1/26/2019 0 Comments Ecobee App For MacEcobee today announced that the ecobee3 smarter Wi-Fi thermostat now supports Apple HomeKit and will be available at Apple Stores in July. Get the iClarified app for iPhone, iPad, iPod touch, Mac OS X, and Apple Watch! Ecobee makes it easier for you to maximize comfort and savings without compromising your lifestyle. With the ecobee app, you could enjoy whole home comfort by adjusting your lights and temperature settings anytime, anywhere. I just ordered an Ecobee 3 and sensors to install. Its my first step into HomeKit and was curious if anyone had an tips or advice in setting this up. Drivers for iatkos ec. We have a two zone system (one for each floor), but I'm going to just put in one for downstairs first to see how it works. We have had a problem with our master bedroom (downstairs) always being really hot or cold compared to the rest of the first floor. There should have been a third zone for this room because its fairly isolated from the main part of the first floor where the thermostat is. On cold nights in the winter, its brutal. I'm hoping the Ecobee will do the trick with its sensors and programability. Assuming this works, I'm sure I'll be buying a lot more homekit devices. Just wanted to say we've had ours for about a year and I love it. It was easy to install and looks great. It was my first venture into home automation as well. I love being able to set a schedule, change the schedule from my app, etc. I wouldn't expect miracles as far as balancing the temp between different rooms or areas of the house. We have our thermostat downstairs by the front door and our sensor is upstairs in our bedroom. In summer the bedroom is usually a little warmer than we'd like. Which is fine with me, I don't want to pay for the downstairs to be frigid just so our bedroom is a little cooler. Still though, it's a neat product and good investment. Anyway, hope you like it! Just wanted to say we've had ours for about a year and I love it. It was easy to install and looks great. It was my first venture into home automation as well. I love being able to set a schedule, change the schedule from my app, etc. I wouldn't expect miracles as far as balancing the temp between different rooms or areas of the house. We have our thermostat downstairs by the front door and our sensor is upstairs in our bedroom. In summer the bedroom is usually a little warmer than we'd like. Which is fine with me, I don't want to pay for the downstairs to be frigid just so our bedroom is a little cooler.
Still though, it's a neat product and good investment. Anyway, hope you like it! Click to expand. Thanks for the info. In our case, we'd be OK with paying a little more to have the room we are in comfortable. Or I should say tolerable. During the extremes of the seasons, or master bedroom can be intolerable and we are constantly having to change the thermostat to accommodate it. Having it set at night to go by the bedroom sensor would make this so much easier and not result in constant manual adjustments. We have a similar problem upstairs in that I have my home office in the bonus room and am in there with the door closed most of the time during the day, and the thermostat is outside that room. What would be awesome is if someone would make homekit enabled vents for the HVAC system. You could then have the system close vents to more efficiently target areas of the house. Our system is just not designed very well and it would be very expensive to have it fixed correctly. There a few things you can do that can help. Close vents in the rooms that are too cool or partially open them. Use motorized vents, not sure if there are any that are homekit yet but there are a number for SmartThings system 3. Have a booster fan installed in the duct to the room where the problem is and it goes on by a separate thermostat. I have been installing building automation systems for 32 years and those are the easiest things to do and least expensive. The design of home HVAC blown air are not balanced systems where they are designed with bigger ducts to certain rooms, automated dampers with fan units in each room. There a few things you can do that can help. ![]() Close vents in the rooms that are too cool or partially open them. Use motorized vents, not sure if there are any that are homekit yet but there are a number for SmartThings system 3. Have a booster fan installed in the duct to the room where the problem is and it goes on by a separate thermostat. I have been installing building automation systems for 32 years and those are the easiest things to do and least expensive. The design of home HVAC blown air are not balanced systems where they are designed with bigger ducts to certain rooms, automated dampers with fan units in each room. Click to expand. ![]() Thanks for the tips. We've done the vent closing in other parts of the house, but there are a lot of vents and then during the day when not in the bedroom its the reverse. It doesn't help that the thermostat is in the family room which has a two story ceiling height. The bedroom is on the other side of the kitchen from the family room.
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