ecobee SmartThermostat with Voice Control - Programmable Wifi Thermostat - Works with Siri, Alexa, Google Assistant - Smart Thermostat for Home

In my opinion this is a great thermostat. I chose the EcoBee because of the Smart Sensors. My house has a bunch of rooms with a central thermostat. As a result, the temperature between rooms would vary greatly. The sensors seemed like a solution to a problem that has bugged me for years. The thermostat uses the average of the temperatures reported by the sensors to determine when to cool or heat. Once the sensors were placed around the house, it took about a day for all of the rooms to get cooled down and settle into a stable climate through the whole house. Before the EcoBee there was as much as a 7-9 degree difference between the coolest rooms and the warmest rooms in my home. Now, there is a difference of only a couple of degrees between all of the rooms, as one would expect due to the averaging being used. When a sensor detects someone in a room, that sensor gets more weight in the temperature average while unoccupied rooms get less weight on the average. This means that cooling priority is given to occupied rooms. You can setup multiple "comfort settings" (e.g. Sleep, Home, Away) which define a set of desired heating and cooling temperatures, then create a schedule for when each comfort setting is used. You can also specify which sensors are active in each comfort setting. The iOS mobile app is easy to use and intuitive. You can control the thermostat while away from home in the app. The EcoBee supports GeoFencing so that you can have the termostat turn on when you enter a fence that you can define. You also can control the thermostat using HomeKit. The thermostat can be used in Scenes and Automations. With an 4th Gen+ Apple TV, an iPad, or Homepod you can use HomeKit to control the system while away. The thermostat needs a stable 2.4 Ghz wi-fi connection. If you have spotty wi-fi ensure that your thermostat location has good 2.4 Ghz signal. I have excellent wi-fi coverage in my home and the EcoBee has been rock solid with no drop outs or disconnects. The thermostat has features like minimum fan run time, manual adjustment and hold. Install is easy using the included instructions. Included in the box are labels to tag your thermostat wires so you know what each one is for when you start connecting the EcoBee. There are some nuances to moving from an old thermostat to a modern thermostat (wires that you can abandon, jumpers that you don't need with new thermostats, etc) so I cannot emphasize enough how important it is to read and follow the included instructions. The sensor pairing process is easy. It does take some time for the sensor to pair sometimes, just be patient. Bottom line, my wife has said that she feels a difference and thinks that the whole house is more comfortable. She notices a difference in rooms that used to be warm or stuffy. The room sensors are the real winner with the EcoBee in my opinion. They make a huge difference. Highly recommend this thermostat.

I absolutely love the new ecobee SmartThermostat. Full disclosure: I beta tested this product and because of this I thoroughly tested a great number of features. Also, I have a geothermal HVAC system (ground-source heat pump) and I was looking for any issues in controlling this type of system. The thermostat was excellent. It delivered better performance both in cold and hot months than my old model. It is very responsive and intuitive to use. It also has the new eco+ feature which can save you even more money than ever. My kids love the Alexa integration for asking her random questions or about the weather. The unit was extremely easy to install and looks fantastic with the new glass front. The new SmartSensors are a nice upgrade from the older style. They are easier to connect, more accurate, more responsive, and look really cool. By far, my favorite feature of ecobee products is the ability to view my data and savings report. I can see exactly how long the system runs, which cooling or heating stages it used, the temperature inside, and the outdoor temperature. Through this great feature I was able to figure out that I seemed to be losing heat too quickly in one part of the house...turned out there was a significant gap in my Insulation that was missed during the house inspection. This alone will literally save me thousands over the time I own the home. Lastly, ecobee has a great customer service and products team. They really care about their customers and are always happy to help with any issues. If you want a great product, definitely give this thermostat a try!

This is a fantastic product that requires some thought and work on initial setup (and may require some adjustments for a while at the start.) The payoff however is very rewarding and works slick. It does NOT require advanced technical knowlege but techies will probably enjoy setup much more. Installation advice: After opening the product and breezing through the instructions I downloaded the app and discovered that it had a very well made setup process directly through the app. I tore my old thermostat off the wall, connected all the wires, tried to trun on the device and no lights, nothing. After panicking for a bit i went to my heater and discovered that while i had a blue 'c' wire on my thermostat end it hadn't been hooked up on my heater. After attatching it i had no further wiring issues. Pros: Easy to set up home/away/sleep temperature ranges and then schedule your week out. Smart presence sensors to make schedule diviance a non-issue. Saves a history of temperatures, humidity, and run cycle. Warns the user if the temperature falls outside of acceptable ranges. Alexa feature is handy and easy to set up. Well thought out and atractive user interface. Oddities: The app interface and that on the thermostat are very similar. What took me a while to realize (having set up most of the software with the app) was that there are features on the ecobee menu that are not available or accessable in the app. There is a third party app called beestat that offers a superior method to see your data that i highly recommend otherwise you MUST go to their website. The ecobee app does not show any of your user data. Additionally, i had issues with the ecobee holding away or home idenfinitely until i turned the smart presence features on. I purchased this thermostat so that I could monitor the temperature in my house while I was visiting family over Christmas. I live in a cool climate and with this i don't have to worry as much about my pipes freezing

works as expected except tha Alexa in Australia doesn't have the skill to connect to ecobee. however works great with Google Home tho. Installation is easy. The hardest part is get up to the roof and run a new cable throught the well as the old controller only have 2 wires and no C wire. my old Brivis wombat 92 doesn't have fan only option, with a G wire connected, now I have the fan only optin, but the way to turn it on and off is not so obivous from the meun setup tho.

Ecobee did a great job with this one. It’s easy to use, installs easily and looks great. I’ve used both nest and ecobee and I prefer ecobee. Room sensors are key.

Wifi feature is great, can be checked from anywhere in the world. Programming is also good and easy to program. Technical support is also very good.

I really like this thermostat! We upgraded our thermostat after we got an alexa and wanted to be able to control the temperature from our phones/ with voice commands. The ecobee skill isn't available in Australia yet but you can use the Smart Things will with it and it'll work just fine. I'm enjoying the feature where the thermostat will learn by itself when your home or not and overwrite your pre set times, so if we have a sleep in or go out and forget to turn it off, the ecobee will turn itself to the sleep or away mode. Not sure yet if this function will save us any money on the gas bill but it's quite interesting. I also like how it looks, no idea why so many people find it ugly!

Great product easy to use and works well.