I'm in Australia 🦘 using Remootio 3 for Garage door and it's working great! Still trying to work out all the integrations with Home Assistant

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I would think having a larger thermostat swing would increase both the time the AC runs to cool down and between when it runs. I would expect the total running time to not be that different, a little better because of efficiency, but overall a similar time, the number of times it runs will be less.
When there are multiple temperature sensors it's more complicated than just averaging. One problem Ecobee has is when preconditioning for the next climate, it uses the current sensor mix and the next temperature. My bedroom heats or cools faster than the rest of the house which is a problem when heating from a lower Away temperature with all sensors to Home with just the bedroom sensor, it will try to heat the entire house, but greatly overshoot the bedroom temperature making it uncomfortable. When preconditioning to the next climate it should keep the next climate's sensor mix in mind. I would also like it if there was an option to say for heating take the warmest sensor, or for cooling the coldest sensor so no room overshoots the set point. It would also help to dynamically control the vents to avoid the hot or cold rooms, but most residential houses don't have that level of control.
I have a two stage system and have Ecobee set with a 4 degree temperature difference before it switches to stage 2, or for reverse staging switches back to stage 1. I've heard the argument that stage 1 is more efficient because the system and condenser coil is over sized for stage 1, so it makes sense to run as much as possible over stage 2, and when it does need stage 2, switch back to stage 1 instead of off so it continues to provide cooling and smoothing out the resulting temperature. It sounds like a house being 4 degrees over the set temperature would be a problem, but the system is then constantly pushing out cold air, it doesn't feel that bad.

Nice! Your family is your TEAM OF QA TESTERS 😂🤣

Shortcut on a phone and an NFC tag hanging outside somewhere. Scan it and open the garage door, etc. Maybe inside the door of the keypad, perhaps?

Thanks Reed.

To the person asking about YAML, I've been using Home Assistant for several years. At first everything required YAML editing. But as the years and updates rolled on, just about everything got pulled out of YAML and into GUI editing. Think the last time I edited YAML was when the Harmony remote integration changed. Had to import a template and then edit the device names. If you want to fine tune Automations, it had YAML built into the GUI to do that, but at least it isn't a direct file edit anymore. If you're starting from scratch, your chances of needing to touch YAML are very low.

I used the Konnected BLAQ, which runs ESP32, with a Thrid Reality Button, that work quite nicely for my detatched garage setup. Know my Home Automation is as it stands nowhere near a layered as your is, mostly due owning a older house that some of the updates that I would love to do and cost prohibitive.

15:15 when I moved last October I was surprise at not only how quick everything came back up but how little I needed to immediately rework.

Reed, do you still use and recommend Meross as a smart garage opener?

So far the only Matter device that I have that I need to setup in the 1st party app before I can share with HA have been my Nest Thermostats. Other than that, the only other issues I have is with companies like Aqara that force you to use their app to do firmware update instead of using Matter spec OTA update.

You have 3 choices for garage door control. Tailwind, Tailwind and Tailwind. Using it for well over a year and it is flawless.

I love the comment about pressing light switches being barbaric I'm not gonna forget it lol Thanks for featuring me in one of your videos it was totally unexpected haha

You need to check out the satellite1 smart speaker. It is significantly better than the Voice PE.

For resolving conflicts between automations, I take a different approach— each automation controls a different thing (and is named for that thing). The “thing” could be a single device, a group of devices in an area (first floor ceiling fans) or even a specific attribute (thermostat setpoint). This forces thinking about how to prioritize behaviors. I also use a fair number of helper entities to encapsulate logical states, which keeps the complexity down and more debuggable. Since I moved to this approach my smart home has gotten much better at doing what I want.