Honeywell Total Connect Comfort web site, displaying its -Register Device- page.
Shows how to control Honeywell thermostat with Google Home. So here’s how we set up the connection between Google Home and the thermostat to enable such controlling. Not too hard, although there are a few steps to run. No fear though, because we list all of them below.
So to start, you’ll need a TCC account. If you don’t already have one, head on over to the Honeywell portal website here, and create one. But be sure to save your user Id and password. Indeed you will need these when configuring the Honeywell TCC in the Google Home app.
Now we own the Honeywell RTH9580WF WiFi thermostat. Had it for a few years now. Thus we already have an account at the TCC website. So we won’t go into how to do that here. Why? Because creating an account there is easy to do by following the instructions at that site.
Furthermore, the Google Home app is available in the App Store or Google Play. So you probably already have this if you’ve set up a Google Home before.
We also assume that you installed your Google Home speaker. Here, we use the first Google Home speaker for this demo.
We have the Honeywell RTH9580WF WiFi thermostat set up on our TCC account. We installed it, powered it up, linked to our home WiFi network, and added to our Honeywell TCC account. Please see our Register Honeywell WiFi Thermostat RTH9580WF Online post. This gives instructions on connecting Honeywell thermostats to the internet.
We use an iPad Air computer tablet in this demo. So we find this app on page four of our iPad’s Home screen. But yours may appear in a different spot, depending on how you arrange your pages.
Then when you run this app, the Google app Home screen appears. It shows a list of your Home devices currently active on your Google account.
So find this control at at the bottom of the Home screen. It is near the right side corner.
Then touching the Main Menu option brings up the Main Menu page. This is where you can control home group members, set up multi room groups, and, access device settings.
Then find Settings near the left edge of the screen. It is near the center, a little above center, on the Main Menu page.
You then should get the Settings screen. So this page presents a list of your speakers and other linked devices. It also gives you the option to control a device. However, you currently can’t get to the option we’re after unless you scroll down the page a bit.
So, swipe up to scroll down this page until you see the Add item, as shown next.
Touching the Control Device, Speaker, Group, Service option then brings up the Add page. Here’s where you create a speaker group.
Locate the Set Up Device option near the left edge of the screen. It’s currently the first menu item, near the top.
Touching Set Up Device brings up the Set Up page. So here, you pick what sort of device to set up. Now you can choose to set up a native Google Home device (speaker, Chromecast, Etc.). Or set up a device that works with Google, like a Honeywell Total Control Comfort thermostat.
This then brings up the Control Devices list page, as shown next. This screen lists all the device brands that Google Home currently can access and control.
So swipe up to scroll down the Control Devices list, until you see the Honeywell Total Connect Comfort items. Note that there are two versions of this ability. One for users in the USA and the other is for international users.
In this demo, since, we live in the United States, we tap the red Honeywell Total Connect Comfort US item.
The app then displays the Total Connect Comfort log In screen. So it is prompting you for your TCC account login Id and password.
Then enter the email address and password you created your Honeywell TCC account with, in the spaces provided.
So we assume here that you enter the user Id and password for a valid Honeywell TCC account. If you did, then the TCC End User License Agreement page then appears.
You should then see the Select the Following Thermostat page display , as shown next.
Tapping OK on the Select the Following Thermostat page then brings up the Choose Device page. So here we have a single entry, which is the thermostat we want.
Then, tap the thermostat shown that you want to control by tapping it.
The little circle then fills in with a blue check mark.
Then tapping Next takes you to the Choose a Home page. Furthermore, the Google Home app groups devices into virtual collections called homes. So these allow you to access various devices in each home grouping. This also makes it easier to find them when you have multiple device groups. Then this means that you can control smart devices at multiple locations. That is so long as you create a separate home for each place that has devices to control.
Now we created only one home in our account currently. Furthermore, we do not need another. So we won’t run through how to do that here. If you have two or more homes set up, you would choose which one to put the thermostat in.
In this demo though, since it’s the only one, the app selects this group by default. So we can just move on to the next step.
Activating the Next link then takes you to the Where is this Device? page.
So here is where you get to say in which room or area of your home you’ve installed the thermostat. Indeed they give several pre-defined choices on this screen. Furthermore you can create your own room name if you scroll down this page. There, they give you the option to create a custom room name.
For us though, since our Honeywell thermostat is in the kitchen, we just tapped Kitchen, as shown next.
Tapping Next takes us back to the Home screen. Note that now, your thermostat should show up in your the device list there. But remember that the first time we saw the Home page above, no thermostat appeared. However now, since adding it was successful, it does show.
Finally, you can see if the Google Home app can now read your thermostat temperature. So to do that, tap its entry icon on the Home page.
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