what would be proper setting for thermostat

Gotta balance budget, personal preference, and comfort. I WFH so I'm home all the time.

In the summer I cool down to 24.5 during the work day and 22.5 at night (I can't sleep if I'm hot).

In the winter I heat up to 25.5 during the work day and up to 20 at night.

I get called crazy for keeping the house so warm but both me and my GF like it warm, and our house is small. In the winter my gas bill is around $100 and in the summer my electricity bill is around $90. When I tried adjusting it the difference between comfortable and uncomfortable is like $20 a month, so I'd rather be comfortable.

i prefer to turn my AC on and off manually, i found if it automate it i had days where it was heating or cooling when i didnt want it to.

the poster above wow, i wouldnt be able to live at your house.

my house is 21 in the winter, and at night i like it 19 degrees in the summer.

22.5 i would be in bed sweating.

Hot & Cold comfort is ALL personal preference
Count yourself lucky if you & your partner even agree
Seems to me in most relationships
Someone is always cold blooded
While the other person is forever too hot

So it’s a challenge to find a happy medium

We tend to keep our ecobee set at 72 F * in the winter when we are home
And 68 F at night when we are asleep
If we are away any length of time … we set it lower than 68 F

* LOL yes we are old school and opted for the Fahrenheit settings, cuz they are closer together … so more definition

Summer … it sits anywhere between 76 F and 80+ F = OFF as far as the AC is concerned
Living in Eastern Ontario we are fortunate to enjoy a good breeze most days
So don’t even have to run the AC every day
And rarely overnight
We just open the Windows

Ecobee’s need to be programmed separately for Summer & Winter
And then you got to change over seasonally
Lots of folks get confused by this element I think
And end up just getting one season properly programmed
And then end up going manual
(Aka always set on one temp) for the other half of the year
That’s not a good use of your Ecobees features
Or cost savings

READ the manual
TAKE THE TIME NEEDED to program & set up
As well as UNDERSTAND the features

Cost savings are definitely good / worthwhile
When you can set your 7 days up with different dedicated time & temp settings

OP, in order to use the Ecobee effectively and efficiently, there are a few things you need to do:

1. Invest in additional remote sensors and put them throughout the house. They are key in making your whole house comfortable by allowing Ecobee to know which rooms/areas are occupied, and in those occupied room/areas, let Ecobee average out the temperatures and achieve a happy medium. This would prevent 2nd floor rooms to get too hot in the summer and too cold in the winter. With just the main Ecobee and just one remote sensor, the system won't have enough information about all the areas of your house to sense which rooms are occupied and which to include for the temperature averaging.

2. Link your Ecobee to the geofencing feature of Homekit, SmartThings, and other home automation platforms. That way, when you leave the house, Ecobee will know for sure that you've left and will put the comfort mode to Away, thus giving you some savings when you are not in the house. It has the Smart Home & Away feature, which relies on the remote sensors, which is another reason to put enough of them around the house for Ecobee to know if you're home or not.

rvs007 wrote: ↑ OP, in order to use the Ecobee effectively and efficiently, there are a few things you need to do:

1. Invest in additional remote sensors and put them throughout the house. They are key in making your whole house comfortable by allowing Ecobee to know which rooms/areas are occupied, and in those occupied room/areas, let Ecobee average out the temperatures and achieve a happy medium. This would prevent 2nd floor rooms to get too hot in the summer and too cold in the winter. With just the main Ecobee and just one remote sensor, the system won't have enough information about all the areas of your house to sense which rooms are occupied and which to include for the temperature averaging.

2. Link your Ecobee to the geofencing feature of Homekit, SmartThings, and other home automation platforms. That way, when you leave the house, Ecobee will know for sure that you've left and will put the comfort mode to Away, thus giving you some savings when you are not in the house. It has the Smart Home & Away feature, which relies on the remote sensors, which is another reason to put enough of them around the house for Ecobee to know if you're home or not.

This is all good info

But tends to truly only work if you live in a newer built home

The older the house … the less the sensors perform well … cuz there is often too great a difference between temps say on the main floor, the top floor, and the basement due to construction & insulation issues

In which case, you can do without the added cost of the sensors (or extra sensors) and just focus on getting the main floor settings right around the clock, with perhaps some bursts of heat or ac as needed prior to sleep / getting up daily

rocking23nf wrote: ↑ i prefer to turn my AC on and off manually, i found if it automate it i had days where it was heating or cooling when i didnt want it to.

the poster above wow, i wouldnt be able to live at your house.

my house is 21 in the winter, and at night i like it 19 degrees in the summer.

22.5 i would be in bed sweating.

Haha I know, luckily my house is a small bungalow so its not that expensive to keep warm in the winter. Extra lucky that my GF likes the same temp range as I do so no fighting over the settings.

You can set which sensors are used for each comfort setting. I for example only use the upstairs bedroom sensors during the night when we sleep as I don't care if it's too cold or hot downstairs where we are not. Then during the day I use the main floor sensors since that is where we spend most of the day.

23 for winter and 23.5 in summer, i don't do any adjustments between day and night