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This post brought to you by Honeywell Wi-Fi Smart Thermostat with Voice Control. All opinions are 100% mine.

Technology these days is just amazing. Honeywell, a global energy efficiency leader with products and technologies in more than 150 million homes, has introduced me to its latest connected home innovation: the Honeywell Wi-Fi Smart Thermostat with Voice Control.  Many of us talk to our phones to deliver commands, but now you can talk to your thermostat to activate and control your home’s temperature! How cool is that?

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The new voice technology allows consumers to simply say, “Hello, thermostat,” to activate and control their home’s temperature. This is a brand new consumer device being released to the market. The Wi-Fi Smart Thermostat with Voice Control utilizes advanced far-field voice-control technology, which breaks through the ambient noise of a busy household (ahem… my screaming children…)  and recognizes commands such as,  “I’m cold”, “make it four degrees warmer” or “make it much cooler”,  even from across the room.

Upon installation, the thermostat immediately recognizes your voice and will adjust the temp. based on your request. This is the first cloud-based voice controlled solution that will get smarter over time, adding more commands based on its interactions with homeowners. In addition, the Wi-Fi Smart Thermostat with Voice Control allows design-focused homeowners to customize it to match or accent their home décor.

The thermostat also allows consumers to regulate their energy usage and home comfort through their smart phone. Homeowners can adjust the thermostat by using the Total Connect Comfort smart phone app – which is the top-rated thermostat app on Google Play™ [http://bit.ly/14jyXP8] or iTunes™ [http://bit.ly/14V3fcH] Honeywell’s Wi-Fi Smart Thermostat with Voice Control will be available beginning November 2013 at a suggested retail price of $349. To learn more about the Wi-Fi Smart Thermostat with Voice Control or to find out where you can purchase it, visit www.wifithermostat.com/voice

Honeywell wants to give one Sand & Sisal reader a $100 Amazon Gift Card!

The holidays are quickly approaching and $100 would help out with some present purchases!

Just answer a question in the comments below for a chance to win. Easy peasy ( And it’d be so sweet to give my sponsor a nice little click on the orange button as a thank you !)

QUESTION: What voice command do you wish the thermostat could fulfill? Pretend it’s your own personal genie! Get creative! 

Kim

All of your comments cracked me up! I loved them all! Thanks for entering!

The winner is (chosen by Random.org) :    Comment Number 21: Chris N! 

Chris N says:
October 1, 2013 at 11:03 am

“Hello Thermostat. Please make dinner, do my dishes and draw me a nice hot bath.”

Congratulations Chris! 

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Comments

  7. ooo! Thermostat, please get up with the children at night so I can remember what sleep is!

  14. Thermostat, please locate……

    my other sneaker
    my keys,
    my Kindle,
    my hammer,
    my teenager…where the heck is he now?
    my husband, he said he would be home an hour ago!

    Yeah, I would have it be my locator..lol

    • Hi Chris!!!
      Congratulations! Your comment was chosen by Random.org as the winning comment for the 100 Amazon Gift Card! Please privately respond and send me your mailing info.
      All my best!
      KIM

  28. Honestly, I would just want it to be JARVIS from the Iron Man series – I would love having Paul Bettany around to take care of the house and talk snarky to me.

  29. I seriously regret not having separate heating/cooling zones in our story and a half house. as the two upstairs bedrooms are seldom comfortable with the thermostat basing all heating and cooling on the lower level temp. Being able to change the setting without having to go all the way downstairs would be great. I’d want to be able to ask the thermostat what the current setting is, what the current temp is and if they are the same, simply ask the thermostat to raise or lower the temp as needed to make the upper level rooms more comfortable.

  34. I wish it could hand out money. HaHa. My honey-do list is long & pricey. That’s what you get w/ a fixer. 🙂

  38. Good evening, Thermostat! Please turn off all noise-making electronics including all audio and video for 30 minutes so I can have a time of peace and quiet before midnight!

  40. Hello Mr. Thermostat. Could you please be so kind to: warm my bathroom up 10 degrees, run a hot bath and play some so ambient music for me. That’s all for now.

  42. Thermostat, please constantly monitor my bedroom so I don’t need to kick out my foot, steal the covers or throw them all on the floor. Thanks!

  49. Hello Thermostat. Please read to the children, tuck them in, lock all the doors, and turn out all the lights. I’m ready for bed!

  64. Haha. There are some good ones already posted. I would say, either make dinner or at least what should I make for dinner.

  65. Please make NJ a comfortable 80 degrees this fall and winter with
    Not more floods or hurricanes. Thank you!

  66. Thermostat, please be my personal trainer and sometimes drill sergeant so I can ditch the gym payments and get in shape at home!

