2025 Thermostat Thoughts - Local Control

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I am in the US and looking to replace some early generation Nest thermostats that came with the house I bought 3 years ago.

I have 1 for AC and 4 for propane water boiler baseboard radiator zones. Since I will need 5 of them, low cost is preferred.

I’m not looking for anything fancy but preferably something modern looking with the following features:

  • Local only control, no cloud
  • History in home assistant - current Nest thermostats don’t show events in the log book
  • Ability to control the fan independently for AC - currently doesn’t work right
  • Control temperature and fan from the physical unit

I’ve been looking at these:

Ecobee Essential Smart Thermostat Essential | ecobee
Honeywell T6 Pro Z-Wave https://www.honeywellhome.com/us/en/products/air/thermostats/programmable-thermostats/t6-pro-z-wave-thermostat-th6320zw2003-u/

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have this. works great. does all you asked for

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The new nests should work locally over matter.

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Do the new Nest thermostats work without ever connecting to the Internet?

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I have several of the Honeywell T6 Pro units in different properties. They work very well. The downside is that they seem to be getting harder to find as Honeywell has discontinued making them as you can see on the linked page.

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This I am not sure of.

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Yeah that was my concern. I was thinking of either picking up some Honeywell units used for cheap or trying Ecobee.

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I just found this new option that uses Matter

But Fakespot thinks the Amazon product reviews are mostly fake

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