ecobee Smart Thermostat Premium: Wi-Fi, Voice Control, Energy Star, Apple HomeKit & Alexa Compatible, 7-Day Programmable

HVAC installer set it up for me. Explained everything to me.

Big beautiful numbers and colorful display. It’s very easy to read and easy to program, connect to your phone and easy to connect to your utility service. It’s super easy to personalize to your home and to your preferences.

I purchased the Ecobee Premium last week to replace my Nest Generation 2. I'm happy with the purchase overall. Installation was very easy. The thing I really like are "Comfort Settings." You set a home, away, sleep (or anything you want) comfort setting and then apply that to a day/time of the week. So, if you want to change your sleep temperature, you only need to change the "sleep comfort setting." No need to modify the schedule for every day of the week. What I love is the air quality sensor and real-time data. One example: one chart shows the trend of inside, outside, and set temperature. It's actionable data to decide to keep the system on or turn off the system and open the windows. I also like that it runs the fan for a few minutes after shutting down the AC. My Nest Gen2 did not do that. What I'm not happy with, which may or may not be an issue for you, is automatic home/away based on phone location. This worked flawlessly and independently with Nest on iPhone and Android. If you have an iPhone, you need a "HomeKit" setup (HomePod or HomePod mini or 4th generation Apple TV). iPad may work but is no longer recommended. Without one of these devices, Ecobee will not automatically go into away mode when your phone leaves the house or return to home mode when you return. This is frustrating because I wasn't expecting to have to buy other devices. If you use Android, you cannot set the Ecobee into away mode when the phone leaves the home. You also cannot create automation routines in Goole Home to change the Ecobee comfort setting (the great feature I mentioned above). You can set temperature or set it to cool, heat, or off. For example, you cannot set a routine of saying "Time for bed" and it triggers your Ecobee "sleep comfort setting." You need to set the temperature in your routine, which defeats the purpose of the one stop "comfort setting." I spent hours figuring these things out, because it didn't seem logical for them not to work. That being said, I am happy with the purchase overall. Granted, I may become annoyed over time with having to set an expensive "smart thermostat" into home/away mode only schedule or manually. I'm hoping the ability to automatically go into home/away mode based on phone location and the ability to set up Android automation with "comfort settings" comes without other device requirements.

Easy to use and understand. The programmable app is great.

I've had this thermostat for two weeks now and like its ease of set-up, adjustment and temp scheduling.

I have had my ecobee for a week now and it has been working great. It has a lot of information and it has been keeping my 2 story home cooler than before.

Purchased the ecobee Premium thermostat thru the Consumers Energy program. First one received was installed and did not work at all, ecobee tech on phone did all he could only to end in a nonfunctioning thermostat. Replacement installation was quite easy again. Just follow exactly what to do as shown on your phone installation guide. Everything worked and is easy to set, revise, etc. Only thing I wish it would also do is to monitor the time the filter is installed and recommend a filter change reminder on screen. Maybe that would be a great software update, please??? But all in all, pretty easy install and easy to use and modify as you wish either from the display or the app on the phone. Thanks Consumers Energy and ecobee.

Easy to follow settings and efficient and reliable readings.

almost 3 weeks of use no problems easy to read display

It was easy to set up following the instructions. I appreciate it can sense when there is activity requiring cooling and when it can save me the running the cooling.

I've had this ecobee for a short time and have learned just enough to reliably cool or heat the home. Maybe sometime in the future I'll be interested in the Comfort settings, etc. but for now I'm satisfied with the reliable heat and cold. Possibly 'pearls among swine' sort of thing.

I'm very please with the ecobee thermostat. It's very intuitive. And being wifi enabled makes it so easy to manage & control with the iPhone app; no matter when I'm home or somewhere else. Only problem I haven't solved is when humidity hits a certain level (71%) it turns the AC on no matter what it's set to. So if I set it to 80 at night so I can open windows and skylight to cool the house overnight, if it hits that humidity level the AC comes on with the house opened up!! I'd love to know how to get around that problem!

I have had this thermostat for about 2 weeks. Easy to set-up and adjust

I recently bought a new home and added two ecobee smart thermostats to control my dual zone HVAC. Installation was simple and straightforward and setting them up on my WiFi and connecting to my energy company was super simple. Controlling them through the app and adjusting them to my schedule has been very easy and intuitive. I couldn’t have asked for a more streamless addition to my smarthome setup.

I have had this Ecobee for about a month and it works great! I had an older model for 3 years that constantly got disconnected from the WiFi. After calling so many times Ecobee sent me a new one and I haven’t had any issues with this one. I like the app feature so you can regulate your temperature when not home or anytime. So far so good!

Works well, has some nice features that other thermostats may or may not offer. Could use a little clearer and better installation guidance. Difficult in getting assistance over the phone.

Very nice thermostat. Senses when we are not there and adjusts accordingly. Senses air quality and even tells us the weather forecast. If it only tied my shoes lol

Set up and monitoring is very simple. Also like that it can be controlled through my phone at any time of the day.

I have had an Ecobee for approx 1-1/2 years, worked great, even downloaded the suggested changes. It does work hard to save you money. I have just upgraded to a newer model, as the pins in the rear fell apart when removed for painting.

I started with an ecobee3 10 years ago and now had to upgrade because of our new high efficiency heat pump replacing a 15 years old broken one. It was very easy to wire and setup the new ecobee Premium. Work really well right out of the box.