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Preface: please don't tell us why we shouldn't use a smart thermostat.
I'll probably need to go on a video rant about this, but smart thermostats are rapidly getting dumber.
My folks got a new heat pump system in the spring. It needed a new two-stage thermostat and the company offered an Ecobee.
"Great!" I thought. People kept telling me Ecobee is better than Nest, and I've had major frustrations with the new Nest thermostat.
Folks. It's just bad in different but equally maddening ways.
The ONE THING Ecobee did better was holding. Y'know, the feature every programmable thermostat has had forever.
Well, in November I went on a trip with them and needed to figure out how to get the thermostat to be dumb for their house/dogsitter.
Where did the hold feature go? It appeared to be gone.
Oh? Now you have to go into the settings and tell it *how long* you want it to hold a temporary change, and one of the options is "indefinitely"
WHO THOUGHT THAT MADE ANY SENSE
@TechConnectify it’s literally two taps? Chose the temp and then “until I change it” ? I’m not sure what the gripe is.
@TechConnectify I guess technically one swipe & one tap:
Swipe to spin the “dial” to the temp you want - and one tap to pick the duration option of “until I change it”.
@valkraider that is not how it works on their version. And I dug into the documentation to figure out what had changed with their specific thermostat.
Now, when you change the temperature you don't get any sort of pop-up asking if you want this to change permanently. It just changes.
You have to decide previously, deep in the settings, how long that change will stay. That is how you use the whole function now on their version. It is ridiculous.
@TechConnectify That’s weird. On ours the “hold duration” was added in the updated UI they rolled out this past year, and we have the option in settings “decide at time of change” set so that we can choose each time. I agree with you - if you can’t have it be more dynamic it’s a bad choice but I have to wonder why their ecobee is not updated?
Reason we use Ecobee instead of Nest: Google doesn’t need any more data on what we do in our house. ;)
@valkraider it could be this has been fixed. But about a month ago, that was not an option.