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hi I'm Mike with house on the mend and
today we're going to be replacing this
existing thermostat with a new Honeywell
Wi-Fi enabled smart thermostat now I'm
very excited to bring you this video I
get a lot of requests from my customers
to replace their existing equipment with
new Wi-Fi or smart home and abled
equipment such as thermostats doorbells
garage door openers and then all of the
various things that go along with the
Amazon echo and Google assistance now
the Honeywell thermostat is very popular
it's about 85 dollars or so currently on
Amazon which is quite a bit cheaper than
the more sleek looking nest thermostats
a lot of what we're going to be talking
about today with the installation
portion is going to be relatively the
same with any type of thermostat that
draws power from the unit it's going to
need what's called a/c wire and that's
just simply a common wire meaning that
it's going to supply power to the
thermostat at all times whether or not
the unit is running now older
thermostats that have a little bit of
mercury in them and that mercury creates
a switch of when it gets hot or cold in
the house depending on where the setting
is it kicks on some of those systems
don't have a/c wire meaning they don't
need to draw power from the HVAC unit in
those situations where you don't have AC
wire a common wire to supply power to
the Wi-Fi enabled thermostat you will
need to either run a another line from
your HVAC unit or you can buy a plug-in
system that will supply that power and
then you run it behind the wall
but for this existing thermostat here it
is a newer type thermostat that
actually draws power from the HVAC unit
so we already have that C wire or common
wire and won't need to do any of those
steps I just described anyway without
further ado let's zoom in and get
started on replacing this thermostat
with the Honeywell alright let me first
start off by saying that this existing
total line thermostat hasn't given the
homeowner any problems whatsoever they
just want to trade it out for a Wi-Fi
enabled thermostat that can be
controlled when you're away from home
there have been times here in Las Vegas
in the summer they have forgotten to
turn down the thermostat when they leave
for work in school during the day and
they end up cooling the house all day
and that is a tremendous extra cost that
could be avoided if you realize you
haven't turned down or turned up the
thermostat and you can go right on your
phone and do so so nothing wrong with
this little unit here we just want to
give the customer the capability of
controlling their thermostat either by
voice with their Amazon system or went
away from home so let's start by just
unscrewing it from the bottom and I want
to show you something very interesting
about this total line thermostat
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alright now this thermostat here has the
unusual characteristic that it is
actually installed in a single gang box
electrical box most of your thermostats
stand proud of the wall and are just
anchored in with drywall screws or
anchors this unit is different in that
it has a box behind it that's going to
present a unique problem for us that
I'll show you how to solve here in just
a moment but before we get to that let's
take a look at the existing wiring on
this unit as you can see here the
original HVAC installer did us quite a
favor in that the wires the colors of
the wires are matching where they are
installed with the letters on the unit
itself so what I mean by that is this
red wire is going to the are this W wire
is going to the W this yellow wire is
going to the Y this green wire goes to
the G and this brown wire here is going
to the C so that means it's our C wire
or our common wire that is going to be
supplying full-time power so that's
going to be really easy for us to
remember not all units I have changed
out have been this friendly so when you
are removing your old thermostat make
sure you make note of what color wire is
going to each of these designated areas
on the old thermostat before you take
them all out
alright let me move this out of the way
and I want to show you the issue that
this gang box here presents on the back
of the thermostat that we're going to be
installing today is this plate right
here and if you look
the height of this plate is going to be
less than the height of the outlet box
so we are gonna need to make up for that
gap because it certainly won't be made
up with just the thickness of the
thermostat itself there would be a gap
showing on either side and so I've got a
very inexpensive way to make up for that
area what we're gonna do is take one of
these double gang box wall plates and
we're going to install that right over
the single box and then we'll be able to
install the thermostat right centered in
it and it'll look really nice and clean
without having to do anything else there
I'm sure there are other systems you
could buy to cap this off but this one
is very inexpensive it's under $1 so as
you'll see here it's gonna work great
