate the back light, but this also activates whatever button you touch, whether you wanted to do that or not -- 2. Programming is indirect; you must use -- and therefore memorize, or use the manual as a reference for -- numerical codes to perform various functions. -- 3. The touchscreen is not responsive. -- 4. The touchscreen back light does not stay on for a sufficiently long period of time. -- 5. If left in default mode, the thermostat will start an hour or two early before the time programmed for a specified temperature to be reached. One thing to keep in mind is that the copious reviews of this popular product go back a good many years. In the interim, Honeywell may have upgraded the software or firmware, so that different reviewers often seem like they are talking about entirely different products. As a prelude, a note about me: I can't figure out most of the features on my non-smart cellphone. Enough said. Despite the fact that installation looks simple for do-it-yourselfers, I am of the pay-a-pro-to-do-it tribe. I was displeased to see that the old Honeywell vertically oriented manual thermostat that this new baby was replacing left unsightly marks on the wall not entirely covered by this new, horizontally oriented thermostat. If this sounds like you, be prepared. I must say that the very large number of negative reviews put me in a fearful state of mind. But this Honeywell worked exactly as described. So let me address the negative comments that caused me so much pre-purchase grief: 1. The touch of the touchscreen is my favorite feature on this thermostat. My primary experience with touchscreens is in grocery stores and bank ATMs. You have to give those touchscreen buttons a good assertive push. Not so with this Honeywell touchscreen. The merest touch sparks it to life. It's stupidly satisfying. Nothing other than the back light is activated by touching a button that activates the touch screen. You need to touch any button again to get that button to do what it is programmed to do. They are two distinct movements. 2. Numerical codes no longer exist. Programming is straightforward. It isn't intuitive in the least. You are presented with clearly labeled buttons. 3. This model thermostat has been around for several years. Perhaps its parts were upgraded without fanfare. But this is honestly the most responsive touch screen I have ever used. I actually only have to touch it, as opposed to the aggressive finger jabs ATM machines force me to use. Here, it's light-light touch-touch-done in about 5 seconds. You actually experience a ridiculous moment of pleasure that finally something works properly. 4. I'm sorry, I was too lazy to time it (I do have a life), but the touch screen light seems to stay on a good amount of time. I programmed an entire week day by day with no problem, although admittedly it wasn't in the dead of night, when some people apparently program their thermostats. Okay, I felt guilty, so I programmed the thing in pitch blackness. Well, except for the back light. No problemo. I will need to think of some totally dark situations when my thermostat needs programming so I can tax this cool feature to the limit, as we men are programmed to do. 5. If you leave this thermostat in default mode, if you specify that you want the house to be 72 degrees at 7 am, it may very well start your cooling system an hour or two earlier. From the manufacturer's perspective, this is a prime selling point of this thermostat: that it knows to start cooling your place earlier than you indicated to get the temperature to the degree that you indicated by the indicated time. This is actually not a defect. It's the single biggest feature of this device. If you don't like automation, you can turn it off. (Keep in mind that if you specify 72 degrees at 7 am, and the thermostat turns on your air conditioner at 7 am, your place may be 10 degrees hotter, which will take longer to achieve your desired temperature. If you have a good commute to work and are on a stopwatch from the moment you wake till the moment you leave, that's a factor.) If you don't know how to turn off this feature, Honeywell has very good technical support. There is no such thing as a non-ugly thermostat. This is pretty ugly too. Compared to the others, though, it's a lot less ugly. Life is a compromise.

