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> On Nov 26, 2019, at 5:12 AM, David Coudron <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > We have been running Ecobee for over four years at our place. We have a > fairly complicated setup due to a Geo Thermal heating system, forced air and > in floor heat, and two zones in the house. We also have a third, independent > fan coil HVAC unit in the garage that heats and cools the garage. What we > have found over the years is that the thermostats are very easy to set up as > mentioned earlier in this thread. However, the real challenge is the wiring > compatibility between your HVAC control equipment and the thermostat. > Commercial may be different, but I think it is basically the same as > residential and if each thermostat controls a unique piece of HVAC, things > are likely going to be pretty simple. However, if each thermostat controls > a zone on a shared piece of HVAC, or two or three thermostats control a > single HVAC, you need to make sure you know what thermostat wiring your zone > controller equipment is looking for. Also, the zone controller can control > things like heat stages if you have more than one stage (Geo is very well > know for this, but other heat pump HVAC equipment also have more than one > stage) or whether you want the thermostat to control stages. Most smart > thermostats like Ecobee and Nest are fully capable of controlling stages. > Once you know that you have the correct wiring compatibility (for example we > eventually switched our zone controller because it wanted the old mechanical > thermostat with separate O and B wiring configuration), configuring the > Ecobee is pretty simple. You will want to set a master thermostat so that > you don’t have one thermo in heat mode and one in cooling mode, they will > just fight each other. This is quite straight forward when using most zone > controllers, you simply hook the one you want to be the master mode thermo to > the correct connectors on the zone controller. If each thermo is > controlling unique and separate HVAC equipment, this would have to be done > through the Ecobee or Nest account, (IE configured in the thermo itself). > > No matter what, take pictures of how things are hooked up before starting, > and don’t throw anything away until well after you are convinced it is > working well. In fact, I would recommend going through a heating and > cooling season before getting rid of anything depending on where you are at. > Also, most HVAC professionals will know one or two automation platforms, > but won’t want to get involved with ones they aren’t familiar with. They > can waste way too much time figuring out the nuances of some small problems. > Assume that if you start this project, you will be on your own, but I > wouldn’t let that steer you away from trying. Simple things like a volt > meter to test which wire is energized on heat and cool calls from the thermo > go a long way into figuring out how things are working. > > Once you deal with the wiring, it works very well and you can get a some > great reporting from the thermostat for things like how long did the thermo > call for heat before the call was satisfied, how long did it run in each > stage, how long did it run compared to outside temps, etc. > > Let me know if you want more specifics, I ended up getting much deeper in the > weeds than I expected on this when putting in the Geo Thermal, but glad that > I spent the time as it works really well. > > Regards, > > David Coudron > > > From: AF <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Jason McKemie > Sent: Monday, November 25, 2019 11:41 PM > To: AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Building automation > > The basic setup with nest is just logging the devices into your account. > Most of the automation is done automatically, obviously there is > configuration you can change, but it isn't necessary for operation. > > On Mon, Nov 25, 2019 at 11:12 PM CBB - Jay Fuller <[email protected]> > wrote: > > Learn more...i guess lol > > Sent from my smartphone > > ----- Reply message ----- > From: "Jason McKemie" <[email protected]> > To: "AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group" <[email protected]> > Subject: [AFMUG] Building automation > Date: Mon, Nov 25, 2019 10:08 PM > > What are you wanting to do? It's dead simple with nest. > > On Monday, November 25, 2019, CBB - Jay Fuller <[email protected]> > wrote: > > Any good YouTube videos to get started on home automation with nest? > > Sent from my smartphone > > ----- Reply message ----- > From: "Darin Steffl" <[email protected]> > To: "AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group" <[email protected]> > Subject: [AFMUG] Building automation > Date: Mon, Nov 25, 2019 8:32 PM > > I'm a Nest fan but haven't used ecobee. Google owns nest and ecobee would be > the one to be acquired between these two. > > Also, $5600 seems very high for 11 thermostats. Are there more parts to it > that I'm missing? > > On Mon, Nov 25, 2019, 7:56 PM Nate Burke <[email protected]> wrote: > One of the young whippersnappers at an organization I work with is all > gung-ho on replacing all 11 thermostats in the building (Boiler with > multiple zones, and multiple RTU's) with ecobee thermostats that can be > remotely controlled and scheduled. Total price for everything is > running about $5600 (parts only) He's worked with ecobee before, so he > really likes it. > > Has anyone worked with ecobee before? Are there similar systems to > compare it to? The Goal is to allow the office to control/schedule the > thermostats based on room usage. We found one room that was set to 90 > over the weekend last week. I'm concerned that ecobee would be bought, > merged into someone else, and you suddenly have nice wall mounted > thermostats that can't be remotely managed anymore because the cloud > went away. > > -- > AF mailing list > [email protected] > http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com > -- > AF mailing list > [email protected] > http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com > -- > AF mailing list > [email protected] > http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com
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