What do you want that it doesn't have? I control my Ecobee all the time with Siri, and I also have a "nearly home" recipe that integrates an Ecobee temperature change with a lighting change. Seems pretty integrated to me.
Well, these are the things I’ve seen. YMMV of course.
- Comfort profiles are not actually integrated. When you add a comfort profile to a scene it just copies the high/low temps in. If you change that comfort profile the scene is either not updated or updated very unreliably (I’m pretty sure it’s not at all though)
- Telling Siri to set a specific temperature and then actually checking the thermostat nearly always shows a different temperature, off by a couple of degrees
- The motion sensors are WAY too slow to be used as triggers.
- Actually adding comfort profiles to scenes is incredibly unreliable. If I add one in, quit the app and go back to look it’s 50/50 as to whether it will actually be there.
- Finally, and this one is the worst of all, the absolute deal breaker for me, profiles set by HomeKit scenes hold indefinitely and do not respect the thermostat setting of “until next schedule change” the way setting something by any other method (at the thermostat or using the ecobee app). This breaks auto-away and, for me, completely rules out using it at all.
There were others that I can’t think of, off the top of my head.
Now, that’s not to say Ecobee is horrible in general. It’s actually a great little thing.
- Love the sensors. I have a profile that only takes into account the bedroom temperature for an hour before we sleep (since I don’t care what the temp is anywhere else at that point)
- The “smart” features work really well. It’s very good at predicting how long it will take to reach a target temperature, even with varying conditions, and hitting that temperature pretty much not a moment too soon. Very efficient.
- The stats and reports available are really good and provide a lot of insight and comfort that it’s doing the right thing.
