Great Stat & Great App – Wi-Fi enabled Radio Thermostat Review

I've had the 3M version of this thermostat (CT50) for the past 3 or 4 years. Generally I've been very happy with the stat functionality and the App features & functionality. PROS: Easy to install/wire, decent stat features, easy to use and program, very functional App and online connection to stat which allow easy access to & remote mirroring of all stat features and functionally, App has been routinely updated with new features and refinements over the years, stat has been updated with new firmware periodically. CONS: Wifi setup a bit cumbersome, every "blue moon" (during network outages/power failures) stat loses network settings and does not reacquire connection, development of product line from this company seems to be at a dead end (as of Nov 2016) with CT50 & CT80 being the only available model for past past few years. No connection to home automation. Set up on my wifi network was a little bit of a pain. The initial wifi set up worked OK but not effortless. However, every so often it loses its connection to my wifi network (FIOS) and does automatically reacquire the connection. The problem is that it doesn't remember the wifi settings-- so you have to reconnect it from scratch using the setup wizards. This wouldn't be too bad if it's default subnet was the same as the wifi access point-- but it's not. I've tried setting up the stat with a static address which matches to a reserved address in my wifi router. But this didn't work to solve the problem.
Review by Ivebeenscrewed on Wi-Fi enabled Radio Thermostat.