Hi all. I moved over last week to an ecobee3 from Nest, and I'm looking to recreate my former schedule/event setup as closely as possible. Could use some guidance from the community to get this working really well.
First off, my desired schedule (this example is for winter, but similar schedule would apply for summer months):
So that's super simple, and can be done in the ecobee app. The tricky part of all of this is my Home/Away status. I use this status to control several aspects of my home, such as BlueIris cameras, thermostat, lights, etc. When all phones are away (via PHLocation), the Nest status is set to Away, which in turn the Nest sets the temp to 63 as no one is home. When someone shows back up at home, the Nest now gets set to Home and goes to its current scheduled temp.
The issue that arises when replicating this in ecobee is that ecobee doesn't have Home/Away and an independent temp schedule, it has Home with an associated temp, Away with an associated temp, and any other desired comfort statuses with their own associated temps. So at 7:00AM when I want the temp to be set to 63, but I'm still home, the ecobee sets itself to 67 - the "Home" profile.
For comparison, the Nest would set itself to Home at whatever scheduled temp was set - in this case 63 degrees. Due to this behavior, I was able to keep my downstream rules working like a charm, but have the temp be set to the proper setting of 63 degrees. I don't see this as possible with ecobee3.
Is the only way to do this via something like timed rules and extra profiles? It's a load of extra work compared to the Nest, from what I can tell, so if anyone has any tips for me, that would be awesome. I'd also love to hear how others are handling their schedules and rules as well, so let 'em fly below.
First off, my desired schedule (this example is for winter, but similar schedule would apply for summer months):
- 7:00AM - 4:00PM: set temp goal to 63, as I'm at work
- 4:00PM - 10:00PM: set temp goal to 67, as I'm home
- 10:00PM - 7:00AM: set temp goal to 63 again, as I like it cold while sleeping
So that's super simple, and can be done in the ecobee app. The tricky part of all of this is my Home/Away status. I use this status to control several aspects of my home, such as BlueIris cameras, thermostat, lights, etc. When all phones are away (via PHLocation), the Nest status is set to Away, which in turn the Nest sets the temp to 63 as no one is home. When someone shows back up at home, the Nest now gets set to Home and goes to its current scheduled temp.
The issue that arises when replicating this in ecobee is that ecobee doesn't have Home/Away and an independent temp schedule, it has Home with an associated temp, Away with an associated temp, and any other desired comfort statuses with their own associated temps. So at 7:00AM when I want the temp to be set to 63, but I'm still home, the ecobee sets itself to 67 - the "Home" profile.
For comparison, the Nest would set itself to Home at whatever scheduled temp was set - in this case 63 degrees. Due to this behavior, I was able to keep my downstream rules working like a charm, but have the temp be set to the proper setting of 63 degrees. I don't see this as possible with ecobee3.
Is the only way to do this via something like timed rules and extra profiles? It's a load of extra work compared to the Nest, from what I can tell, so if anyone has any tips for me, that would be awesome. I'd also love to hear how others are handling their schedules and rules as well, so let 'em fly below.
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