“I installed an ecobee 4 w/Alexa. It came w/one sensor that works well for our bdrm. I'm going to buy more due to hot spots. The house we just bought has a brand new low-end single zone HVAC. What's the best control I can expect with a single zone system?”
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With the ecobee and more sensors, your house can be more "Balanced", but don't expect each room to be perfect. You can set it up to use any individual or group of sensors and will take some time to find the proper setting. Whatever you do, the area where the actual thermostat is located may be hotter or colder depending on the settings. Be patient and it'll work out. For instance, we have a thermostat IN a bedroom upstairs. That's where the builder put it. If that room's door is closed, the rest of the upstairs is hot, or cold depending on the season. We placed the sensors in each of the bedrooms and read what their temps were before tweaking. The bedroom where the thermostat is located can be ignored and the rest of the rooms sensored. In the summer, that room is COLD and the other rooms really warm or hot, so now we add that sensor into the mix and the ecobee finds a temp that averages all the sensors. So that room is cooler than the others, and the other rooms are comfortable, which is better than the 78 degrees. It took time to find the balance, but it's great now. No more sweaty or shivering nights.
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Sorry, there was a problem. Please try again later.If you add the sensors, your system will heat or cool your house to an average of the temperature reported by all your sensors, including the thermostat. You can add or remove sensors from the sensor cluster in the different settings of the thermostat. For example, if you don't want the basement sensor to be included in the temperature average, you remove it from that comfort setting using the app or the menu on the thermostat. You can still look at the temperature it reports, but it won't be included in the average. I have found having three upstairs in addition to the thermostat works well for me. I don't include my basement in the calculations because it's always 8 or more degrees cooler than the upstairs, so the house would get overheated if it was part of the average. I like them, if that matters. :^)
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