SmartApp for setting your Ecobee Heat/Cool/Auto Mode based on outside temperature. This allows you to target a more exact indoor temperature in Heat or Cool mode when possible, while automatically resorting to Auto mode (with an Ecobee-mandated differential of 2 degrees between heating and cooling t…

@JustinL - Very nice! May I merge this into my Suite as another Helper App? You clearly built it such that it is an easy merge. And one recommendation: although you utilize the weatherTemperature as provided by the thermostat, this is notoriously a poor data source - it often provides a weather v…

Yeah, if you do a little digging in the Ecobee API, you can find out which location is being used for the weatherData. For me, it’s a small airport about 13 miles away, in a valley behind a large hilly range from my home, where the temperature and the weather can be drastically different than at my …

Looking good so far, Barry. Do you think ping-pong between modes will be a problem though? I don’t know what sort of filtering different temperature sources use to smooth the temperature reporting. One way to avoid ping-pong, i think, would be to allow there to be a gap in the thresholds.

[RELEASE] Set Ecobee Heat/Cool/Auto Mode Based on Outside Temperature

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JustinL February 14, 2018, 7:36pm 3

Sure. Didn’t know that about the quality of the ecobee-provided temperature. Sounds like a good idea to provide some flexibility in temperature source.

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[RELEASE] Set Ecobee Heat/Cool/Auto Mode Based on Outside Temperature

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