Hi all, I’ve got a couple of questions around thermostats that I hope the community could help me out with!
I currently have an Ecobee with working API key and several remote sensors. It works well for me except for a few small issues. I make good use of the remote sensors and the comfort presets, switching between them seamlessly with Home Assistant.
The unfortunate thing is that we are moving and I don’t know what to do with the thermostat. I could leave it and upgrade, or take it with me and hope the API still works.
Does anyone know if moving the Ecobee from one place to another (different wifi credentials, different physical location, being unpowered for a couple days) will cause any problems with my API connection?
Do I just leave my thermostat and upgrade? So far the only options I’ve been considering are something from Venstar, or the Honeywell T6 z-wave. Unfortunately, I don’t have z-wave stick as I am fully invested in zigbee at the moment. Also, it seems as though there are some wifi problems with the Venstar units?
The Honeywell T6 has been discontinued. You might find them used, but I think it’s been discontinued long enough that you won’t find any new ones left in the sales channels any more.
I’m using a Honeywell T6, it’s been working happily on Z-wave for about 2 years.
My use-case sounds a lot more basic than yours though, we tend to set a static temperature and leave it at that. The only fiddling happens with the furnace/AC changeover weather, though I think there’s a way to get it to switch between heat-cool automatically based on a differential. Given we’re likely to be opening more doors/windows during that late fall/early spring I haven’t bothered to set that up.
It’s really a shame how limited the options seem to be for this type of device, skewing heavily towards cloud & WiFi.