You can override these at any time remotely or at home, with the ability to set durations for the override, to keep the in place until you change it, or to keep it in place until the next scheduled setting comes on..
Follow Me feature, it will use the remote sensors to detect when you are in space that is cooler than your preferred settings and will then average the remote sensors and temp to adjust the temp to be more comfortable.
I feel like the release of Ecobee4 will be the end of listening to suggestions about how to improve Ecobee3. I do not feel like they are listening to the customer base on improvements or feature requests.
I decided that I did not like the higher end thermostats for their system and wanted one that would work with Amazon Alexa for voice control and such.
Also, I chose this over Nest making it possible to fine tune the temperature at.
I do not see how it's supposed to get the temperature do know when to perform the switchover from heat pump to furnace and vice versa..
I KNEW from the reviews that I read that people were using the reports from the unit to fine tune the switch over temperature so it had to be getting the temperature somehow so I called Ecobee tech support this morning and explained what my installer had said.
Apparently, it uses the internet to get data from Weatherbug com to get the temperature of you area based on your city zip code.
We in region and we are very prone to very different micro climates that can be very different from location only half mile away degree variations from any of the locations near us that are found on Ecobee is not too unusual.
The idea that this system is being sold on 'efficiency and the fact that it supports duel fuel is misleading when you consider the source for the temperature.
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