Honeywell Home T5 Smart Thermostat vs Sensi Touch smart thermostat

Sensi Touch smart thermostat, with a colour touchscreen, humidity sensing, Apple HomeKit, Google Home, Alexa, SmartThings and Home Assistant support, and a 3 year warranty. Honeywell Home T5 Smart Thermostat wins on price, temperature alerts and its system health monitor.

Sensi Touch smart thermostat has a 4.3 inch colour touchscreen, while Honeywell Home T5 Smart Thermostat has a larger 4.95 inch monochrome touchscreen that reads well from across a room. Neither shows weather, and both display temperature and time.

Sensi Touch smart thermostat measures temperature and humidity. Honeywell Home T5 Smart Thermostat measures temperature only, though it does send temperature alerts and monitors HVAC health with filter reminders, which the Sensi does not.

Both target DIY. Sensi Touch smart thermostat is praised for its guided wiring setup in the app and needs no batteries. Honeywell Home T5 Smart Thermostat uses the UWP mounting system, so replacing an older Honeywell is often a matter of popping one off and the other on, though a C wire is required.

No. Neither accepts external temperature sensors, neither detects occupancy and neither supports Matter or Thread. Both are limited to 2.4 GHz Wi-Fi, which some owners find fiddly to pair on modern mesh networks.

Buyers who want the lowest price with a large touchscreen, geofenced Auto Home and Away, energy reports and HVAC maintenance alerts. If a colour screen, humidity readings, SmartThings or Home Assistant and a 3 year warranty matter more, Sensi Touch smart thermostat is the better buy.