ecobee4 Smart Thermostat

I just moved into a house built in the 90s that had a completely ancient thermostat. Honestly, I could not even figure out how to use it, it was just so archaic! I bought this and had a professional install it, so I can't comment on the installation process, but I can say that it didn't take the guy I hired too long to do it, and I didn't hear any groaning or swearing, so I'm guessing it was pretty easy as long as you know what you're doing! :-) The interface is very intuitive and easy to figure out, and setting up the app on my phone was a breeze -- the Ecobee unit basically walks you through it.Features: I can set the temperature I want it to cool my house down to, the temp I want it to heat my house up to, and I can set it to auto (it will heat or cool as necessary) or I can specially just tell it to cool or to heat. There are settings for vacation mode. But really the best for me is the app! If I'm away from the house, I can check on what the temp is and I can turn the heat or A/C on while I'm away -- say, 1 hour before I'm about to arrive home, so my house is at my desired temp when I arrive! Also, if I'm in my back room and feeling too lazy to walk to the center of the house where the thermostat is, I just whip out my phone, open the app, and turn the A/C on or off (whatever I am looking to do) without having to get off the couch! Ah, modern technology is awesome! :-)I did not integrate it with Alexa as I don't have Alexa, and I did not use the remote sensor so I cannot comment on that, though that does seem like a handy little extra!

My house was built in the 60s, the HVAC is about 20 years old...I bought this to help maintain better temperature in the home and better regulate the older system...It works fantastic.It comes with the adapter to hook up an older system... it plugs in just right, super easy...And it maintains the temperature in our home much better...We get 2 total sensors in the package (the thermostat has a built-in one) and the extra one... and we bought 2 more of the Room Sensors (updated) and they link up to the system just fine.I recommend between 3 and 4 total sensors, on each floor, to give the system the best chance of working properly with this system.It is saving me money, nearly paying for the thermostat and sensors... by the end of summer, it will have paid for itself. That is a bonus, because next year, it will save me money.Alexa integration works flawlessly...

Would have been easy had we not blown a fuse in our ac handler which we didn't know we had. The tech was great, very knowlegeable and patient and didn't rush us at all. We have had one of these as well as a Nest. This one is easier to use. We live in AZ so it is great when we can have different schedules for vacation and for peak use time. And when we are ready to come home we can decide to change the temp early if we want. Saves us money and time. Can create your own schedules and add them to any day you want. Can copy schedule from one day to another.

Thermostat itself works great, full of features I'll never use. The remote sensor refuses to connect. Thermostat will repeatedly ask to connect and it will spin and try to sync and then fail, then find the sensor again, over and over. Tried all the online suggestions and rebooting both, nothing works.

So we’ve had this thermostat for a while now. I placed the sensors on the furthest ends of the house, one being my teenage daughter’s room that had a separate thermostat because it was an addition. Now this sensor has been in her room for some time now but the last few weeks she’s been telling us to turn down the heat because it gets really hot at night. I got a notification from ecobee last night to check my unit because the thermostat was reading below 60. I checked my app and sure enough the sensor was reading 37 degrees so the heat was cranked in that part of the house. I thought maybe the batteries or something with the sensor was glitching so I unpaired it for a quick fix. When I talked to her today I found out that she forgot what the sensor was and thought it was an old piece of Internet equipment and threw it away a couple weeks ago. Y’all this sensor has been reading the outside temp at night from a landfill about 20 miles away!!! Don’t know how but all I can say is that it’s accurate and reliable to say the least