What Thermostats Besides the Nest Do You All Use?

[yvesracine]

Hello,

There are many reasons why one may want to have a “smarter” thermostat with scheduling capabilities…

This topic has been covered several times in other threads.

Amongst others, you may want to keep your cooling/heating/fan scheduling outside of your HA platform for this reason:

Scheduler and Polling quits after some minutes, hours, or days

I have a SmartApp that brightens lights in a zone when there is motion or a door opens. It dims the lights after a given timeout period. I have 6 instances of the app on one hub, (6 different lighting zones), and 8 on another hub, in another building. When the app initializes, it starts the scheduler to run a scheduleCheck() function every minute, to turn off lights, when appropriate. It was working for months. Then it stopped dimming reliably. I have determined that the scheduleCheck() function stops running as scheduled. I have also noticed that it now usually schedules at the top of the minute, i.e., the seconds are zero. This did not used to be the case. And the time between scheduled calls can be 1, 2, or 3 minutes. I have just installed a workaround, in which I re-initializ…

See my last post about it here for more details:

Which Thermostat has the best SmartThings Integration?

Pretty sure ST is also now supporting the ZEN thermostat. I had two ecobees in my house, they were too much for my needs when looking to control via ST. In the end many of the great features they have made it difficult to control exclusively via ST, they were too capable. I’ve since switched to a PEQ (centralite) in the garage and a ZEN in the house, these are completely controlled via ST and automatic mode changes. I do not have a need or desire for the thermostats to have or manage their own schedules, and ecobees web analytics and data collection pages while very good weren’t a requirement on my end.

Regards.