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hi I'm Megan Walton for Sina and today I'm gonna show you how to install this Honeywell Wi-Fi smart thermostat I'll assume that you've already gone to your circuit breaker and turned off your AC and that you've removed your old thermostat so these are the wires I have behind my old thermostat this is the Y wire this is the W this one's the G and this one's the RH the thing about this Honeywell thermostat is that it needs a CE wire to operate optimally I don't have a CE wire so that's a bit of a problem for me there are some workarounds that you can use if you have access to your HVAC unit but unfortunately my HVAC unit is really old and doesn't actually have a terminal port if you don't have the CE wire a really easy workaround is this power cord that Honeywell provides but it's not ideal because it's a big power cord there are some other ways around this without using the power cord but you might need to get an electrician to help so the next thing you want to do is put on the wall plate once your wall plate is screwed on and level you're ready to put the wires into their ports the RH wire doubles as the our wire so I'm gonna put the RH wire into the our port tug on it to make sure that it's in the right way then we match the other wires to their respective terminals if you have to see wire you'd be done with the wiring portion but since I have this cord I'm gonna put these into the sea and the RC ports the next step is to push all the wires back into the wall and then you're ready to add the base plate now that the faceplate is on you're ready to plug it in and turn the air conditioning back on once you get everything set up it should power up and then it'll ask you a couple questions language thermostat installed for home or business name of your thermostat if you're using it for cooling or heating these are important questions you need to be able to answer correctly to get this set up the right way I'm Meghan Malaysian for CNET and this is the Honeywell Wi-Fi smart thermostat