Total Connect 2.0 4+

The alarm system and app basically get four stars but I have to, for my own peace of mind, give the overall rating of just one star. Nothing ticks me off more than designed incompatibility and unreasonably high prices. I have two Ring doorbells and a number of other cameras both inside and outside of the house. there is no reason, with the exception of a Honeywell wanting to sell over priced cameras, that compatibility with other video cameras couldn’t be built in to the Lynx Touch, especially compatibility with the Ring doorbell system. Ring is the undisputed leader in video doorbells and will always be better than any such system that Honeywell would make available. for those of us who have already invested in video security system and now have Honeywell, please don’t think that we’re all going to drop our current system I have cameras to take advantage of the additional features of the Lynx Touch. incidentally, I just upgraded from a Honeywell lynx plus system that I had installed over 11 years ago, and have been buying video security cameras since long before the Lynx touch was released.

I had this system installed in my home a couple years ago. We have two tuxedo touch keypad’s, thermostat, 4 cameras, and automated front door deadbolt, water sensors connected to my sump pumps. We have a bunch of lights and outlets connected to the system through Z wave technology. I’ve never seen a better system out there that doesn’t rely on your Wi-Fi is this is using a cellular radio so even when all the power goes out in the area our home and still protected unlike some of these do it yourself Systems you see on TV. I would recommend this to anybody because it’s amazing even the garage doors connected to it. We have what’s called a seen set up called going to bed that we click one button and it will go and close the garage door if it isn’t already, lock the front door, shut off a bunch of the lights including the outdoor lights, lower the temperature on the thermostat and armoire system. You cannot get all those features in one app with these do it yourself commercials we see so if anybody wants a real security system that is really going to work in the event of an emergency I would go with this one. Even all of the smoke detectors and carbon monoxide detectors in the home are connected to it so I know when the middle of the night if something happens emergency help is on the way and all four of my kids and my wife are protected.

From 2021: still terrible. The same problems with functionality persist two years after my first review. Now even worse. The programmed events do not work. I have programmed a Monday through Friday open/close schedule. Every Wednesday at 1pm the system moves the temperature to the “off” hours temperature so into he winter we get cold and the summer we are burning up and have to go manually adjust the thermostats. Most days the program does. It turn on in the mornings. In the summer not a big deal, the AC catches up fast, but in the winter, my business is cold for two hours if I do not remember to raise the heat from the app while I’m still at home. My contractor that installed the product has been unable to figure out the problem. Totally unacceptable. I am building a second office and have instructed the contractor that we will not be using this product!

From 2018:
I have used this app for over a year and a half for my business. When controlling the HVAC it won’t accept a change in temp or fan setting on the first try. It has always required a second change before actually updating. The scheduling options are limited and time consuming to edit. The “circ” setting on the compatible wall mount control panel is not available in the programming options. I thought there would be an update to address this but still having the same issues I’ve had since day 1.