ecobee3 First Look and Unboxing Video
I’m still tinkering with the new ecobee3 smart thermostat, and will have a full review posted soon. In the meantime, you can check out my initial reaction in this unboxing video (in TWO parts): Part 1:...
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ecobee 3 Review
In 2009, Toronto-based ecobee released the very first “smart” thermostat and called it, not surprisingly, the “ecobee Smart” (see my original review of the Smart from 2010). Since then, they’ve...
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How to Install an ecobee3 Smart Thermostat
So you got your hands on an ecobee3 smart thermostat, and instead of reading through the installation manual (which is actually pretty good), you came to the Internet to figure out how to install your...
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Upgrade Install Guide: ecobee original Smart Thermostat to ecobee3
When I first received an ecobee3 smart thermostat for review, I wrote a guide to installing an ecobee3 for first-time ecobee users. This post, by contrast, is for ecobee old-timers. I’ll walk through...
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First Look: ecobee3 Web-based Home IQ Charts
Sir Francis Bacon is commonly credited for coining the phrase “scientia potentia est” — Latin for “knowledge is power.” Though one might argue that, instead, control is power, particularly in the...
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ecobee3 Review Followup: Two Month Update
My original ecobee3 review is now two months old, so I decided a “here’s how things are going two months later” post might be in order. Over the past two months, I’ve received numerous questions (both...
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Review: ecobee3 HomeKit-enabled Thermostat
Last year, when the ecobee3 smart thermostat was announced, I published a preview, then a “first look” and unboxing video, followed soon after by the very first review of the ecobee3. I followed those...
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Review: Lux GEO WiFi Thermostat
Thermostats have come a long way since the days of the gold-colored round Honeywell dial thermostats at your grandma’s house. Ecobee launched the first “smart” thermostat in 2007, but others like...
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Review: ecobee3 Lite
Are you wanting to get on the smart thermostat bandwagon, but aren’t sure if it’s worth the $249 price tag of the full-featured models like the ecobee3 and Nest? Then has ecobee got a deal for you....
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ecobee4 Smart Thermostat Review
Today is the official launch of the ecobee4 smart thermostat: the latest in what’s now a long(ish) line of WiFi thermostats from the eponymous Toronto-based ecobee Inc. Whenever ecobee releases an even...
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