KEY FEATURES: ?Color touch screen display with extremely intuitive interface?Precision +/- 1°F (0.5°C) temperature control ?Remote access via the Internet – required wireless router?Vacation scheduling – conserve energy while you are away from your home for extended periods?Seven-day programming schedules ?Humidity monitoring and control – includes frost control to minimize window condensation?Access control – require 4-digit password to restrict changes to thermostat – great for vacation rentals?Intelligent algorithms that adapt to your home and preferences ?Advanced furnace fan control – allows the homeowner to determine a minimum time per hour that the furnace fan will run.?Local weather display – when connected to internet thermostat uses your registered location to display local weather?Ventilator control – provides contact closure relay to control HRV’s / ERV’s ?Quick Save function – pressing the Quick Save button as you leave your home will put your thermostat in to an energy saving configuration.?EnergyStarT compliant ?3-Year WarrantyGet it now!just only $302.50,buy it Now！click here!
- Ecobee EB-STAT-02 Enabled Smart Internet Thermostat
- Amazon Sales Rank: #4796 in Home Improvement
- Color: White
- Brand: Ecobee
- Model: EB-STAT-02
- Dimensions: 4.00 pounds
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25 of 25 people found the following review helpful.
I LOVE this thermostat!
By MikeK
Synopsis:
Yes, this is a pricey thermostat – there is no disputing that but, this isn’t a clunky time clock that just adjusts the temperature set point a few times a day either. Plain and simple, it’s a computer to monitor and control your home environment and it does this very well.
Prior to purchase…
The Ecobee website (ecobee.com) has links to download the installation and operating manuals and is well worth a look prior to purchasing the unit. There are no fewer than a dozen different wiring diagrams for various single or multi-stage configurations including heat pumps.
My situation:
I purchased the EB-STAT-02 for my vacation home. I may use the home on the weekend, a couple of weeks in a row or, I may not visit for a month. A traditional “time clock” thermostat just doesn’t fill the need – I may as well just have a conventional thermostat and deal with waiting for the system to adjust when I arrive.
Complicating my irregular visitation and use of the house, I have a somewhat unique 2 stage heating / 1 stage cooling system. Not that it’s all that “unique”, it’s just not typical. I have a hydronic radiant floor heating system as stage 1 that is augmented by electric forced air as stage 2. Cooling is via a single stage forced air system. A radiant floor heating system is very slow to react to significant temperature changes. What this means is that if I just drop in unplanned for a winter weekend, the weekend may be over before the stage 1 temperature to comes up to its set point. The ability to adjust the settings remotely is *huge* for me. (I know, I know – radiant floor heating for a vacation home?? It’s a future retirement home too!)
The installation:
Given the fact that there is no industry color standard for control wiring for residential heating and air conditioning, the installation for my system was likely more difficult than most will ever experience. Did I mention that I also have sensors for the floor slab temperature and outdoor temperature adding 4 more wires into the mix? (I purchased the remote sensor module add-on for up to 4 external sensors.) This is where Ecobee’s tech support comes in. Even though the Ecobee website is up front about urging you to find a contractor in your area to install your stat and the warranty contains the standard disclaimers to discourage DIY’ers, Ecobee’s tech support was great. I communicated with them via email since I wasn’t at the house and I was pre-planning. I emailed them diagrams of my previous stat wiring and what I thought was the correct new wiring, asking for opinions. They identified a jumper that I needed for proper staging. Email responses weren’t instantaneous, it took a day or so but, if I was in a hurry, I would have called.
Setting the thermostat up for internet access (wireless!) was completely painless. Typing on the thermostat’s on screen “keyboard” was a lot like sending email on a smart phone – cumbersome to me but not too bad.
Operation:
My thermostat is all connected now and working fine. I still have to review and tweak the program settings to decide things such as what the temperature differences between stage 1 and 2 should be. There are numerous customizable settings in addition to the typical wake up / away / return / sleep time settings.
Internet Access!
After the initial installation and set-up, I seldom make any changes on the thermostat, I use my browser instead. I go right to my thermostat and monitor what the set point is and adjust it if I want to. I can review and download the temperature set point data, internal humidity and temperature readings and even have it email specific data to me such as temperature out of range and air handler filter change needed.
Smartphone Access too!
Although not as comprehensive as the web browser access, there is a free app for your Smartphone that you can use to make adjustments.
Summary:
All in all, I’m very pleased with the Ecobee thermostat, the only drawback (if you can call it that) is price. However, it’s not at all fair to compare the price of this unit to a traditional thermostat because feature-wise, there is no comparison. It’s like comparing a radio to the HDTV – on either device at the end of the ballgame you’ll know who won, but it’s a very different experience getting there.
10 of 10 people found the following review helpful.
Perfect for a vacation home provided you have WIFI
By BrianD
I purchased this to operate a thermostat remotely for our vacation property. We don’t always know when we will be there, and it is also nice to be able to adjust the temperature after I’ve driven off and forgotten to do it.
The Ecobee is a fully Programmable Thermostat that lets you operate it remotely over the internet. The unit does require a WIFI connection so that it can connect to the Internet. Remote access is actually done via Ecobee’s servers and website. After the unit is configured for your WIFI Router it then starts communicating with Ecobee directly. You will set up an account with an Email Address and Password via the Thermostat. Once done you can now log on to Ecobee.com and access your unit. You can also do this with an Application on your smartphone (IPhone?) but with more limited capabilities. Very cool!
