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General Category => Amazon Echo Discussion => Topic started by: MikeNY on April 14, 2016, 07:43:08 pm
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Subscribe to Consumer Reports magazine, and you will likely get your answer.
Subscribers also have full access to their website chock full of past articles and product evaluations.
Non-subscribers can read a lot (but not all) of the current articles.
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I do now, but they don't test everything and some of their evaluations are subjective.
I just wanted to add: Consumer Reports reviews the smart home, says no to Nest and is meh on Hue
I don't know about the Nest, but CR's main gripe with Hue is the cost, which is a legitimate point.
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I have 2 Ecobee3s that I must say I've been pretty happy with so far. I've only had them for just under 1 year so I can't evaluate their long-term reliability yet, but they were easy to install and configure, and both the Android app and web interface work well.
My daughter has a Nest thermostat that she got for free from her electricity provider about 8 months ago. She's not what you'd call a technology power-user, but she hasn't had any complaints about it yet. What sort of problems do you have with yours?
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I have the honeywell thermostat and still waiting on amazon echo to support it directly. They said by the end of march... I am using honeywell because I do not have a c wire and it was the only one that I found at the time that I can run a wire to a wall outlet.
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All you have to do is provide a "C" wire by adding a 24 volt power supply. It's easy.. then you too can bang your head on the wall with a NEST.
The Ecobee3 even includes what they call a "Power Extender Kit" for that very purpose.
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at the time I purchased the honeywell, there was not much info out there about c-wire replacements. The only one I could find anything about was honeywell so I went with them. This was several years ago.
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Does your Honeywell use batteries to compensate for the lack of a "C"?
at the time I purchased the honeywell, there was not much info out there about c-wire replacements. The only one I could find anything about was honeywell so I went with them. This was several years ago.
as I said in my original post, I had to run a wire from it to the wall outlet, so no batteries.
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Oh right.. I remember now.. sorry. I'm old.. :(
Does your Honeywell use batteries to compensate for the lack of a "C"?
at the time I purchased the honeywell, there was not much info out there about c-wire replacements. The only one I could find anything about was honeywell so I went with them. This was several years ago.
as I said in my original post, I had to run a wire from it to the wall outlet, so no batteries.
It happens to me all the time. Sometimes my memory gets so bad, I forget what I read in a previous paragraph :-)