Seeking not-too-smart thermostat

[ndarilek (Nolan Darilek)]

Hello,

Back in 2016 or so I bought a Radiotherm thermostat, and it was nice, but the remote service shut down and I left it at my previous apartment. Can anyone recommend a good relatively inexpensive smart thermostat?

I’d prefer something that doesn’t need a cloud service at all–I’m running everything through Tailscale so don’t really need it. Also, something with physical buttons would be nice. It just needs to be smart enough to connect reliably with HA–I’ll do all my scheduling/programming from Home Assistant, not from the thermostat itself.

Thanks!

[Didgeridrew]

"Dumb" smart thermostat recommendation

I’ve been using an old wifi thermostat from 3M/Filtrete that had a local REST API that I used to control it with NodeRed and now HA. After 10+ years (and long after they discontinued cloud support), it’s finally seems to have died though it was in conjunction with some wiring issues/shorts I found on the capacitor which may or may not be related. In any case, I need a new thermostat. Wondering if anyone can suggest something. Wifi or Zigbee, though strongly prefer REST type control over wifi…

[WallyR (Wally)]

I have come to like Homematic IP devices.

The benefit for me is that they can be fully controlled by HA through RaspberryMatic or Debmatic.
They can be programmed on the thermostat themself and from HA those settings can also be retrieved and stored, so you can choose where you want to have your programming controlled from.
The Homematic IP devices can have channels assigned, so a thermostat can be assigned the same channel as a wall thermometer or door/window sensors and the thermostat can then react to those eventhough HA and RaspberryMatic/Debmatic is down.