Hi.
My house has two thermostat zones.
I upgraded one to Ecobee for the wifi control. It has one remote sensor.
Beestat is a great addition to analyze the data.
I might upgrade the second zone to an Ecobee. But it’s not super important. Probably I’d put in two more remote sensors.
I did a bit of research but am unclear how Ecobee’s app and Beestat integrate two Ecobee thermostats in one house.
What “seemlessly” integrates for control and analysis/reports?
What doesn’t work out that great, or is annoying, for the two apps when there are two thermostats on the same floor of a house.
If this has been answered elsewhere, I’ll appreciate a link. Thanks.
Ecobee lets you set up homes and you can group both zones into one home. I’m not sure what features they have related to multi-zone systems.
Beestat will allow you to switch between thermostats. They are mostly independent, but a few places have combined views of the data. It’s not really optimized for that situation, but it works well enough.
While Ecobee allows you to assign two thermostats to a home, they don’t interact with each other. As with beestat, their reports are thermostat specific.
As a follow-up, I did install the second EcoBee thermostat. And the data is pouring in. Thanks to beestat, I’m not limited to EcoBee’s hamstrung data presentation.
It’s great to have data to see how poorly (ok, suboptimally) designed this two-thermostat 20-zone manifold system is.
One zone can influence the other thermostat by several degrees. They are just too close.
Now, though, with two remote sensors placed where we actually sit and sleep [which isn’t in hallways :-)] that shortfall can be somewhat addressed.
The harder problem though is the manifolds are also just too close together. Only about 15 feet apart. These two floor sites have the highest concentration of heat into the floor where all the hottest water enters the slab. And they are both somewhat centrally located along the house long axis. This all makes the non-uniformity worse. And so far, tweaking the manifold valves can’t overcome it. ::Rant Off::
Now… if only… :-)… all four temp values could be on the same beestat graph or even the same page to save me a lot of bouncing between screens and doing mental memory gymnastics.
