I am fed up with my Ecobee thermostat. I want something that is not cloud dependent. Any recommendations? Amazon has a meross thermostat that’s got a good price: Amazon.com: meross Smart Thermostat for Home, WiFi Thermostat Works with Matter, Alexa, Apple Home, Google Assistant, App & Voice Control, 7x24h Scheduling, Energy Saving, C-Wire Required : Everything Else
Anyone have experience with this?
If you attach to your ecobee via the Home Assistant Homekit hub, there are features that are local / non-cloud
Climate Control
Sensors
You may want to give this a try before going through replacement
A decent thermostat panel is presented in the overview
I don’t have homekit hub
I love the Honeywell ZWave T6 Pro that I have at several properties.
They aren’t easy to get anymore though.
I was going to say something about the new IKEA Matter devices, but they don’t appear to have a thermostat, just a temperature / humidity sensor.
Home Assistant can act as a Home Kit hub.
Ok… its a free, standarly supported home assistant integration, and standalone… I don’t own any apple homekit anything outside of this integration in HA for connecting to my ecobee
But I don’t have any Apple devices to use as a bridge.
Regardless, I think my Ecobee is on it’s last legs. I want to replace it with something that is directly controlled by HA and that will not “phone home”
You don’t need an apple device. It connects directly to HA and is rock solid. Get a new one and hook it up directly.
Neither do I… I have a home assistant green, the HA Homekit integration… and my ecobee… zero apple products involved
Why? I have the Ecobee Thermostat Enhanced and it is completely local with the HomeKit Integration that you just add into HA. Like the other responder, that is all I use for that integration -
It even can act as a motion sensor as well… ! DON’T SWITCH TO ANOTHER THERMOSTAT UNTIL YOU EXAMINE THIS INTEGRATION!
Sorry to intrude, but does anybody have any ANSWERS to his questions rather than telling him he’s wrong?
The replies here is because it is sort of a XY problem.
The root cause is the cloud dependency, but the OP went for what he see as the solution, not knowing that there maybe is a just as good a solution that is way cheaper.
The replies is not that he wrong, but that he have missed a possible solution.
I’ll also note that I did give an answer. I recommend the Honeywell ZWave T6 Pro if they can find it somewhere. They are rock solid devices and fully local.
