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Hi,

Please refer to the ST community wiki about how to get tips from My Ecobee device

http://thingsthataresmart.wiki/index.php?title=EcobeeGetTips

To answer your specific questions:

  • The daily/weekly/monthly stats are used to get more pertinent tips for your location
  • When applicable, the stats will be used to generate some tips based on some trend analysis, example: the outdoor temperature has been constant, but yet your daily runtime stats( A/C, Furnance, 1-2 staging components) have increased compared to the day before’s runtime stats or your weekly runtime stats or your monthly runtime stats.
  • If the outdoor temperature has not been constant in the period (based on some standard derivation formula), of course, the stats will not be relevant for generating tips at your location.
  • The tips can be generated through the ecobeeGetTips smartapp or by interacting with Ask Alexa with the “give tip” or “play tip” verbal commands.

N.B. You’d need to update your list of operators, params, and utterances to be able to use the new verbal “tips” commands in Ask Alexa. Please refer to the link below for more details on how to update Ask Alexa (v2.1.3a and higher is required):

There is also a specific section about My Ecobee “tips” commands available under the ST community wiki.

http://thingsthataresmart.wiki/index.php?title=Ask_Alexa#My_Ecobee_Tips

P.S. The main idea is to get relevant tips for your location at a given time based on indoor/outdoor metrics and observations. If you do not have tips at a specific moment, try again later when indoor/outdoor conditions have changed.

Regards.

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