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Got the Amazon smart stat installed. My system in the man cave is gas (propane) forced air heat only and does not have a humidifier just so anyone that might look at this knows the setup. My wifi is Mesh.
Install was easy. I had a five wire stat wire and my old thermostat utilized the C terminal. If you have four or five wires and your furnace has a C terminal, you don't need the C wire adapter. Wiring is simple, just strip back about 1/4" and insert it into the block at the corresponding terminal. Once wired, I energized the stat and started setup. I downloaded the Alexa app and signed into my amazon account. Learning the stat was simple enough with a code that you scan in the app. Where I ran into difficulty was in connecting to wifi. Each time I entered the password, it came back with an error message that the password was wrong. I reset the node in the room, retried wifi connection and it worked this time.
Settings on the stat are a bit limited. You can set home, away, sleep and wake periods. My issue is, it doesn't have any sort of bypass for the schedule. Most modern stats allow the user to bypass the schedule by selecting "hold" if you set the temperature any different than the schedule. So if my schedule is 68 wake, 68 home, 64 sleep and 64 away, if I come home during an away period and set the thermostat to 68, it will revert back to schedule at the next schedule time. For what I'm doing in my media room, I'd prefer having a hold function but I'll get over it.
I'm going to mess around with letting Alexa learn my schedule and see if that's any better. The problem is, my media room has an exercise room. I workout in the morning and then I'm not in the room until I decide to watch football or a movie. I need to look at the ecobee and nest thermostats to see if they have a hold function before passing judgement on the Amazon stat.
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Nick
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