“If a sensor notices that one room is colder than the rest of the rooms the heat will come on the warm up that room but then don't all of the other rooms get too hot?”
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According to the ecobee manual, when Follow Me is enabled, if motion is detected in the cold room, the temperature reading from that sensor will be used by the ecobee to decide when to operate your heating or cooling system. If more than one sensor detects motion, the average of these sensors will be used. When Follow Me is disabled, the ecobee will continuously use the average temperature readings from all the sensors that you've selected as the desired temperature to control your thermostat.
Sorry, there was a problem. Please try again later.Yes but using the motion detection it can tell which rooms are occupied and focus the temp on that room and it will adjust as you move throughout the house - or you can set it to average out all sensors giving a more accurate temp reading throughout the house. Not meant to create a dual zone type system.
Sorry, there was a problem. Please try again later.There's a few different options with the sensors. In the normal mode it will take an average of all of the sensors, so one room will still be colder and one warmer, but hopefully minimizing the difference. You can also set it to "follow me" mode, where it will only average the sensors that have recently detected motion. But yes, technically the other rooms would get warmer in order to bring the temperature of the colder room up. However, it will average those temperatures so that the cold room isn't 70 and every other room is 75 (if your set point was 70). It would look more like cold room at 68, other rooms at 71-72.
Sorry, there was a problem. Please try again later.The thermostat will average the active sensors to set a target temperature except during sleep mode where it will average all sensors. However, you may choose which sensors participate in certain settings. For example, I have my sleep schedule set to only include bedroom sensors and not downstairs sensors. You can also set up the unit to run the fan more often to equalize the rooms. You may consider using a register fan on the cold room to pull more air to that room. What you don't want to do is close your registers as that could lead to a situation where your furnace over works. Hope that helped.
Sorry, there was a problem. Please try again later.The thermostat will make sure that the average of all sensors throughout the house equals what the thermostat is set at! Our basement tends to be colder than the other 2 levels. Let's say your house is set at 72; the main and top level may read as 73 and the basement may read as 70.
Sorry, there was a problem. Please try again later.you can edit settings to take the average temp of all rooms or only certain rooms. you can also modify settings to ignore rooms during day/night/vacation/etc...
Sorry, there was a problem. Please try again later.Simple answer is yes, if the sensor in the cold room is the only sensor selected for lets say the "sleep" setting, then the whole house will warm up until that sensor reaches the thermostat set point. If you have multiple sensors in different rooms all set for the "sleep" setting, then ecobee will "average" out the temps based on what all the sensors are reading to get as close to the thermostat set point as possible (at least that is how I understand it).
Sorry, there was a problem. Please try again later.The thermostat averages the sensor(s) resdings and adjusts the temperature until the optimum temperature you specify is reached. You can also specify which sensor(s) are included or not.
Sorry, there was a problem. Please try again later.When the rooms have different temperatures, the ecobee's first step is to turn on the fan to circulate air to try to even out the room temperatures. It's pretty smart that way. There is a setting for temperature differences between room you can fiddle with. I haven't found that any of the rooms get too hot. If there is too much temperature variation between rooms you might want to adjust the dampers in your vents (if you have dampers) or in your ducts to adjust the air flow. Or add insulation...
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