What're the advantages of a smart thermostat compared to one that you can have a schedule on? Unless they aren't available without that anymore I haven't shopped for one just thinking of our office one that has a day / night type settings. The one our office has is fairly plain, LCD screen with like 6ish buttons, shows if it's fan, off or heat / AC on. Seems simple enough without needing a smart device.
I can see wanting to use an application to set it would be nice but seems like smart devices aren't worth that comfort.
Hope there's a sea minus minus somewhere for whomever that was.