Ecobee SmartThermostat with Voice Control, Black

Amazing product

Completely avoid this horrible product !It’s insanely complicated, and keeps changing functions on its ownWhat a waste of money !

Like: The design and built qualityDislike : The product designed only for North America, it will not work in middle east.You can use as normal thermostat. That's it.

It is better to get a professional to set it up, not as easy as it shows.Till now it is lying on the counter without it being installed.

Easy to install after I found that I had the 5th wire to put on the c terminal! Love the voice feature! Temps for outside & control from anywhere on our iPhones.

So I have been turning my home slowly into a smart home over the past 3 years with smart switches, bulbs, plugs, locks and a Wink Hub 2 to help them all work together. I have avoided thermostat's because I was concerned about others in my house not knowing how to use them.I bought a Nest thermostat about a year ago and it just didn't operate the system I bought it for correctly, ever. I was always adjusting it up or down constantly; not really what you want to do if you are looking to save energy.So I looked at Ecobee. I have heard the problems with the Ecobee 3 working with Alexa or being sub-par in its Alexa integration so I held off. Then they came out with this "Smart Thermostat" with full Alexa integration, better speaker, etc., so I decided to try it.My house is large, I have 4010 square feet, 2 furnace/ac setups and 3 zones. I tried the Ecobee Smart Thermostat on the largest, single zone section of the house for a week. To say installation was a breeze is unacceptable; it was done within 30 minutes, including removing the old stat and installing the new one (10 mins), I had it configured to work with my newly installed app in another 10 minutes. Schedule was done in the last 10 minutes.Its very intuitive to use, simple on the main screen where anyone can simply look and see what it is set to, what the current room temp is and current humidity reading; that's it. If you want to change the temp its a simple slide bar on the right side of screen.While it is simple enough for anyone to change it has many features in the menu and app to let you drill into setting up the optimal schedule, limiting ranges that people can change the temp, as well as reviewing trends in your usage. Just an overall excellent product, well made and very thoughtful interface.I like it so much I bought 2 more for the other 2 zones which sit on the same furnace/ac unit and has a zone board with 2 electrically operated baffles, making these a bit more difficult to install. Also, one of these did not have a G or C-wire.I decided for these 2 additional stats I would go with the Ecobee 3 lite Pro since I wasn't worried about talking to it directly (yet they both still function through Alexa, allowing you to change their temps or get info from them through Alexa using one of my other Alexa devices in the house).I had to work with the Ecobee support team to figure out how to set these up correctly. The only thing I had to do special is make sure I wired up the G and C wires in the zone board at the appropriate terminals and then connect them to the stat as normal. This was made easier since the wires were actually there just not being used in the old stat or the zone board for some unknown reason.All in all, my house is now fully smart when it comes to the thermostats now and I am already noticing the temperatures are more consistent with the stat readings. I fully expect to start saving money with these things quickly. I am glad I went with Ecobee instead of Nest, including with all the recent talk about Nest moving away from Google Assistant (which I also have in the house).Hope this helps.

Alexa is but weak on speaker but everything else brilliant

This product is everything they say and more. I love how it senses what room you are in (for any rooms other than the one the thermostat is in you would need the sensors, you get one with the thermostat but it helps if you can have one in each room) and it will focus on that room and keeping it at your set comfort level. It has Alexa built in which is wonderful. You can control everything with voice but to get all you can out of that, install the Ecobee app on your mobile device. This thermostat can not only detect which room you are in, but also if you leave the house and will enter AWAY mode and keep it at the temperature you set for when you aren't home. It automatically re-enters HOME mode when you get home. Once you get your comfort settings input into the device, you never have to do anything again. It will automatically change to your Settings (defaults are HOME, AWAY, and SLEEP but you can ceate other categories such as VACATION or whatever you need or want) and you never have to ever intervene. But if you desire, you can temporarily if needed (say you come in freezing and want to heat up fast) change the temperature of comfort settings by voice command. You can have it set ahead of time to keep the new temporary setting for a certain amount of time or until the next setting was scheduled to take over. You get to set what times to start and end SLEEP mode. The face is not flashy but has everything you need and more right up front. You have on the screen temp, humidity, Weather forecast, Menu, Settings for the Thermostat, Enable/Disable microphone so you turn off the microphone that lets you talk to the Alexa add-on and thus if you have another Alexa close they won't both vie for your attention.Let me tell you something. Installation is a breeze. If you know anything about working with HVAC or just electronics you should be able to do this totally on your own. If you don't know jack about any of it, have no fear. Their customer support has got to receive 5 of 5 stars. The technician that helped me took me from checking to see if it was compatible with my system ( I have a very old system. I have a gas furnace for just the heat and a heat pump system for A/C and it ends up that with the power strip they provided with this thermostat had to be installed to make it compatible) to completion and even went so far as to run tests with me to ensure it was working perfectly. He was on the phone with me for 2 hours and I had to send him a lot of photos by text so he could see what he was working with , but once he knew, we flew through the rest of the installation. I have had it about 6 weeks and it is everything they say and more. I do recommend getting a Room Sensor for every room. (Get the ones like the one that comes with it as it is more "Intelligent" than any others.) This way the Ecobee can maintain the comfort level for whatever room you are in. Buy it, you will love it!

Wifi feature is great, can be checked from anywhere in the world. Programming is also good and easy to program. Technical support is also very good.