Reddit reviews ecobee Smart Thermostat 4 Heat-2 Cool with Full Color Touch Screen
We found 3 Reddit comments about ecobee Smart Thermostat 4 Heat-2 Cool with Full Color Touch Screen. Here are the top ones, ranked by their Reddit score.
Intuitive User Interface makes it easy to quickly set a personalized programBuilt-In Wi-Fi enabled. Adjust settings anywhere, anytime via Computer, Smartphone, or TabletBuild-In Live Weather Functions to assist in saving the most energy possibleIntuitive User Interface makes it easy to quickly set a personalized programBuilt-In Wi-Fi enabled. Adjust settings anywhere, anytime via Computer, Smartphone, or Tablet.Build-In Live Weather Functions to assist in saving the most energy possibleMobile Apps available for Apple IOS and Google Android smart phone and tabletsBroadband Internet access required for Wi-Fi, Weather, and Mobile features
Cheaper than a lot of other home automation thermostats. Anything networked is really up there. Even my old crappy RS-485 based device is $250. The Ecobee is $400.
No doubt your remark was meant in jest, but to set the story straight, the ecobee3 got its name because it was the third hardware model of thermostat released by ecobee (the ecobee Smart Si and EMS Si were more or less identical, with one targeting home owners and the other targeting commercial establishments). Here's a complete list of their thermostats:
Ecobee has been around since 2007. Their previous products include the original ecobee and the Smart SI. I guess you could call those the Ecobee 1 and 2.
As for any smart device dependent on the cloud, if ecobee were to suddenly go out of business and shutter their server, any kind of remote management functions would cease. No weather data on the thermostat, either. You'd still be able to program it from the thermostat itself only, since the ecobee has no embedded web server for the end user to access.