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ihatescreennames said:

MplsP said:

First off, dump Alexa. I don’t want or need Jeff Bezos spying on me.

I got an Ecobee thermostat several months ago (without Alexa) and it works great. Good connectivity, more flexibility in installation and great support. I wish I would’ve known about the door sensors before I got the Eve sensors. I’m curious as to how they know someone’s in the room - are they using the motion detection from the thermostat or Bluetooth from your iphone?

My experience with my ecobee thermostats is mixed. I picked up 3 in December, 2 for our primary residence and another for our vacation house.

In our primary house I was having some trouble with the installation of the first thermostat. I contacted ecobee support and they were pretty fast to reply, called me and then had me sending pictures of my installation and pictures of the boards in our furnace. It turned out that the C wire was not connected at the furnace, a pretty easy fix. Their support was great. When I installed the second thermostat it was stuck in a boot loop. Another fairly quick call with ecobee support and they sent me a replacement. So far so good.

I installed the third thermostat at our vacation home and it went off without a hitch, no issues at all and it maybe took 15 minutes to remove the old thermostat and install and setup the new thermostat.

However, at our primary residence I get “no response” messages every day from one or both thermostats. I get “no response” occasionally from some Hue bulbs and from some iDevices things I have (and almost never from Lutron) but with ecobee it’s daily and a little frustrating (typically waiting a minute or two is all it takes to get a response but that isn’t ideal). Meanwhile, the one in our vacation home is ready every single time either of us checks on it, which also is an at least daily occurrence. 

That “no response” is what would make me hesitate. It’s not that big a deal when all I’m trying to do is adjust the temperature but could be a bigger deal if that was happening with a security camera.

We had connectivity issues with ecobee for months. Turned out the problem was with our Linksys mesh wi fi.  We were prompted by Ecobee technical support to create a guest network and connect the thermostat to that wifi. Now it works perfectly. 

jdiamond said:

Guys, I don't have an AppleTV yet, but I was wondering:  Can you set them to use your own photos for rotating wallpaper like you can on the Mac?