Do you know what weather source Ecobee uses for its weather? I live in an area with many microclimates and most are way off.
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Weather is picked up from the Internet depending on your location and closest weather station. It is pretty accurate.
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As of 7/22/2014, Ecobee uses CustomWeather (www.myforecast.com). Depending on where you live, they can be accurate or way off. I also live in an area with microclimates, and CustomWeather uses a weather station at a local airport (15 miles away). The reported outdoor conditions are frequently way off from reality. Ecobee customer service told me today that they are working on improving weather forecast readings - don't know whether that was real or just BS to fob my query off.
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Weather is downloaded from the internet base on the city you provide. There are no sensors outside of your house to read the weather.
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weather source is the Internet. once you setup your address it pulls it from a Internet source.
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In Seattle where I live, I can see it rain one quarter of a mile from where I live while I receive no rain. Guess what that does to weather predictions. With irrigation caddy it is easy to set up a schedule and turn it off if you see it raining. Perhaps as a middle ground you could get a sensor to automatically shut off the system when it has or is rained.
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Like another commenter I found that the batteries only lasted a week or so when used in conjunction with Z-wave/SmartThings controller without a "C" wire. When the batteries die the thermostat stops sending any signal to boiler so you better hope it's not below freezing and/or that someone is around to change them. I now have "C" wire connected and all is well so far.
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The thermostat is not set by temperatures. Levels 1-5 settings...setting 1 is pretty low...setting 5 is really high.
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Sorry, I can't help you out. I live in California where the temperature is mild.
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I also use this thermostat with an outdoor sensor that works thru my heat pump. I've set up the temp. reading to just indicate the outdoor temperature as opposed to controlling the heat pump settings. I also have an oil system.Oil is primary during the cold weather and heat pump for air conditioning. The sensor reading works well.
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Not sure but mine never worked properly as a WiFi thermostat so I got sick of the lousy customer service and purchased an ECOBEE and it works great and has a wireless temp sensor standard and extras are available.
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I agree with Karen's comment. It's really meant for dry, hot climate and wouldn't work well with another air conditioner.
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If you want to use the automatic setting, you'll need to run wires for the outside temperature sensor. Most of the rest of the wires should be pretty similar though.
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Hmmm. Just make sure you have humidity level at 50 or 55, fan on auto. Open windows? A no no. If all that doesn't work, sounds defective.
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Dorothy, I saw your post while Christmas shopping and was wondering if you had any luck finding a weather system. My husband would love one but I got so lost in the search last Christmas I just put off buying one. Can you tell me what's worked best for you? Thanks, Rhonda
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I have had a lot of luck with keeping my unit on low then moving it up to medium. I have the unit in a room and not in an open area. Our house usually starts at 35% humidity and I set it to go to 45% to 50% and it usually gets there within a couple hours.
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Yes. You could be risking moisture on electrical components. Temperature controlled environment would be a better way to go.
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Hi Mike I live in Eastern Canada and we get all kinds of nasty weather here ...I had my lights since the Spring ,and those temps shouldn't be a problem ..
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Norm, did you find a thermostat that can offer what you were looking for? I'm looking for the same thing, 77 in the summer and 68 in the winter. I haven't seen one yet that can allow 4 daily temperature changes while maintaining seperate profiles for summer and winter
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I am from Iowa and the temps stay below 0 for days. No problem if the do not have any moisture inside, which mine never have maybe because I keep the sensor 2-4 inches above ground level.
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Previous answer was correct. My only challenge with outdoor sensors was proximity .. downstairs thermostat couldn't talk with upstairs sensor outside a window. But adding sensors is totally the solution when you have multiple thermostats. Overall, great products from Honeywell!!!!!