ecobee thermostat

[Mark Sanctuary]

Check this little guy out...

 

http://www.ecobee.com

 

Have anyone experimented with the ecobee thermostat?

 

Can it be tied into the ISY?

 

Thanks,

[Mark Sanctuary]

Looks really cool. Has some cool data collecting features.

[Brian H]

I downloaded the manuals and will give them a look.

Thanks for the heads up.

[mmknox]

I have one of these ecobees in my home. It is a very nice stand-alone solution, but currently has no means to connect to a home automation system. I have been in contact with the company about this. The touchscreen has a "Quick Save" button that lets you put the home into (user configurable) energy savings mode with the idea that you hit this button as you go out the door. I would like them to, at minumum, provide a set of contacts that something like a IOLinc could connect to and trigger this "Quick Save" mode. Then I could tie it in to my system so that it would respond with all of my other "Away" events. They do have an iPhone app, so at least if I forget before I go out, I can adjust it remotely.

[richardl007]

I have an Ecobee EMS that i tied into a EZIO40 and it controls the temperature when i'm not home. There are 2 inputs on the ems system that can be used for these type of things.

[mmknox]

richardl007,

 

Can you elaborate? Are we talking about the same device (www.ecobee.com) ?

 

I am not aware of any inputs on the control units that I could trigger with the contact closure of a EZIO device. I even spoke with the manufacturer about this and they said that there was no such provision at present.

 

Have you come up with some kind of hack? If so, I'd be very interested. I'd like to be able to trigger the ecobee into "Quick Save" mode when my house is in "Away" mode via an EZIO.

 

Mike

[richardl007]

yes we are talking about the same thing. Ecobee has 2 products, 1 the norman ecobee and second an ecobee EMS. The ems is the same as the normal ecobee but with more features like 2 dry contacts that can be used the control the ecobee. Look at pages 31-32 in the ems manual.

 

http://www.ecobee.com/wp-content/themes ... 710WEB.pdf

[mmknox]

Thanks! The ecobee Smart Thermostat that I have has two dry contact inputs on the control board, but they are non-functional on this model. I asked ecobee almost a year ago about enabling some sort of option to put the 'stat in savings mode based on a contact closure. Seems they've enabled this on their commercial EMS model (which wasn't available when I got mine).