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Nest thermostat question
Posted on 1/13/17 at 7:47 am
Posted on 1/13/17 at 7:47 am
I have an older geothermal heat pump and I was wondering if anyone had any insight. My existing thermostat is possessed and keeps going back to a program the previous owners of the house used and even Honeywell tech support can't figure it out. They liked it much warmer than we do.
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Posted on 1/13/17 at 7:48 am to DeltaTiger14
There are entire threads dedicated to this on the Tech board. Just FYI. You'll get better responses there.
Posted on 1/13/17 at 7:49 am to Breesus
Ecobee supports geothermal. Do you have a C wire? It makes installing these smart thermostats much easier.
This post was edited on 1/13/17 at 7:50 am
Posted on 1/13/17 at 7:50 am to Breesus
I didn't even think about the tech board
Posted on 1/13/17 at 7:51 am to Dam Guide
It does have the C wire
Posted on 1/13/17 at 7:56 am to DeltaTiger14
Posted on 1/13/17 at 8:33 am to Dam Guide
Does the nest have a humidity sensor? Or can you add it? Living in Louisiana, that is all I want is a thermostat that will kick the A/C on just to drop the humidity regardless of the temp, especially in the middle of a weird winter like we are having now.
Posted on 1/13/17 at 8:42 am to Kingpenm3
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Nest thermostat question
Does the nest have a humidity sensor? Or can you add it? Living in Louisiana, that is all I want is a thermostat that will kick the A/C on just to drop the humidity regardless of the temp, especially in the middle of a weird winter like we are having now.
no, these thermostats are supposed to be smart but they are actually dumb.
I did find a guy that wrote a script that works with the smart things hub and the ecobee that would do this, but I havent seen where this is a built in function.
Posted on 1/13/17 at 9:02 am to Kingpenm3
start your own thread 
Posted on 1/13/17 at 9:05 am to DeltaTiger14
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even Honeywell tech support can't figure it out
CAD says this is not possible. Honeywell is flawless.
This post was edited on 1/13/17 at 9:05 am
Posted on 1/13/17 at 9:09 am to DeltaTiger14
Ecobee /thread
Posted on 1/13/17 at 9:13 am to DeltaTiger14
Can they automatically switch between AC and heat automatically?
Left my thermostat on AC with a program to hold at 85 while I was out of town last week. Got a little nervous when the hard freeze hit. Luckily nothing froze, but it was very cold in my home when I returned.
Left my thermostat on AC with a program to hold at 85 while I was out of town last week. Got a little nervous when the hard freeze hit. Luckily nothing froze, but it was very cold in my home when I returned.
Posted on 1/13/17 at 9:14 am to Bmath
If you had an ecobee, you could have checked the temp and/or changed the settings from your phone
Posted on 1/13/17 at 9:17 am to Kingpenm3
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Does the nest have a humidity sensor? Or can you add it? Living in Louisiana, that is all I want is a thermostat that will kick the A/C on just to drop the humidity regardless of the temp, especially in the middle of a weird winter like we are having now.
Not sure about nest, but the ecobee has a humidity sensor. It even has it on the lite version. I am not sure you can trigger it on the humidity alone though, haven't tried. I know you can feed the info into other devices like humidifiers/dehumidifier to do the job though.
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Can they automatically switch between AC and heat automatically? Left my thermostat on AC with a program to hold at 85 while I was out of town last week. Got a little nervous when the hard freeze hit. Luckily nothing froze, but it was very cold in my home when I returned.
The ecobee can be put in auto switch mode or you can leave it on heat or cold only as well.
This post was edited on 1/13/17 at 9:20 am
Posted on 1/13/17 at 10:22 am to Kingpenm3
quote:Yes it does. And you can enable an feature that will automatically kick on the AC if humidity goes above 70%
Does the nest have a humidity sensor? Or can you add it? Living in Louisiana, that is all I want is a thermostat that will kick the A/C on just to drop the humidity regardless of the temp, especially in the middle of a weird winter like we are having no
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Can they automatically switch between AC and heat automatically? Left my thermostat on AC with a program to hold at 85 while I was out of town last week. Got a little nervous when the hard freeze hit. Luckily nothing froze, but it was very cold in my home when I returned.
Yes it can. They have Heat mode. Cool mode. And Heat/Cool mode where you set an upper and lower temperature setpoint.
Posted on 1/13/17 at 10:23 am to DeltaTiger14
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Nest
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Honeywell
Posted on 1/13/17 at 10:28 am to junkfunky
he said his existing thermo is a honeywell and is having problems and wants to know if a nest would fix them.
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