ecobee Smart Thermostat Premium with Smart Sensor and Air Quality Monitor - Programmable Wifi Thermostat - Works with Siri, Alexa, Google Assistant

I plan on updating this in 30 days. It’s not totally functional yet and I have not called the company yet and they do publish their number in several places to contact them. The things I didn’t know so far. When the heating and air-conditioning company arrived. I needed a extra heavy duty power line from the unit to the thermostat. The thermostat I had worked off two AA batteries, and did not have enough power to operate the unit so an extra Higher level line had to be placed from the heater air conditioner to the thermostat so when the guy arrived he did not have this part with him. So you need to let them know upfront that you may need a more heavy duty cord to install this. It was installed by the person in probably 90 minutes Even though he worked in the business and had worked with us before they seem to do a few problems and they may not have done with the unit but with the way he installed it into my air-conditioning and heating and finally it works. After it works it works fine. I downloaded the program to my iPad and I can operate it from my iPad. My question is now do I install it to my Alexa or to my home on Siri. If I Install it on Siri it looks like I may need to buy a hub for about $100 to get the signal from the thermostat to my Siri, but I also just purchased an iPhone 14, which indicates that I may not need this. So I’m not answering a lot of your questions here other than the fact, this is not as simple as slapping it into the wall. It does come with two parts that I’m not quite sure yet to do it one looks like a huge lollipop, which I believe is some kind of remote sensor and another one maybe looks like the small pyramid which I believe is the sensor that you put in the fireplace like your bedroom, so that the thermostat has another location in the house . I’ve been working with this on and off now for about 30 days and not having 100% vision or extremely low vision has added to my frustration however, I am planning on calling the company this week and will follow up with hopefully more good news on the bottom. However, I would strongly recommend this to anyone because you can look at it on your iPad and see the exact temperature. You can turn the air conditioning on and off reset the variable which switches from heat the air conditioning with an algorithm so that you’re not going hot, cold, hot cold all the time, but it knows based on outside conditions what things are going on. Sorry this was so long and so many unanswered questions however, I would buy this again in a second without a problem . I hope this review helps you and again it was written with Siri so sorry for any strange words and I do hope to update us in the next week month or so I guess thank you for reading my review. Have a great day and as they say stay cool, I don’t get hot under the collar :-) OK this is my update so far, I paired the unit with my iPad Pro you could not do this if you cannot see, there’s too many touchy things with the screen that you have to move your hand around I was on the phone with Apple assistance for an hour and a half and finally my neighbor stopped over and help me install it in about three minutes, so please don’t try to do this by yourself. I’m continuing down the process and will add on to this again in the future, but to excellent I am happy to have it. I can use it on my phone my iPads, or at the hub unit itself if you buy this you’re simply going to need a little help Have a good day. Thank you for reading my review. I plan on updating this again one more time. OK this will be my last entry. Let me tell you what happened when I called the company as I told you I ended up with two parts one is a sensor. It’s very small and the other piece looked like a lollipop with five wires coming out of it it was very intense after a pretty lengthy phone call I found out the sensor has a tag that you pull out to activate the battery when you do that you will need someone standing at the thermostat to type in where you’re putting that sensor in your house. The most significant thing is the thing that looks like the lollipop with five wires coming out of the bottom of it is something that you attached to your HVAC unit your heating and air-conditioning unit if you have the older wire going to an older style thermostat. The technician should know how to install this and then it transmits the data electronically to your new thermostat. Unfortunately the person who installed my thermostat had no idea what that thing was so where I said earlier in this review that you may need to have them install a more heavy duty wire from the unit to the thermostat that would not be necessary if they use this thing properly however, I would still tell them when you call up the HVAC people that they may need to bring a more heavy duty cable because you have an older style thermostat in case the information I received was incorrect and you have to pay a fortune for them to go back to the shop etc. and get things. Overall, I’m very satisfied with this. There’s a Lotta other things you can hook into it like sensors and cameras and it seems to be an excellent device. I do have as I believe I said earlier the Siri HomePod mini mixed in with it however, when you use the HomePod mini, the wall unit does not talk to you. it only talks to you if you’re using an Alexa-based item I hope this has been an awful lot of information. Hopefully you can use it. I wish I had read this before I started. Thank you be well take care if I should have any problems in the future I will come back in here and edit them and have a great day. Thank you for reading my review . OK this is an additional update. I was not planning for but when you go to install the room sensor, nothing about the directions seem to work from them. Trying to have you figure out which sensor you have instead of giving you a picture of each type of sensor so when you figure out the sensor and you think you have it, it tells you that it has a clear bottom when the bottom looks like a Hershey kiss, but then, when you go to parrot the screen that it says where the location is for the menu, screen is not where the menu screen is located on your screen and you look at the directions and it still doesn’t work then you take the battery out if you can figure out how to do that let it sit outside for two minutes and then put it back in and it still doesn’t work after pulling the tub out of the battery so I’m going to have to wait a month until my niece comes in from out of state because my local person I was trying to use to do the simple task can’t figure it out because it’s not so simple and the directions do not match up with the directions they give you to the device on the wall so now I’m extremely frustrated . I may call the company back next week and talk to them but so far I am not overwhelmed by the people at the company at their support desk at least one person I’ve talk to so far it seems like he’s never done this before or he’s read the manual :-) I’m sure he’s better than that and I’m being critical right now because I’m angry but that’s OK I’ll get this figured out I’m blind and I ever come over. Come out on a daily basis so I should be able to overcome this . OK I’m adding more onto this after I could not install the thermostat. I sent a quasi-obnoxious email to the company and they responded on the next business day which was Monday. They gave me a lot of support and gave me new directions on how to do things and said they would be handling the corrections and told me I could arrange an appointment with them to install the new thermostat thermometer in the house in the litter in the bedroom. So this will still be in the future the other thing that’s funny is this morning when I was walking by the unit all of a sudden started talking to me. I guess it’s been talking to me all the time, but since I have so many other devices around the house, the talk to me it’s been overwhelmed by some other devices, but the thermostat thermometer does talk and answer my questions and it is have Siri inside it, so that’s another positive that offsets a prior complaint I had overall I’m still very happy with it. I just want to get this last sensor put into the house and then I’ll be done and good to go. If you’ve read this far, then you deserve a medal :-) OK first I apologize that this is so long. I had ADT at the house today working on an alarm system and I gave them the directions for installing the room sensor. They said and they are professional and they had a hard time using the most recent set of directions that was sent out on installing the sensor. It seems easy enough but you really have to stop and think and do not throw away that little plastic strip that you pull out of the thing I’ve lost mine in the house and I have no idea where it is. Overall final thought I love this unit. I can lay in bed and turn air-conditioning on and off. I’m sure I’m saving money so that the outside temperature when it drops down but it’s still a little bit warm in the house I can shut off the air conditioner and I have to pay for the cool stuff that the outside is already cool overall most things about this thing are perfect especially as a blind person you don’t have to try to read things you can use your phone or your tablet to control everything and it works great. Overall, I would give this a five out of five. I realize they complained a lot here but I simply think the service people there have never use the product or use it as a blind person or sometimes when you already know the answer, you can use the product and not have an issue but if you’re beta testing head and you’re an analog person in the digital world, sometimes things don’t go so smooth and you get a special reward if you’ve read this far, thank you so much you need to get a life because this has not been the most interesting thing but hopefully my issues will make your issues last and you’ll have a terrific product at the end overall I’d like to thank ecobee for making such a great product but they could work better on their directions to installation stuff. Thank you so much. Have a great day .

