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2-Pack ecobee SmartSensor (White)
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ecobee has its 2-Pack ecobee SmartSensor (White) on sale for $49.99. Shipping is free.
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Thanks to community member hangrat for sharing this deal.
Product Features
- Automatically adjusts the temperature for energy savings when you leave home and restores your comfort settings when you return.
- Detects which rooms are in use and adjusts the temperature accordingly for comfort in those spaces.
- Works with ecobee SmartThermostat with voice control, ecobee3 lite, ecobee4, and ecobee3.
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Written by qwikwit | Staff- About this deal:
- Our research indicates that 2-Pack ecobee SmartSensor (White) is $21.96 lower (30.5% savings) than the next best available price from a reputable merchant with prices starting from $71.95 at the time of this posting.
- About this product:
- 4.5 out of 5 stars based on 111 reviews at ecobee.
- About this store:
- ecobee return policy details can be found here.
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ecobee has its 2-Pack ecobee SmartSensor (White) on sale for $49.99. Shipping is free.
Thanks to community member hangrat for sharing this deal.
Product Features
Thanks to community member hangrat for sharing this deal.
Product Features
- Automatically adjusts the temperature for energy savings when you leave home and restores your comfort settings when you return.
- Detects which rooms are in use and adjusts the temperature accordingly for comfort in those spaces.
- Works with ecobee SmartThermostat with voice control, ecobee3 lite, ecobee4, and ecobee3.
Editor's Notes
Written by qwikwit | Staff- About this deal:
- Our research indicates that 2-Pack ecobee SmartSensor (White) is $21.96 lower (30.5% savings) than the next best available price from a reputable merchant with prices starting from $71.95 at the time of this posting.
- About this product:
- 4.5 out of 5 stars based on 111 reviews at ecobee.
- About this store:
- ecobee return policy details can be found here.
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cliff notes:
1. follow me = doesn't work, not good for saving energy or anything for that matter
2. sensors are great if you know how and what to use them for
3. everything is about the setup and not just plug and play.
4. new sensors battery life seems to be not as good as the old one's (might have changed with recent productions, but people complained that the battery would die in the first three months when it first came out.)
5. functions are hidden in system but can find most functions on thermostat. hard to know what does what
Long Read but worth It (trust me)
my current setup = ecobee 3 and 5 sensors setup with 2 extra incase any of the sensors go bad.
setup for me:
1. open all vents in house and install sensors where you think you might need them. start off with a min 3 sensors plus thermostat
2. cool house and check each sensors temp - reading should be + or - 1-2 degrees
3. in our case, thermostat is about 6 degrees or more colder that all other sensors and all other sensors read about 4 degrees off from each other.
4. any sensors that is reading more colder/hotter then current temperatures, adjust vents to restrict air flow to that room and test again.
5. repeat process until temps are close to each other or you get tired of testing and just give up.
6. if current temperatures cannot be close to each other, it's ok as time of day, sunlight, insulation will factor into room temp differences.
7. if on a separate level house (2 floors or more, set even temp per floor)
8. once everything is set up, let system stay the way it is, and test for the next couple of days to make sure temp on each sensor is to your satisfaction.
9. once done, continue to next steps.
setting up cooling comfort settings:
this is where it get's a little interesting as after the fist setup, most will leave it at that and say it's good, but you need to customize it a little more as different events will change our cooling needs.
if you leave this stock and set the temp on the thermostat, it will average all sensors and make the room with the most people hotter while making the other rooms ice cold.
Home, Sleep, Away, is the default settings but you need to add to this.
1. go to your comfort settings and tap on Home
2. set temp for home
3. under sensors, pick sensors that you want to be averaged in this comfort setting
4. save settings
5. add other settings depending on your needs and name them accordingly (kids Gaming, Visitors, Party)
doing it this way, you have full control of what sensors are averaged and not trapped by having the thermostat average all sensors.
yes it might not be a friendly way to do it as you have to change it depending on your needs, but at least you are only cooling the room your in and being comfortable at the same time.
we have this thermostat on google and just tell google to change it to the comfort setting we want
side note :
for the person that was asking about the auto fan on to help cool down the house without having the ac/heater on.
you can click on the setting and tap on the fan icon to turn it from auto to on or:
1. go to settings and then system
2. click on fan and enter a number from 0-60
3. what this setting does is turn on the in home fan, without turning on the ac/heater for x amount of min every hour.
this will have the internal fan cycle on and off every x amount of min every hour, even when your not home to circulate the air and try to prevent stale air inside your house.
hope this helps some, have ecobee and happy setup. it takes some time, but so worth it.
EDIT: 8% cash-back is available but I'm not allowed to say where.
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The app tends to glitch on me, showing my sensors on the wrong floor, but refreshing that usually fixes it. I also wish geofencing worked better.
If we used the follow me mode our usage would increase drastically.
Living in a split level upstairs always hot, downstairs always cold. Probably need to adjust the vents better but can never get an even temperature.
1. You can place sensors upstairs in the hallway & bedroom and one downstairs. You can give the priority to the sensors with the bedroom being #1 and downstairs #2 or other way around, and then set the desired temperature on the thermostat. The occupancy sensor built-in these sensors will tell the HVAC to function to maintain the temperature at the sensor detecting occupancy, If multiple sensors detect occupancy, it will try to average it out.
2.Typically in a split level house with just one HVAC unit, I would partially close the vents upstairs in winter (the hot air rises up) and in the winter, partially close the downstairs vents. You should avoid closing the vents completely as it puts too much stress on the blower motor- reducing it's life span.
Hope this helps.
P.S. In for one.
The problem is my (probably most) HVAC system is a blunt instrument. It can't heat/cool one room and not others. So if it needs to turn on, it turns on for the entire house. It's still useful knowledge to have that information at your fingertips. For example, the baby room is 4F warmer than other places in the house. Though, that's something that usually requires manual intervention on my part.
YMMV. In my situation, my house probably just has general challenges. Which rooms (or don't) face the sun, time of day, inefficient ductwork, windows, which vents are open or closed, etc. There is another setting in ecobee that lets you control how often the fan turns on to push air around to distribute better. IMHO this does a tiny bit to improve the uneven temps in my house.
More specifically, can a smart thermostat control my HVAC and cool/warm only specific rooms only in order to save electricity?
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More specifically, can a smart thermostat control my HVAC and cool/warm only specific rooms only in order to save electricity?
So if you have one in your bedroom and use it for your sleep schedule, and say you want your sleep schedule to be 72 degrees, it will use that sensor in your room. So even if the main unit is registering 68 degrees, your bedroom will still be 72.
Your ac is still pushing air to all the vents, but is is looking at the temperature sensor for whichever one (or multiple) you assign.
More specifically, can a smart thermostat control my HVAC and cool/warm only specific rooms only in order to save electricity?
Getting a new house built, and I'll be going back to Ecobee again. Ordered 5 of these 2-packs... could only add up to 4 in one order, but was able to order the 5th 2-pack separately at the discounted price still.
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Getting a new house built, and I'll be going back to Ecobee again. Ordered 5 of these 2-packs... could only add up to 4 in one order, but was able to order the 5th 2-pack separately at the discounted price still.
One thing I lost was my full three stages with the modulating furnace, but with DIP switch settings on the furnace board I can still use it as a two stage with Ecobee, either low-high or med-hight. The other nice thing about the Infinity controller was that it could test static pressure in realtime, which was nice to tell if I was using a too-restrictive air filter, or if I had too many registers closed - but once I checked those things, static pressure never really changed so I didn't need to keep testing it.
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