Smart thermostats do way more than just set the temperature: that’s just table stakes and of course easy. Off the top of my head the ecobee will:

• Set the temperature also taking the room’s humidity into account

• Communicate with sensors throughout your house

• Can change things via the Internet in case you accidentally forget to set it to a better temperature when you’ll be gone for a few days

• Tweak your schedule based on demand

I’m probably missing things, but they’re actually pretty useful, and I’m someone who thinks most IoT is shit.

A smart thermostat is the only “smart device” I have in my home (ecobee). I figure it actually is better than something I could design in a week so it seemed worth it. Do you know of an actually competitive open hardware/open source solution?

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