This is my second Ecobee thermostat. (I just moved.) Installing it was one of the first things I did.The installation is easy and the instructions are excellent. I bought the top model because it came with a remote sensor and lots of cool features.Things I love:Easy to installGreat lookingPowerful appFlexibility to use sensor (ie.g only the sensor in the bedroom is used when I am asleep.)Voice control (Alexa raise temperature by 2 degrees)Things I don't like:NothingI bought it on Prime day at 20% offYes it's more expensive than other smart thermostats, but it's worth it

Love it! So easy to change the settings. It recognizes when you walk up to it. It's easy to differentiate between the heating and cooling temperatures because the colored ring around the temperature is orange in heat mode, blue in cooling mode. It also tells you what the temperature and weather is like outside. It works with my dual LP forced air and ducted air source heat pump. I also like that you can check on the home temperature from the phone app and make changes if you are away. The numbers are big and easy to read. I like the appearance of the unit also. It also tells you the condition of your furnace filter and reads the humidity inside your home. I'm using just one room monitor as I have a smaller home, these are "tiny" and not obtrusive at all. If you are looking for an upgrade check this brand out.

I'm about a month into using the ecobee Smart Thermostat. This thermostat does everything I wish my Nest had done, with a surprise. Read until the end!You can skip this paragraph if you want to just read about the ecobee thermostat. I'm not new to smart thermostats. My first smart thermostat was a 3M Filtrete. Not a lot of features, but it worked well. I had a Nest several years ago and left it with my previous house when I sold it. Had a Honeywell thermostat for a couple of years, and it was OK, but had some quirks. I thought maybe I'd like the new Nest better and tried one for about 6 months, but hated incompatibilities and a super poor user interface. Plus I wasted over an hour before I searched online and found out that the GOOGLE Nest wasn't compatible with Google Workspace accounts. Go figure. So I'm done with the Nest permanently, thankfully. Rant over. ;)The ecobee has some features that I didn't know I wanted. The remote unit is cool (or warm), and when I'm in the bedroom, it adjusts temperature there to my set program. I'm thinking I'll probably get a couple more occupancy sensors to make this even better as I move around the house.The ecobee app interface is really good, especially compared to the Google/Nest interface. It's very good about respecting settings I put in place, unlike the Nest.The Amazon Echo/Alexa support surprised me. I was expecting a connection to my existing echo devices, which is there, but the ecobee thermostat has a speaker in it and actually functions as an Echo device. I wasn't expecting that, and it works well. I wouldn't recommend it if you were thinking about it for music, but it's nice to have since it's in an area where I didn't have an Echo device.The installation and setup was really easy, though this is my 5th or 6th smart thermostat. One takeaway from my first thermostat installation - cut the power to your furnace/AC before you start installation. I know the instructions say to do that, but on my first installation, I had a really cold night!The big surprise for me was when I went to see what the vacation mode looked like. I was really excited because it had a feature I hadn't expected. On occasion, I'll forget to turn my thermostat to vacation hold right when I leave, but when I went to that section, I found I could actually *schedule* vacation holds! Now, as soon as I book my flights, I can set up a vacation schedule so I don't have to think about it when I'm getting ready to travel. I can set efficiency to happen automatically when I'm going to leave, and set to be comfortable just before I plan to be back. Great feature, and something that I'll definitely use.I highly recommend this thermostat, and even though I've gone through several over the past 10 years, this one feels like the best fit for me so far, and I'm likely to stick with this one for a significant amount of time.