Honeywell’s Lyric is a twist on connected devices

Honeywell Lyric Thermostat

From TechHive:

The Lyric thermostat assumes that if your smartphone is at your house, so are you. You can register your family’s phones with the app, and it’ll use the geofencing features in iOS and Android to tell when everybody’s left for the day. Once you get within a few miles of your house, the thermostat springs back to life, heating or cooling your house so it’s at your preferred temperature (or at least getting there) as you stroll through the door.

Is anyone else looking for an alternative to the Nest thermostat?