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expired Posted by gumibear • May 27, 2021
May 27, 2021 3:43 PM
ecobee Smart Thermostat and Smart Sensor w/ Voice Control
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But, no need to take your or my word for it. Let's use data and references and critical thinking.
Google support page for the nest:
"Your thermostat's Energy History is a detailed summary that covers the last 10 days. You can view it on your thermostat or with the Nest app on a phone, tablet, or computer."
https://support.google.
Anywho. Maybe you've got a magic nest, or can't count. But, PLEASE share proof rather than assertion as if you are correct I'd love to get that data out of it. I know there are 3rd party scripts to scrape the google API and get your data but they are a pain.
One of the greatest potential values of a smart thermostat is the data over long periods of time to establish seasonal energy consumption changes. Nest makes this impossible. However, ecobee makes it EASY!
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We bought the nest sensors hoping that would help with setting comfortable temps in the house but the stupid sensors only allow you to use them at specific schedules. You cannot set your schedule per day or per day of the week, so if I wanted my office during the day when I am working, from 7-4, forget it. I would have to use their preset blocks. People have been asking them to change this for three years and they refuse. It pretty much makes the sensors useless.
Then there is the big one that I finally had enough of, and that is how nest determines to kick on. Most classic thermostats wait for .5 degrees of variability before kicking on. This means if you set your AC to turn on at 72, it will kick on at 72.5. Nest's "cost savings feature" is its 2-degree variability, so it won't kick on until 74. Before google locked it down, you could change that to 1 degree and it kept your house more comfortable through IFTTT, but now, nope.
After the baby and dealing with having to manually set the sensor every day when she went to bed I just had enough. We switched to Ecobee and bought sensors for every main room.
I LOVE this thing. We have separate schedules for weekends and weekdays. Have a schedule with the nursery sensor to be warmer at bath time and 20 minutes after, then cool off before bedtime. Setting the motion for "WFH" keeps things balanced when my wife has her WFH days between our two offices.
Ecobee is arguably less "pretty" on the wall, but it is 1000% better in terms of features and functionality. Nest is probably great for people with apartments or small, sub-1000 Sq ft townhomes/lofts who only care about turning on eco mode and forgetting it. Here in Texas though, with 100+ degree summers (and I guess -5 winters now) leaving it to determine when's best to run and at what temp, especially with infants/toddlers, isn't an option.
Sorry for the rant, I just really appreciate my move to ecobee over the nest. FWIW we went with the latest generation "lite" model as we didn't need the voice on the thermostat. used the cost savings to get more sensors. I seriously could not be any happier with our Ecobee setup and wish I did this years ago instead of fighting with that PoS nest.
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We don't (well our humidifier has it's own smart scheduling system) so we didn't need it and went with the lite. Each (upstairs and downstairs, 2 HVAC systems) has 5 sensors linked and works great.
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But, no need to take your or my word for it. Let's use data and references and critical thinking.
Google support page for the nest:
"Your thermostat's Energy History is a detailed summary that covers the last 10 days. You can view it on your thermostat or with the Nest app on a phone, tablet, or computer."
https://support.google.
Anywho. Maybe you've got a magic nest, or can't count. But, PLEASE share proof rather than assertion as if you are correct I'd love to get that data out of it. I know there are 3rd party scripts to scrape the google API and get your data but they are a pain.
One of the greatest potential values of a smart thermostat is the data over long periods of time to establish seasonal energy consumption changes. Nest makes this impossible. However, ecobee makes it EASY!
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