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Best smart thermostats that support Amazon Alexa in 2024
The top thermostats that will work with your Alexa smart home
When it comes to controlling the temperature of your home, an analog thermostat can only do so much. Many great smart thermostats have several advantages over traditional options. For example, they include remote control, zone temperature control, and the ability to learn the users' habits to schedule accordingly. Some can even remind you when to change your air filter or stream music.
Late Prime Day deal drops Ecobee's best thermostat to its coolest price yet
Ecobee doesn't need Prime Day to take $40 off its Premium thermostat
We may be officially past Amazon Prime Day, but that's not stopping some retailers from dropping late deals that deserve a look. We saw some pretty great Prime Day smart home deals this year, but one of the best yet just dropped to keep the party going. Ecobee offers one of the best smart thermostats on the market right now, but with a standard price tag of $250, it's one of the most expensive options you can go with, aside from the Google Nest Learning Thermostat. However, Ecobee skipped Prime Day altogether and just dropped their Premium smart thermostat down to its best price ever, taking $40 off this top-of-the-line option for a limited time.
Ecobee’s smart thermostat drops to its lowest price ever for Black Friday
The smart thermostat is cheaper by $30 this Black Friday
Ecobee was the first company in the world to announce a smart thermostat in 2008. Since then, its thermostats have only improved, with a sleeker design, voice assistant integration, and other functionality. Unsurprisingly then, the company also makes some of our favorite smart thermostats. For Black Friday, you can save $30 on the company's excellent Smart Thermostat Enhanced. The device retails for $190, but you can get it for $160 during the shopping event.
Ecobee's new Smart Thermostat lineup cares about a whole lot more than just temperature
Ecobee's new premium thermostats finally have a look that matches their price tags
Ecobee announced the world's first smart thermostat back on October 10, 2008, and the company has not looked back since that day. Its latest offerings — the Smart Thermostat Premium and Smart Thermostat Enhanced — aim to push the boundaries of what a thermostat can do, leapfrogging the competitors like the Nest Thermostat.
The best smart home devices you can buy right now (Fall 2020)
From voice assistant speakers to robot vacuums, and everything in between
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Millions of homes now contain a smart assistant speaker of some variety and sales of IoT products continue to grow as the market matures and prices come down across the sector. With so many options available, it's hard to know what to buy, and that's where we come in — this is a selection of our favorite smart home gadgets. Whether you want to just dip your toes in the water with a cheap Google Nest Mini or dive into the deep end with smart lights, cameras, thermostats, doorbells, and so on — we’ve got you covered.
Ecobee launches Haven security subscription alongside Alexa SmartCamera
Protecting your home and minding your privacy all at once
Ecobee is mostly known for its smart thermostat, but the company has decided to foray into an adjacent business field: home security. It has announced its new Haven subscription that takes advantage of existing SmartThermostats and SmartSensors and introduced its first security camera and sensors for doors and windows.
If you're looking for an all-in-one smart home device, the Ecobee Switch+ is the one you need. It's a smart switch that comes with Alexa and houses different sensors. It was initially priced at $80, but you can now get it for just $40, which is half the original MSRP.
The holidays are almost here, which means you're probably going to spend a lot of time preparing food over a hot stove while friends and family gather in the other room. Among the cooking and commotion, your conventional thermostat can easily become confused, failing to heat some portions of your home while the main areas encroach on sauna-like temperatures. To keep you and your guests comfortable this season, consider picking up a new ecobee SmartThermostat with SmartSensor, now only 9 ( off) on Amazon.The ecobee SmartThermostat featured in this deal comes with a touchscreen, dual-band Wi-Fi, and a quad-core processor. Alexa and Google Home support mean that if you'd rather not control your thermostat through the app or via the integrated display, you can always tell it what to do with your voice. This deal also includes one SmartSensor that can measure the temperature in a room beyond your thermostat's reach.
Smart thermostats offer plenty of energy-saving benefits by letting you schedule different modes, turn them off when you leave home, and optimize temperature based on occupancy. Ecobee is now taking these smarts further with its new eco+ mode.
Ecobee thermostats come highly recommended here at Android Police, with the Ecobee4 earning the top thermostat ranking in our list of the best smart home devices. Things only got better with the introduction of the company's SmartThermostat, which improved on the Ecobee4 by updating the processor, improving sound quality, and the addition of 5GHz Wifi compatibility. In an exciting smart home-focused deal that is available from Best Buy for one day only, buyers will receive a free Ecobee Switch+ with the purchase of either the SmartThermostat or Ecobee3 Lite.