now if you don't have this issue with
your thermostat please feel free to fast
forward to the point where we actually
start wiring up the thermostat but this
is such an interesting issue that isn't
commonly come across that I wanted to
show you how to fix it now the first
thing we need to take into consideration
is the orientation of this plate does it
go like this is a good like this well
these screws are going to go right into
these two areas here where a normal
light switch screws in so we are gonna
line that up right like this and that is
the orientation of how we are going to
install this so what we want to do is
take the back plate for the thermostat
center it up onto this wall plate mark
out where we are going to drill some
holes we're going to need three holes
one for the cord with all the wires to
come through and then the other two to
simply mount the back wall plate onto
this cover plate
all right so I took my handy sharpie and
I lined up these holes right here well
nice and centered on this wall plate and
that's where we're gonna drill now I
want to be just an area big enough of a
drill hole over to this side which is
the opening side of the plate and not
over into here where we're in the end of
the drywall and then these screw holes
here will just be big enough to accept a
couple of screws that will go in there
and hold that in place so I'm gonna go
drill this plate out and when we come
back we will remove the old thermostat
and run the wiring through the bigger
hole install this wall plate in and then
we'll attach the back plate and we'll
continue on with the normal installation
of this thermostat all right so it
drilled out the holes here here and here
for the wires and for the plate to go on
and then I disconnected the old
thermostat and ran it through a little
tip when you're doing that I would turn
off the breaker if you know right where
it's at
otherwise just make sure you keep all of
these individual wires from touching
each other they are not high voltage so
they are not a risk to you however if
the wires start touching each other they
can kick on the AC the fan the heater
all those sorts of thing and start
driving your HVAC unit wild which is not
healthy for it so just keep the wires a
little bit separated like this so they
don't touch and then we'll wire them up
here in just a moment alright so I'm
just lining up these two holes right
here with the gangue box screw holes and
what I want to do is also mark this hole
right here and right here so that we can
put screws in that will look the same so
everything looks nice and uniform and
then right over here on this one we're
going to take advantage
of the drywall that we have here and
we're going to put a drywall anchor
right there and then we'll just have a
regular screw grow go through the the
plastic since there's nothing behind it
and now that we've marked the area for
the holes we can take my handy dandy
drill here and we've got a bit on there
that's right around the same size as the
furnished anchors and we're just going
to screw right into those as always when
it before I do any screwing into
sheetrock I always tape up a bag
underneath to catch all of the drywall
coming out so that I have less of a mess
to clean up afterwards so let's just go
right in here and now that we've drilled
our holes we can go ahead and put the
anchors that are included in the kit
just finger tight here on these and we
will just knock them into place with a
hammer all right with our anchors in I
can just all right now let's attach this
plate with the screws that were provided
with it we're just going to start this
off by hand then we'll come back and
tighten everything down once we've got
the plate put into position
like be very gentle when I'm seating
these plates so they don't crack alright
here's the point of the video where we
come back to the normal installation if
you didn't have this interesting issue
to work through with the gang box then
you'd be wanting to fast-forward right
to the spot that I left a link in the
description for so let's just run these
wires right through this part of the
plate and get that set into position I'm
going to start one screw right here got
one started right there
now let's get this one going
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you see that just a bit all right so I
pushed all that wiring back in behind
this wall plate and I straightened out
the wires and we are ready to start
hooking them up and got them in order to
go right along with how they are on the
Honeywell backplate we got our four red
Y for yellow C for common W for white
and G for green so let's get these going
right into these corresponding slots
they slip right in from the top and then
these tiny little areas here for a
flathead screwdriver and you just hand
tighten them down
really easy
and lastly we finish with the green I'm
just gonna push these back just a little
bit so they don't get in the way and
there we go
all right so that area where we just
plugged in is going to correspond with
this connection on the back of the
