Anna’s Hummingbirds fighting over native fuchsias!
HomeKit is great because it doesn’t require internet for day to day operations. Internet goes down, I can still operate or expect automations as normal. The same cannot be said of the other smart home ecosystems. Ecobee goes out of business? HomeKit!
Ecobee 3 lite seems nice but had to change its default 0.5°f “Cool Differential Temp” to 1°f. We keep our house pretty warm so its heat saturated mass rapidly causes air temp to rebound. To Nest’s credit, I think it had a non-programmable ~1°f diff. Short-cycling 👎
Bye bye Nest Thermostat Gen 1. Hello ecobee3 lite! I revised the Nest’s fancy screws to avoid drywall anchors — critical as the drywall is backed by 2x4s. Super easy install with the common wire I enabled last weekend.
Almond harvest season.
Can’t wait to replace the 1st gen Nest Thermostat with this Ecobee3 Lite. A Friday project.
Going to be jealous of that iPhone 11’s 📱grown up front camera! About time it has near parity to the rear.
The package only had to go from one end of the state to another. Instead, it first went across the country! 🧐
Tonight’s homemade pizza 🍕
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Preparing to move away from Nest (Google) to Ecobee this week. Just used a spare thermostat wire and C terminal on HVAC mainboard to create a common wire. Minimizes fussing with wires at the mainboard and no PEK for me!
Eucalyptus plantation near Corning. This was supposed to be for a sustainable biofuels project.
