New 2025 ecobee Smart Thermostat Essential - Energy Star Certified Programmable Wi-Fi Thermostat - Works with Siri, Alexa, and Google Assistant (Supports Only 1 Fan Speed)

Great thermostat! Easy to install, even with my not having a C wire coming out to my thermostat. There was a kid I had to buy, but very easy to get it going. My previous thermostat was a nest, first GEN. It received a firmware update that stopped it from being allowed to talk to my phone and also caused it to start sending error codes to my furnace. This was confirmed by a technician at my home. I was worried that I’d have to buy a new furnace that I had something major wrong, but it was just the firmware update on my old nest thermostat. This ecobee is wonderful! Also, from everything I can tell it sounds like ecobee does not send firmware update updates that disable the thermostats for any generation thermostat. I have an HVAC system with heat air and fan. Everything works great! I love that. It works well with Alexa too.

We bought this thermostat because we moved into a two-story house and I wanted to be able to control the temperature from the upstairs bedroom. Our thermostat controller is located downstairs. This works perfectly. While I am upstairs, I can control the temperature using my smart phone and it is so easy to use. Installation was not difficult. This is a quality product, I love the look of it, it's sleek and modern and It is well-made with a good price point, and I highly recommend it.

I bought this after Google lobotomized my Nest thermostat late last year. Happy they did, because I like the Ecobee better - similar ease of use but more features. I won't be going back to the Nest. My Nest used 4 wires, and the Ecobee needs 5 (it needs the C terminal connected). Ecobee sells a wiring kit as a fix for this if you only have 4 wires, however before you spend money on that, check to see if your thermostat cable has extra conductors. The wire in my 30+ year old house has 8 conductors, 4 unused, so I was able to connect an unused conductor to the C terminal on the Ecobee, and splice it down at the furnace control board. An easy fix that saved some money.

The thermostat works great, gotta tweak a few settings, otherwise if it is cold it alerts you that Aux heat has run for 3+ hours in 24 hours. And make sure it is installed correctly if you have a heat pump.

Works awesome with Alexa, it’s really nice being able to easily set schedules and change the temperature with your voice. The install was easy for what it was, took about 15 minutes. Using the app was easy too and connecting to Wi-Fi was easy. Great value for price and what its capabilities are. I should have bought one of these a long time ago!