Honeywell so let's just turn around we
get it lined up and we click it right
into place and we can see that we've got
power to the unit and it's wanting us to
set the clock so currently here in Las
Vegas as I found this it's 326 in the
afternoon so let's get started go on up
to 326 and then let's set the day today
is Friday
and then we're done next let's set up
how we want the fan to go we want our
system to be currently here in the
winter set for heat and we're gonna
leave it at 62 so that we can test it
once we get the Wi-Fi set up going all
right you're gonna need a couple of
things to finish up our install as long
as we've got Wi-Fi set up blinking we're
in great shape we're gonna need this
little card that's got the MAC ID on it
and if you don't keep this card handy
all the informations on the back of the
unit you'd have to pull it off and write
it down so this comes in the book make
sure you keep that handy makes it a lot
simpler than having to take this back
off and write numbers down you also need
your phone going and it's kind of a
involved process when you consider some
of the other smart home technology items
out there you not only need the app
going but you also have to have their
browser going in a web browser to
complete it so anyway we go to the new
thermostat and we join that thermostat
that brings us over to that page that I
showed you and from here we decide what
Wi-Fi in the house we want to pair this
unit with there is an extender in the
house as well as the main unit so we're
gonna use this extender that's closer to
this area of the house and I'll type in
the password the homeowner gave me so I
type in that password it asked me to
reconfirm it and we connect all right
then it tells you now go to your new
thermostat and look at its display and
we can see that weight is blinking do
not proceed until the thermostat has
stopped blinking wait all right now you
can see we have Wi-Fi setup connection
success and we have the Wi-Fi signal
strength that's a good sign so our
thermostat is now blinking register at
Total Connect so from the website not
the app we hit add device and up comes
register the device asking for these two
numbers that come on this card or on the
back of the unit so first they're
wanting the device Mac let me type that
in and the device CRC code click on I am
not a robot and it's registering the
device on honeywell site all right
for security reasons we need to verify
that you have physical control of the
thermostat you are now being asked to
perform a setting change on your
thermostat refer to your product
operating manual if necessary after
successful registration the settings
change will be reverted back on a
mattock
go to your thermostat on the wall and
set the heat setpoint to 61 degrees
Fahrenheit so we'll press down twice
that gets us to 61 I have changed the
thermostat setting Submit
all right congratulations success so
setup complete is on the thermostat the
time is correct so we know we're in
business now let's go over to the app
and we'll control it will go into this
thermostat and let's set it
266 and submit
and as you can see here the temperature
we put in the app registered onto the
device I now let's get the unit set up
with the homeowners Amazon echo device
so we'll hit had device from the smart
home section in the app and we get the
notification that'll that she found the
device so we'll go down here and we'll
locate our brand new thermostat there we
go
thermostat tap control and edit so let's
first change the name
and this is the master bedroom
done
we'll leave everything else the way it
is to type thermostat description
Honeywell connected to the Amazon app
via the Honeywell app and it's enabled
so that's all good and we'll go back
here let's do it by push button first
lower that a couple degrees and we can
see here that it has successfully
communicated with the thermostat to turn
the temperature down now we'll come out
of this and let's see if we can switch
it back by voice Alexa set the master
bedroom thermostat to 66 degrees and you
can see here she has set the heating
temperature to 66 degrees well now we've
successfully linked this Honeywell Wi-Fi
thermostat with the app on the
customer's phone as well as their Amazon
echo system this is great project now
the homeowner can control the
temperature of all their thermostats in
their house whether they're at home by
voice or use of their phone or away by
use of either app this gives the
homeowner a lot of control and can save
a lot of money in the Las Vegas summers
here if they forget to make a
temperature change before they leave for
school and work each day i'ma leave a
link in the description below for this
Honeywell Wi-Fi enabled thermostat as
well as its current major competitor the
nest thermostat check them both out and
see which one works best for you I'll
also leave a link to the double gang
plate that I use to make up for the gap
left by the removal of the old
thermostat and the tools I use for this
install I would very much like your
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