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Whichever type you are, consider this a long-term investment: with Nest’s claimed 10% to 12% savings on heating bills or Hive’s projection of saving up to £130 per year, the average family home will recoup the investment in about two years, and with energy costs only likely to go upwards in the foreseeable future, a 10% annual saving will add up quite significantly over time.

There are also rental/leasing type arrangements for smart thermostats, but it’s hard to see why you’d want that. Obviously, it greatly reduces upfront costs, but you’ll inevitably end up paying more in the long term.

If you don’t already own a Lyric security system but are interested in purchasing one now that it’s supported by HomeKit, you can find a professional retailer and installer in your area by visiting Honeywell’s Lyric page here.

Serviceability features: Simplified servicing with Charge Assurance™. A touchscreen provides a readout of system condition as well as head pressure and suction pressure while calculating superheat and subcooling. A swing-open electrical box provides corner access to unit interior. The Wi-Fi Hx3 thermostat supports a service app for remote service and monitoring.

There’s no doubt about it. Nest is smarter, but that doesn’t necessarily mean that it’s the right option for you. It’s smarter because it learns your habits and, after a week or two, it begins to understand your routines. It knows that you want your house to be warm at 7am when you get out of bed and it knows that you’ll be gone by 9am, so maybe to stop heating the house about 8.30am.

While Nest is 3.2-inch in diameter and 1.3 inches thick, the Lyric is a flat 3 inches across and 0.3 inches thinner. Both have lovely looking, well thought-out displays, selector wheels, menu systems and a stainless steel case. The bottom line is that both companies have smart heating ecosystems that are going to look nice on your walls.

It also knows what the weather was like outside when you made that decision to turn it up or down. So, as the seasons start to change, it gets the idea when to shift the regime all by itself. You can argue about whether being this smart is important or not – and we will in a moment – but it’s certainly more intelligent than what Honeywell has on offer.

Thermostat compatibility: Requires a special thermostat. Compatible only with wired Xk41 and Xb76 thermostats.

Using a multiroom system can save you more money than using a single thermostat, as you only heat the rooms that you need. To further cut costs, Wiser has a couple of additional modes.

“A properly designed radiant floor system can operate at a lower supply water temperature than radiators or baseboard, which is a better match for condensing boilers as well as renewable energy sources, such as solar thermal or geothermal,” he said. “Also, architects, designers, and owners prefer radiant floor heat because there are no visible heat emitters.”

The reality is more complicated. For industrial-scale burning – in power plants such as Drax in North Yorkshire, for example – burning wood pellets shipped in from the US was found to be worse for the climate than coal.

Invest in a smart thermostat and say goodbye to those problems. Today’s connected heating systems use smart scheduling to make sure your home is at its ideal temperature when you want it – and many of them can even control different rooms individually, so you can ensure the heat is directed where it’s needed.