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Rated 5 out of 5 stars
Great Thermostat
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Posted . Owned for 3 weeks when reviewed.
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Easy to program and very user friendly. Looks good on the wall also.
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At this point I cannot recommend this thermostat. It is missing a lot of functionality that is needed for present day HVAC systems, such as not having enough wire slots for heat pump systems that also have a dehumidifier. It also does not maintain set temperatures and constantly overrides settings. For the same amount of money invest in a Nest thermostat. Maybe in a few years it will be worth the cost after it has been further developed.
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This Ecobee thermostat is a really nice add on to my wall. It looks good, is highly functional and saves me energy too!
It was not an easy install on my system though. Normally, I would usually be able to install this myself. I had to hire a professional to have it installed because it requires a 24V wire. My previous thermostat only has 4 wires and does not include a C wire, so the professional had to find a way to power it up. So just a word of advice, make sure you know your system so you know what to expect on installation.
After it was installed though, everything was easy. It is big but it looks nice and elegant on the wall. It is like a décor upgrade. The design looks sleek and the screen is full color. It is easy to know what setting it is from a 15 foot distance, and this is coming from a guy who has near sighted astigmatism.
I have my whole home set up with IOT. This thermostat was easily detected by my Google home system so it was easy to incorporate it in my current home automation setup. Although my home system is set up to know my schedule, where I am at and can trigger device actions, this EcoBee thermostat’s system is a standalone as well. I can set up schedule, and geofencing as well, so it can set my home temp based on my lifestyle even WITHOUT a home system. So app features are great—and my pro installer also showed me, how good it is that I can actually do wire configurations and troubleshooting in the thermostat itself so I can do the tweaks even without him around. The thermostat is a complete system in itself.
The thermostat did ask me about what energy provider I was using and what time of use I have on my bill—only to learn that I can compare my consumption with others, which is really helpful in terms of saving energy (or maybe peer-pressured into making sure I don’t keep the AC endlessly running wastefully). Maybe my only complaint is that the screen is not as quickly responsive to touch—maybe because with this nice screen, I got used to my phone that does things so fast—but yes, I am reminded that it is a thermostat, not a phone.
The best thing about this thermostat is the way it makes me feel responsible for my consumption. There is so much focus on saving energy (vs. just the usability and advantages of having an automatic temperature controller)—that to me is the real win, when I know I have something that promotes being conscientious. It is not just good for my home, it is good for everyone else's too.
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Apart from its design and display, the other big feature added to the Ecobee is an air-quality monitor. Just above the temperature is a small icon that gives you an overall look at your air quality; tap on it, and you get a more detailed look at both VOCs and CO2 levels. You don’t get specific particulate counts, just a scale from Clean to High, along with suggested actions, such as opening a window.