The new unit I am moving into has four individual thermostats controlling an electric radiator each. I am not keen on purchasing three new ecobees for this new setup.
I am wondering if anyone has ideas on some less expensive thermostats that I could somehow control based on ecobee settings and motion sensors.
-If ecobee is on, and a room is sensed as occupied, turn on thermostat.
If ecobee is off, turn off all generic thermostats
Maybe some adjustments based on ecobee home/away modes. I haven’t thought this through yet.
I’m not an expert in Z-wave thermostats as I mainly use ecobee at my home.
Look up for feedback in the ST community forum on the CT-100 and GoControl thermostats.
You can ask @RBoy for any good z-wave thermostats. He’s created good DTH for z-wave thermostats as well!
P.S. EcobeeSetZoneWithSchedule requires MyEcobee device as a prerequisites as it takes advantage of the advanced & comprehensive integration I’ve built with SmartThings. For more details, refer to
Depending on your electric radiator, you may also want to look into the Stelpro. I have it at home to control electric baseboards in my basement and it works very well.
RBoy
(www.rboyapps.com - Making SmartThings Easy!)
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The CT-101 and CT-100 are xcellent thermostats. The stock device handler works well for basic programming if you want some advanced features you can check out the Enhanced Z Wave thermostat device handler.
There is a new z wave plus version of the CT thermostat that’s out that you can purchase from ZooZ @TheSmartestHouse