I installed the unit myself but I’m not sure I would advise this as a DIY project unless you have some knowledge of HVAC wiring and controls. The vast majority of us do not. I have a Heat Pump and failed to initially configure the Ecobee for this, so I was struggling to understand why I had no cooling. I was having discomforting thoughts of having to call a Technician to bail me out before I baked to death in my Condo. Alas I figured it out.
Traditional thermostats control your Furnace and Air Conditioning over only a few wires. In older homes that have thermostat wire with 5 or fewer strands this can present real limitations, especially for newer Two Stage Furnaces or Dual Compressor Cooling Units. Add to that Heat Pumps, Auxilary Electric heating, Dehumidification, or Humidification features, and there is no way to do this with only a few wires. Enter the concept of an Equipment Interface Module. Basically this is a separate control unit that is mounted directly to your Furnace/Air Handler and can be wired directly with a much larger selection of options. The thermostat no longer controls your Furnace directly but communicates digitally to the Equipment Interface Module using only the few wires you have in your wall. Many modern high end HVAC units now work this way. The Ecobee functions just this way.
Installation.
Ideally you would just mount the Module to the side of your Furnace or Air Handler. In my case it was a very tight fit to be able to service it so I purchased some 6 inch ‘L’ brackets from the hardware store and mounted it that way. Next I had to wire it. I searched locally for some thermostat wire to connect the module to my Furnace but no one had anything with more than 5 strands. I ended up driving further than I would have liked and found some 7 strand. I then disconnected the existing thermostat wire from my furnace and tried to connect it to the Module. This would be my communication wire. Too short! I had to splice in an piece to make it reach. Next I installed the new piece of 7 strand wire between the Module and my furnace. Finally I installed a piece of 2 strand wire from the 24VAC supply inside the furnace to power the Ecobee Module, otherwise you will need to buy an AC Adapter. From there it was just turning the breaker switch back on and getting things configured.
Programming is best done from a web browser and internet connection. Use the mouse to drag the 7 day calendar, then select the mode Icon (Sleep, Awake, Away, etc.). Then select the Edit Icon to adjust the mode temperatures. Once you have figured out how this works it is a breeze. I was surprised also with how easily it connected to the internet and became accessible to me. It seems very well sorted out from that standpoint. I don’t feel at all like a new adopter guinea pig. By comparison it took me hours recently just to get my E3000 Cisco WIFI router working, a technology that should now be very mature. The Ecobee is without a doubt one of the coolest gadgets I have purchased in a long time. The fact that I can actually see what the temperature is in my Condo and adjust it with a finger drag on my Iphone is really futuristic stuff.
10 of 10 people found the following review helpful.
Pretty, intuitive, and geeky
By G. Bartley
My wife and I recently purchased a new heat pump unit and wanted to upgrade to a programmable thermostat. We actually saved up too much money for the heat pump unit and had some extra money to spend. After looking at all the fancy, touch-screen programmable thermostats, I settled on this one. Yeah, sure, it’s pretty pricey, but I think it’s worth it.
Installation was pretty simple. I am no HVAC technician, but I was able to figure out the colored wires from the old thermostat and match them with this one. My setup is pretty simple, electric heat pump with heating and cooling modes, and the auxiliary electric heat, but there are plenty more pins for more complicated equipment setups. For those kinds of setups, I would definitely recommend hiring a real technician. One thing I liked about this unit’s installation was the two-piece setup. The touchscreen part mounts wherever your thermostat is traditionally mounted. Then there is another control board that mounts out-of-sight. Fortunately, my thermostat was mounted on the outside wall of a utility closet, so this gave plenty of room to install the control board inside the closet. If you don’t have the option to mount inside a closet of sorts, the control board is in a nice, clean enclosure with some LED status lights.
As for using the thermostat, it’s a breeze. You can do the heating and cooling temperatures right on the home screen. It’s also nice that it has a weather display of the current conditions, and you can even dig deeper into the forecast. The installation wizard was simple (for my basic system), and everything feels pretty intuitive. I would recommend using the Ecobee.com web site to do the actual time-of-day programming. There are 4 modes: awake, away, home, and night. You assign temperature ranges to each of those modes. Then you assign those modes to 30-minute chunks of each day for the week.
The only problem that I have with this thermostat is that I can never seem to get it to report the correct temperature. I’ve been monitoring the temperature reported by the thermostat alongside another couple of digital thermometers, and the thermostat always seems to be off by 1-2 degrees. There is a setting in the thermostat that allows you to adjust the displayed temperature by a few degrees in half-degree increments. However, I always seem to overshoot it or undershoot it, but I’m not sure how. It seems like it may be overcompensating somehow? It’s either that, or it only takes temperature readings every 15-30 minutes. I’m not sure which.
I almost forgot to mention that there is an iPhone app for controlling the thermostat remotely. It’s a little buggy and could maybe do with a little more “polish”, but it gets the job done. The bugginess is that it seems to have issues authenticating you or connecting to the thermostat every now and then. It’s intermittent, so waiting a couple of minutes may clear the issue up. Also, if you adjust the thermostat heating and cooling sliders, it may take a while for it to actually take effect on the thermostat itself. The trick is to wait for the mode icon to change to the resume icon to know that your settings were saved. If you exit out of the app without waiting for this confirmation, it will never save. Besides the couple of minor flaws, it’s nice to be able to put the thermostat into “save” mode if you’re out of the house and forgot to set it before you left.
There are a couple of other features like vacation mode that I haven’t used yet. In all, after doing many hours of research, this is the only internet-enabled touchscreen thermostat that I would buy. In my opinion, it is the best one on the market (as of the time of this review).
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