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xp17 said:

No, I don't need windows tablet. LOL

sirozha said:

davgreg said:

I have an ecobee 4 which I got for free from Entergy- my electric utility. I am quite sure other utilities offer a similar program. It is not income qualified- all you have to do is consent to the monitoring and rare dial back of your cooling. Also in the deal is a year of prepaid service contract for the HVAC system to include a complete system cleaning. They also throw in a small cash rebate on your bill each December. You can leave the program at any time- they pay for the installation but if you drop out of the program it is on you. If you live in the parts of Louisiana, Texas, Mississippi or Arkansas served by Entergy this should be available to you.

They have a program where you give them permission to monitor your power consumption after coming in and analyzing your system and home for efficiency. They also have permission to override your settings remotely during peak load events and you do have the ability to opt out. Last summer they ran programmed dial-backs maybe a half dozen times for a few afternoon hours. My normal setting is 73 in the summer and they pushed it back to 76. Every time the dial-back ended at 4 PM so your house would be back to normal by the time most come home from work or school.

I have had mine for over a year now and have had no problem from either the main unit or the satellites. The iOS apps allow you easy control of your HVAC. There is also web access for your Mac or other computer. The data available shows your home relative to the community, neighborhood and everyone else.

Never have used the Alexa, but I do use the HomeKit capability. The 3rd party Home app available in the app store is better than Apples.

Letting an electric company control the temperature in your house is NUTS. If they can control the temps in your house, they can see occupancy. 

If they get hacked, they can switch your thermostat to heat in summer and bring the temps to over 100F inside. What if you have pets? What if you have elderly living with you? 

I was offered such a deal, and I refused. I also wrote ecobee to tell them what a horrible idea that is. 

Having Alexa that sends audio to Amazon from your hose is bad enough, but having the electric company control the temps in your house is straight from the Big Brother playbook.  

StrangeDays said:

rogifan_new said:

Is there a reason it doesn’t have an A11 or A12 chip?

Probably. 

(what do you expect for an answer? nobody here works in Apple engineering)