Awesome Tips The temperature in my house is always PERFECT
I automated my smart thermostat so the temperature is always perfect! Here’s how…
I automated my smart thermostat so the temperature is always perfect! Here’s how…
ecobee thermostat Premium:
ecobee3 Lite:
Aqara Presence Sensor FP2:
For the room presence detection
Bluetooth tracker on Luna:
ESP32:
3D printed case for the 30 pin version:
(affiliate links)
Here’s how I set this up:
More info on smart room detection:
Here is the YAML code for the automations
ecobee Premium:
What I wish I knew about smart thermostats:
Nest vs ecobee:
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0:00 Intro
0:38 Current Setup
1:10 Detection problems
2:03 Even MORE precise…
4:19 Fine tuning the details
5:52 Home and away
6:43 Is it REALLY perfect?
7:27 More perfect than I thought
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The End by EVA
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I'm loving this! Here's how I set it up: https://youtu.be/g53jpdWoXVk
Here is the YAML code if you're into that kind of thing https://smarthomesolver.com/reviews/room-presence-temperature-automation/
The ecobee smart sensor doesn't work as advertised. It's never properly sensed when I'm in a room or not. Then again I only have one air conditioner so there is no way to zone the up stairs and down stairs of my house properly. The only proper way to do things would be smart vents that open and close.
Can you review the Zolo Mojo speaker
turning on ac for 24 hours is kinda bad idea cause you may get addicted to your ac. Its okay if you are wishing but Electricity power bill is a problem
federal agent's wet dream
You sleep with the cooling set to 82 degrees?! No fucking way my wife would allow that, or me for that matter
Thanks Reed.
I always wonder the net cost of turning the AC off for extended periods because wouldn't everything in the house warm up too (furniture, rugs, walls, etc), and therefore take a lot more energy to cool everything back down? I notice when my AC is off for long periods and I turn it back on, it runs for longer and more frequent cycles for several hours. Anyway, I could be totally misguided, just something I've been wondering about lately.
Those sensors might be what I'm finally looking for with presence detection. Love it can tie into your Apple Watch. Just need someone to do some cases for me, no friends with 3D printers. Plus there's the whole setting it all up haha. Now, can this be done with only one thermostat?
Don't you have smart TRV's in America?
Now, how do I get my wife to stop opening the windows and throwing off the temperature?
HA has a proximity integration I hope to use someday for similar logic – automatic vacation mode and seeing that I'm coming home.
Where the video for Android users?
Hi great video, one question though, what happens when your all in the same room?
Everything you do is both insanely cool and seems insanely exhausting hahaha
NOT PERFECT! haha, you must have your temperature adjusted based on the humidity… so the FEELS LIKE tempature is always what you want
Your videos are just so entertaining and I have to watch them even though thermostats aren't a smart device anyone uses in Australia.
The Tesla Custom Integration allows you to read the navigation target and ETA from your Tesla. You can set it up so that when you navigate home and are less than X minutes away, that it will start cooling your home. I have it setup that way myself. Works great!
Too much work. Just get up,change the temp, and tell your family to deal with it.
You lost me at “…two air conditioners.” Lol
Anything over 68 is hell 😂
I have the Ecobee thermostat, and it already has a follow me occupancy feature.. While I sort of agree with your note about motion sensors not detecting still people that is ONE of the reasons ecobee is fast to change to new movement but slow to revert back to no movement.
Over all your heating and cooling system can only move the temp X degrees so fast, even slower for AC / Heatpumps. Changing the temp rapidly by more than 1 or 2 degrees will be in efficient and may not get you to comfort very fast.
I actually STOPPED trying to make the system react to occupancy and just use comfortable averages by sets of rooms by time of day.. Focus on common rooms averaged during the day and ONLY bedrooms at night.
I also change the schedule in the winter as the furnace has different performance characteristics and in a multi floor home heat rising from the furnace and cool air settling in the bottom from AC really has a different dynamic.
Over all the addition of bluetooth seems to massively over complicate this setup. If anything I would go from motion to mmWave and just reduce the reaction time slightly for vacancy and be done with it so pets, guests and children all are comfortable and not treat the parents as special altra tracked targets for this automation.