The Difference Between Total Connect Comfort and Total Connect 2.0

Hey, DIYers. I'm Jorge from Alarm Grid. Today I'm going to be going over the difference between Total Connect Comfort, TCC, and Total Connect 2.0 TC 2.0. So just quick broad overview what each one is. Total Connect Comfort is an app that allows you to basically control your Honeywell Wi-Fi thermostats through the app. Now they have to be Wi-Fi thermostats and they have to be Honeywell in order to use the Honeywell App Total Connect Comfort . If you have a Honeywell or residual alarm system, that is what you use Total Connect 2.0 servers with. Now the alarm system does have to have internet or cellular connection going to it in order to get this Total Connect 2.0 servers for it. And the Total Connect 2.0 app allows you to arm and disarm, set up email and text message alerts whenever there's an alarm, look at video cameras that are tied into the alarm ecosystem control, and create Z-wave scenes for the Z-Wave devices such as lights, locks, Z-Wave thermostats, not Wi-Fi. There's a difference between Z-Wave thermostats and Wi-Fi thermostats. And that's kind of like the brief overview between both apps. One is just for Wi-Fi thermostats, the other one is for your whole alarm ecosystem. And what I want to show you guys right now just because it's pretty confusing when you guys are in the app store is what each app kind of looks like. Right? So if you go ahead and get your tablet, your iPhone, your computer, whatever it is you're going to be downloading the app on, just open up the app store. All right. Once you open up your app store, you're going to go ahead and search for either or. Let's start with Total Connect Comfort . So I'm going to type in Total Connect . Now as you see here, as I start typing it in, I start getting suggestions. I'm just going to go ahead and hit Total Connect Comfort. Now once I hit Total Connect Comfort is going to basically bring up every single Honeywell or residual app there is. As you see Total Connect 2.0 is also on there. But I'm going to hit the Total Connect Comfort right now. They kind of look like the same logo, the only difference you're going to see is Total Connect 2.0 has a red and white TC logo. Total Connect Comfort has like a thermometer 72 number on it. It kind of has like a temperature number in red and white. Right? So I'm going to hit Total Connect Comfort just so you guys have an idea of what it looks like. So when you guys have your Wi-Fi thermostats, you will actually be able to use this application and you can control your thermostats and here are just a couple of pictures that they've taken from the actual app to show you guys. You can look at the five day forecast, you can set the temperatures, higher it, lower it, put it on auto. Whatever features you guys have on that thermostat will show up on the Total Connect Comfort. If you look at what it offers, it has a whole list. And again this is just for the Wi-Fi thermostats. Now if I hit the back icon to go to my search and I go to Total Connect 2.0, I already have the app, so it's telling me if I want to update it. But here's a couple of screenshots with the app. All right. You have the alarm system, arm away, arm stay, you have the Z-Wave devices, you can control the living room lights, the front door lock, you see there on the first floor has a temperature as well and that's if you have access to a Z-Wave thermostat. And then you have all the events and everything. So the actual Total Connect 2.0 is to interact with the alarm system and any devices hooked into the alarm system. So those are the two apps. Now one important thing you guys may be asking why I have Total Connect Comfort thermostats and I have a Honeywell residual alarm system with Total Connect 2.0 service. There is a way where you can bring in your Total Connect Comfort thermostats into Total Connect 2.0. But one important little thing this does not mean that you can create scenes with the thermostats, that were brought in from your TCC accounts. The only benefit of bringing in the thermostats from the TCC, Total Connect Comfort account, is the fact that you'll be able to control the thermostats and the alarm system from one app from one convenient location. All right. You cannot create scenes with a Wi-Fi thermostat. The scenes on Total connect 2.0 can only be created with Z-Wave thermostats. So that's something that you guys want to do and you guys haven't purchased a whole bunch of equipment yet. Whenever you're designing your house alarm system and Z-Wave devices, make sure that you guys are using Z-Wave thermostats if you want to be able to control and create scenes everything from one location. If you guys have any questions about Total Connect 2.0 or Total Connect Comfort, feel free to send us an email to support@alarmgrid.com. If you find the video helpful, make sure you hit like underneath, subscribe to the YouTube channel, and enable notifications so when we upload new content you guys get notified. I'm Jorge, and I'll see you guys next time.