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Re:Smart thermostats inadvertently strain electric power grids by bedast on Thursday July 14, 2022 @04:25PM (#32101007)
I have an ecobee and keep it in a fairly dumb scheduling mode. My primary use, as of now, is to integrate with home assistant so I can have data at hand to make future decisions on energy and system usage.

I tried something similar with Nest but holy crap is it a pain in the butt to integrate with home assistant, and keep the integration functioning.

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Re:Smart thermostats inadvertently strain electric power grids by evanreichard on Thursday July 14, 2022 @04:34PM (#32101105)
> [...] integrate with home assistant so I can have data at hand to make future decisions on energy and system usage

This is actually what I've been doing. I haven't done anything actionable with the data yet, though. Beestat [0] has some great data break downs as well.

On a similar note: My house is only a single zone and I've been manually adjusting the dampers when fall / spring come around. When I find some time, I want to try to build something that will automatically adjust the dampers based on where I am in the house to create a pseudo multi zone setup with Home Assistant.

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[0] https://beestat.io/

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