I've optimized the default settings for my 2-stage HP. For example, I like no more than 3 CPH for Stage 1 and no more than 2 CPH for stage 2 (to promote long cycles). Those settings transferred over when I changed drivers. There were others that came through as well.
As an addition to this, the WiFi thermostat is branded as "Honeywell T6 Pro Smart thermostat", while the Z-Wave one is just "Honeywell T6 Pro thermostat". The non-connected one is just "Honeywell T6 Pro Programmable thermostat". I'd love to meet the marketing genius who came up with that ....
Ok.. This was anti-climatic .. I got my sensor and hooked it up.. enabled the outdoor sensor in settings.. and nothing happens.. Nothing on the screen and nothing sent from the device...
Looking at the documentation, including spec sheets and sell sheets, I think their docs are just poorly written. (Giving them the benefit of the doubt.)
It appears that the T6 only accepts an outdoor sensor for the purpose of controlling a dual-fuel (e.g heat pump and gas furnace) system. It uses outdoor temp in the stat to lock out the heat pump and engage the furnace (commonly called a fossil fuel kit when it’s a separate module in the furnace.)
Note that you can use a sensor indoors to supplement your stat. It doesn’t appear that you can display that temperature separately, either, but you can choose either the sensor, the stat, or an average of the two.
As the Amazon answer said, you can use (and display separately) an outdoor with the 8000-series models. And they do make a 8000-series stat with Z Wave. I don’t know anything about it other than it’s not nearly as elegant looking as the T6. Whether it has the features you need or not (including outdoor temp display for the ZW model) is a different matter altogether.
Nice.. my second T6 got delivered today.. I really like the clean and intuitive UI of this device.. And the status reporting to the driver has been spot on and instant.. I had to do some workarounds to some buggy reporting from the gocontrol thermostats I have...
Yup, I like it too. I would have purchased the Honeywell over the GoControl if they had a wider temperature sensor calibration range. -3..3 doesn't cut it for how I use that parameter.