Greetings from Tucson, all. The local electric utility company is offering a free smart thermostat, and they’re allowing the customer to choose between these 2 options. This would be my first-ever home automation item. I do have WiFi, and I do have a (“budget”) smartphone (a Google Pixel 3a, as it happens). (I will probably be buying a new phone 1 year from now, unfortunately.) My home is a 793-sq ft, 1-bedroom, downstairs condo unit. I turned 50 this year, and I have come to value “buy it once for life” products. Any thoughts and experiences would be most welcome. Thank you for your time.
If those are my only choices I’d go Honeywell. Nest is easy to operate, but you’re married to Google where the Honeywell works with other home integration software.
I’m pretty biased against Google and nest so take that with a grain of salt
I don’t know the Honeywell, but I hated the Nest our house came with. It was just a bunch of minor annoyances like not being able to set and indefinitely hold a temperature. I replaced it with an Ecobee.