  72. Hello Thermostat! What are the winning lottery numbers and could you please make it cooler in Phoenix for me?

  74. Thermostat: tell me my usuage by date & my new bill. If it’s high, we’ll leave for the day & not use it!! 🙂

  77. Thermostat, Please adjust the temps during the night to cool me off when I’m having a hot flash …

  78. Please!!
    * clean the bathrooms & kitchen (while at it, all rooms)

    * do (and put away) laundry for ALL 6 boys in my house (and change out based on season and growing boys)

    * complete grocery shopping (and put away)

    * block all allergens and dust from coming into house (and vehicle too)

    * update the calendar (and reschedule as needed)

    * update budget as spend (and restrict spending as needed)

    * adjust investments, utilities, etc based on current prices

    * recharge phone as needed (and cameras, computers + any other electronic device)

    * prepare nutritious meals (and have ready at appropriate serving times)

    * reduce energy by running dishwasher, etc during low peak hours

    * balance thermostat for each day’s temperature

    *

  81. Please localize the temperature by the occupants’ desire!

    I tend to be hot,
    my son tends to be cold!

  83. Thermostat, shock my husband if he touches you. (Not so much that you kill him though…I do like him…sometimes!)

  86. Hello, MOPHTG (My Own Personal Honeywell Thermostat Genie), Please make it 70 degrees in my office, 66 degrees in my bedroom, and 72 degrees in the bathroom.

  88. This is a great idea for the elderly. My Mom relies on my nephew to adjust her thermostat and my nephew has gone away to college. Now she relies on my daughter. If she could just tell it when to start and stop and at what temperature, it would be great!

  102. Oh Great and Powerful Thermostat Genie… My first wish is that you bring me a warm fuzzy blanket to cover up with. My second wish is that you bring me a hot cup of coffee. And my third and final wish is you give me a foot massage. 🙂

  103. That my children live a long, love-filled, robustly healthy, fulfilling life.
    That I get to laugh until I hurt while playing with my grandchildren.
    That ALL my family and friends KNOW that they will be fine when I die.

  104. Change my oil in my car, cut my grass, wash my dog, while I sit back and play some video games thank you

  106. Thermostat … Can you go kill that spider for me, I’ll be outside screaming like a girl.

  108. I’d want my thermostat to have the heat at a certain temp, the lights on and dinner cooking in the oven for when I get home in the evening.

  112. My Dear Thermostat,
    Can you also remind my son to put the seat down and my daughter to flush? Those two items would be worth a mint!

  117. Oh I have to go with everyone else. Please vacuum and dust for me!

    Realistically, it would be great to get reminders of things like “time to change the smoke detector batteries” or even if it could tell how efficient the heating/cooling system was working, giving me a heads up that I need to change the air filters.

    What is truly helpful about this thermostat is the fact that when I stumble out of bed because I’m cold and I forget to put on my glasses, I can still adjust the thermostat even though I can’t read it. How nice!

  123. Thermy, it’s “hot” in here — please cool the air. Or, Thermy, it’s cold outside — please warm me up till my baby gets home! All of which only work when the children aren’t around … 🙂

  125. Please tend to the money tree. It’s limbs are too long and bills are falling everywhere

  130. “Thermostat, pleeeeease take care of that dog hair on the stairwell. And fold the laundry, too. Thanks, love!”

  132. Thermostat….please change the weather outside to 20 degrees cooler, so we can really appreciate Fall! It’s currently 88 here…too hot for Fall ;). Thank you

  134. Thermostat….Please give me a gentle, trade wind, air flow and also please scent the air with plumeria. Thank you.

  138. Please have the house spotless, dinner made, laundry done and bills paid when I get home from work.

  140. Thermostat, if you could go to work for me so I can crochet and play with paint and power tools in the garage, that’d be greeaaaatttt….

    *said in best Lumbergh voice*

  141. Thermostat–please locate my crochet hook. I am always forgetting where I put my hook or pattern.

  152. Thermostat, please give me the winning lottery numbers! Oh… and tell me the temperature that would be best to warm up those frogs into a prince charming!

  164. I wish my family members were voice controlled. Some days it’s more like ‘raising your voice controlled’. So uncool, family, so uncool.

    I would love to tell it to do the laundry.

  167. I’ve been searching fruitlessly for good pumpkin donuts in Colorado Springs, so I’d ask for the perfect pumpkin donut…and maybe a glass of red wine 😉

  170. Just keep me at comfortable at night, eg. automatically adjust when I am too warm and dial it back when I am cold.

  171. Thanks Kim for the post and to everyone who contributed! I wish our thermostats could give foot massages too – maybe one day. I can’t say we’ll get to all of these wishes, but we will do our best 😉

    – Zoe @ Honeywell
    Honeywell Blogger Relations

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