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

Whole Home Climate Control
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 wiresso 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.

Easy to set-up, great features and superior results
I just sold my home and purchased a new home. I had installed a NEST thermostat in my previous house and liked it so I set out to replace it with another NEST thermostat. Instead I decided to check reviews again and weigh out this decision. Considerations that lead me to purchase the ecobee instead? 1) reviews – these seemed to favor the ecobee although close 2) sensors – my new home has multi levels and I noted the finished basement (serves as a home office for me) was quite bit cooler – I liked the idea that the sensors followed me and determined which rooms were occupied, adjusting the temp for comfort wherever I was 3) Alexa – multi smart systems – I’m heavy into the echo eco system and this thermostat not only supports Alexa it has Alexa built-in! The thermostat works with google, apple home kit, etc… 4) features – the ecobee offers a lot of features that can be modified/adjusted to your liking. I struggled with this a bit because I liked that I didn’t have to do anything with the NEST, it figured it all out on its own based on my history – BUT now I’m actually very impressed with the ecobee as I’m able to adjust the thermostat to my personal circumstances, it’s worked out great and there is minimal interaction required on my part-very simple! Overall, The Ecobee exceeded my expectations. Very pleased with my purchase and the performance of this this thermostat.

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.

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!