I bought this thermostat last April to replace my 22 year old Honeywell thermostat that just gave up. I thought I'd buy this based on the amount of good reviews, the price and my experience with Honeywell products. Most Honeywell products I have purchased have always been trouble-free for many, many years. I should have done a little more research on this particular unit....but live and learn I guess. The thermostat arrives and everything seems to be in order. Installing this thermostat is nothing short of a nightmare. The directions were fairly straight forward, but the connections labels are misleading and the jumper wire is a very cheap microscopic c-clip that can fall out if you're not careful. Mine did, and it took a better part of 45 minutes to try to find in the carpet. Once I verified everything was connected correctly and had new lithium batteries installed. I turned the power back on to the HVAC system. The minute I touched the thermostat to turn the heat on, it went blank. It came back on 30 seconds later only to go blank again. I took it back off and cleaned the wires thinking maybe they were a bit corroded and not making a good connection. I did that and it seems to work fine after that.....or so I thought. Setting the programme schedule wasn't too difficult although it took many more steps than I would have liked. The programme schedule worked fine....as long as the thermostat was on. My problems really started in the middle of Summer. I don't run the A/C that much so I would have the unit turned OFF. The minute I touched the thermostat to turn the A/C on, it would go blank. If I got it to work and left it alone using the programme it worked but it never seemed to register the correct room temperature, but the minute I touched the controls to adjust or turn off/on, it went blank. I called a service company out to check to see if there was a fault in the system that would cause the thermostat to power off and they couldn't find any. The tech tried to turn the A/C on and it went blank on him as well. While it was blank, he verified that there was power going to the thermostat and said this was a bad thermostat and suggested I try a different manufacture as Honeywell units are not very reliable anymore. I yanked this unit off the wall and bought a White-Rodgers unit that had a lower price and has performed flawlessly since.

Very easy to program and set up. The interface is straightforward and doesn’t take long to figure out. Works reliably and does exactly what I need.

I got this to replace my aging LUX Smart Temp TX500 programmable thermostat (the controls on it are not working well anymore). Installation for me was dead simple. I have steam heat, so there are only two wires to hook up. You need a fairly small flat head screwdriver in order to turn the little screws that clamp in the wires though. I like the 7 day programability, my schedule is different on Friday and the weekends, so it's nice to be able to set it differently for those days. It's not too hard to program either - duplicating the schedule for other days is a bit odd, but I think it's still easier than the lux. The display is nice and big, easy to read. It has a backlight so you can read it at night. You tap the display once to turn the backlight on, and then again to do a function. Overriding the preset temp is a bit odd, you press the up/down arrows, and the new temp starts flashing. If you leave it, after a few seconds it applies the new temp. It's a bit weird to get used to though, the LUX would apply the new temp as soon as you hit the button. The smart response tech works pretty well. When I come home at 6, the temp is exactly at 68, just like I set it. However, it is not all perfect. As I mentioned before, I have steam heat. That means big clunky radiators that stay hot for quite a while after the furnace turns off. The thermostat turns the heat off when the temp reaches exactly 68. However, the radiators stay hot, so the temp will continue to climb to about 70. This is annoying because it means the temp will have to drop by at least 2 degrees before the thermostat will kick in again, and probably drop another degree before the radiators get hot, and then repeat the same cycle all again. I was expecting the thermostat to be smart enough to figure this out, and turn the heat off before 68 so the temp would remain more consistent. Every thermostat I've ever owned had this issue. Overall this is not a bad thermostat, but it didn't work perfectly in my application. It still works well enough that I didn't return it, but I was a little disappointed. I may try one other setting to see if it makes any difference (I have it set for "steam" but maybe it'll work better on the default of "gas boiler").

Just started using it few days ago. So far work good Edit After using on program daily for a while, I'm getting frustrated, it's start 1 hr early than program. So far not sure why

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This thermostat is perfect for my electric baseboard heating system that has a thermostat on a transformer and uses a two wire system (had an old style mercury switch thermostat in place before). Once you figure out which of the two wires go where (in my case black wire to W and white wire to R) it all worked well. A little challenging to program the installers features but once you learn you’re good to go. No C wire needed as it runs on two AA batteries. It controls the heat perfectly and is simple enough for most people to use. Just the fact that it sets the heat back at night so I’m not spending money (electric heat is expensive) while I sleep. Recommended product.

So far, thermostat works good! No issues!

Ive had this for a few months now. It worked originally but now does not come on at all. Very disappointed. Waste of money