Centralite Pearl vs Go-Control Thermostat

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I have 4 of the GoControl GC-TBZ48, but have never owned the Centralite Pearl.

I got the GoControl for a few specific reasons that were important to my specific use case:

  1. Zwave Plus (good for reporting, and since it is Zwave I could easily write my own user driver to get access to additional config paraemters [see #2 below])
  2. Thermostat allows for updating the temperature reading bias/calibration number via zwave. I use this in a user app to control my thermostat off of a remote temperature indication. Basically (thermostat reading - other temperature reading) = bias applied to thermostat. Sometimes I control off of one room's temp, sometimes another room, sometimes an average temperature, etc.
  3. It supports minimum time ON, and minimum time OFF to prevent over cycling of the HVAC equipment. The ZTS thermostat I was using before did NOT have settings for this, and could cycle my unit ON/OFF multiple times PER MINUTE - very bad for the equipment.
  4. Price / availability.
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