Introducing The Brand New Ecobee 6 Premium
The best smart thermostat for your home is 2023 is the Ecobee 6, hands down. With all of the features available and the customer support is so good you have to buy this for your air conditioning and heating system. Ecobee was the first Wifi thermostat available for the home. Ecobee has a 0 waste program that involves old thermostats that were bad or returned for some reason. They take the old thermostats and completely rebuild them into new units. No thermostats from Ecobee go into the landfill. It cost almost as much as using new materials but it is the principal here that matters. Ecobee’s new Premium thermostat is now capable of being your smart home hub for all of your smart home devices. The Ecobee 6 Premium works with all smart speakers and other devices, over 80% on the market.
The sensors that are added to the thermostat in order to read the temperature in other areas of the home, are a great feature. This allows for a few different options that would make your home more comfortable and efficient. The thermostat can measure the temperature from the sensor and judge if someone is in that room. If so you can have the air conditioning or heating unit run until the room with the sensor gets to the setpoint. Another option is that you can set it to make an average between the sensor in the room where you are and the thermostat in the hall. Alternatively you can make it read the temp from the thermostat and the sensor and always average the temp between them, or make the sensor the main temperature sensing point and always run until the sensor is satisfied. So if you have your thermostat upstairs and the sensor downstairs you can have it measure temperature from downstairs to turn the air conditioning or heater on and off.
The room sensors also have a new feature that was not on the original version of the sensors. The old sensors had an infrared part in it and the new ones now come with radar. The main difference is that the old version would send out a cone shaped field of view, while the radar has a 180 degree field of view. Which means you can put the new sensors against the wall and cover almost the entire room. When you pass by the sensor it charges a small battery type of part. The more you move in front of the sensor the faster the battery charges. When it is fully charged somewhere between 15 and 45 minutes, you will be telling the thermostat that, yes i am in this room and I am going to be staying here for a while.
By activating the Eco+ feature your thermostat can save you up to 26% on your heating cooling cost compared to setting the temperature at 72 degrees all the time. This is a great feature that is something that goes a long way with a homeowner. This means you can set your thermostat to 72 and turn on the Eco+ feature and save 26% on your utility cost. On top of that programming the schedule to run when your home and run less when your not, gains even more savings on your air conditioning and heating utility cost.
The Ecobee 6 Premium is also voice activated. This can be set up with the Google smart speaker or the Alexa smart speaker to act as another smart speaker. Play music, turn on and off connected smart home devices and more from your thermostat. With so many features available through the smart speakers you really have no end to what you can do from your thermostat now.
The Ecobee 6 Premium also comes with a humidity sensor at the thermostat. This allows you to measure the humidity but it also comes with wire terminals for a hardwired humidistat or ventilator. The Ecobee 6 Premium also comes with a function called Feels Like, which will sense the humidity and if it is low it will run the air conditioning unit less, if it is high it will run more. The main thermostat also has a sensor that detects indoor air quality or IAQ. This is done by detecting VOC’s and CO at the main thermostat.
This is really the best thermostat, between the instant savings of the Eco+ function and the addition of room sensors. The programing on this thermostat is really next generation. The Feels Like function and the IAQ monitoring are all next level technology. We are glad to install Ecobee 6 Premium in all of our customers homes, to make sure they get every penny out of their air conditioning and heating system from now until the end of time. When you get an Ecobee 6 Premium from SHR A/C & Heating you get a 5 year parts warranty. Remember if you purchase this thermostat online you only get a 3 year warranty on parts. Please call us today to start making your home into the most efficient on the block.