When I set up my smart home infrastructure, I went on an uncontrollable buying spree to make sure almost everything from the lights to the vacuum was connected. The Ecobee Switch+ is a neat all-in-one smart switch that comes with Alexa and a bunch of sensors, to avoid multiplying the number of smart things you buy. Given the number of things it can do, its initial $80 price was reasonable, but it's now dropped another $35, making quite an exciting deal.The Switch+ is designed to replace a regular switch on the wall while offering many more features. First and foremost, it comes with Alexa built-in, so you can interact with Amazon's virtual assistant without the need to buy an additional Echo speaker. It also packs motion, brightness, and temperature sensors, so it can automatically turn the lights on when someone walks into a room or when it's dark. Thanks to its compatibility with IFTTT, HomeKit, and SmartThings, it can interact with other devices based on your needs; for instance, you can use the embedded temperature sensor to control your thermostat. Lastly, the built-in night light is convenient to find your way around the house when it's dark.The Switch+ can be installed in about 45 minutes and doesn't require any technical skills to do so. Unfortunately, despite its catchy promise, some users have complained about its performance and mentioned it doesn't fully replace an actual Echo. It could still be worth it, especially if you place it in a hallway, but I probably wouldn't rely on it to be my living room speaker.Buy: Amazon
The Ecobee4 has been our go-to smart thermostat here at Android Police for quite a while. Its connectivity with various smart home protocols and integrated Alexa voice controls round off the device's temperature regulation capabilities, making it one of the best smart thermostats around. Today, Ecobee has announced the successor to its successful two-year-old product, and true to the proverb "if it ain't broke, don't fix it," not much has changed. The thermostat comes with a modest redesign, the same Alexa integration, improved processing power, and better sound.
Ecobee already competes directly with Nest in the smart thermostat game, and according to smart home blog Zatz Not Funny, it looks like it's about to do the same with smart cameras. Two photos of the camera were leaked, though details are otherwise sparse thus far.
As Black Friday approaches, tons of deal are already dropping, with Best Buy getting heavily involved in the discount season. Another good one we've spotted there is an Ecobee4 WiFi thermostat for 9, and while that's not that incredible by itself — we've seen it that low before — they're also chucking in a free Amazon Echo Dot (3rd gen) with it.
When you're putting together a smart home, it's easy to get a little carried away. Maybe you start with a speaker connected to a voice assistant. Then you're ordering pack after pack of smart light bulb, wiring in a doorbell cam, and before you know it your curtains and blinds are opening all by themselves. Well, homeowners aren't the only ones going down this path, we've also seen the companies behind these devices start out making just one kind of smart-home accessory, before finding themselves building a whole home's worth of connected tech. You may be familiar with Ecobee from its smart thermostats, and now the company's expanding with the release of the Switch+ smart light switch.Ecobee first announced the Switch+ earlier this month. While on the surface it's a smart light switch, the Switch+ does a whole lot more than just let you remotely control your home's illumination. Its big feature is voice control, which extends far beyond simply controlling the state of your lights to offer full Amazon Alexa connectivity.With enough of these in your home, and thanks the far-field mic tech built into the Switch+, it's conceivable you could access Alexa no matter where you are: kitchen, bedroom, bath—wherever.[EMBED_YT]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S5K7ZwUPlD0[/EMBED_YT]Beyond just controlling your lights with voice commands, Switch+ owners can also take advantage of the hardware's sensors to automatically manage illumination, detecting daylight and motion. And while you're free to use the Switch+ by itself, it's also got a temperature sensor you'll eventually be able to connect to an Ecobee thermostat.Retail sales of the Switch+ get underway today. You can expect to pay just about $100 for the smart light switch.Source: Ecobee, Amazon
Costco members, I've got another deal that's just for you. Right now, you can pick up an Ecobee3 smart thermostat, plus three room sensors, for $200. That's a good price, especially when you consider that Amazon has it for another $35 more. Ecobee's smart thermostat offering has been well-received for the most part, often touted as being almost as good as the Nest while costing much less. The fourth-generation version is already out and reviewed, but it doesn't have a great deal going on it right now. $200 is not a bad price for the third-gen thermostat and three sensors, especially since you can hook up your Ecobee3 to Google Assistant or Amazon Alexa.This deal is exclusive to Costco members, requiring a sign-in to even see the price — shipping is free, too. If you're content with not having the latest generation of smart thermostat, then I'd suggest thinking about this deal. If you're not a Costco member, then perhaps consider the extra $35 to get the same bundle from Amazon.Source: Costco
One of the biggest trends in consumer technology over the last few years has been the rise of the smart home. The number of different device categories that now make up the 'Internet of Things' (IoT) has grown immensely, with connected appliances now found in many households across the US and beyond.The smart home was once an expensive hobby for tech-fiends only but has now become an affordable aspiration for normal people. You can get started for less than $30 these days, with some lights or a smart switch that can connect to your Wi-Fi network and be controlled with your phone. If you want to go all in, you could end up spending thousands on the connected home of the future.With so many different products available, the smart home sector can be a little daunting. So let's break down the key categories and take a look at some of the best options in each one.
One of the easiest ways to add some smarts to your home is to replace your standard thermostat with a fancy new one from a company like Ecobee or Nest. These devices can be pretty spendy, but the Ecobee4 is on sale at various retailers today for $199.99. That's $50 less than the standard price.The Ecobee looks like a small black squircle on your wall. It operates like a regular thermostat if you want to walk up to it and press buttons, but there's also an app that lets you control the Ecobee from anywhere. In addition, it works with Amazon Alexa and just recently gained support for Google Assistant. It also has IFTTT, HomeKit, and SmartThings support.
Getting up to change the temperature on your thermostat is an arduous and unpleasant task, but smart thermostats have freed us from this drudgery. Okay... but now you have to open an app and tap stuff to change the thermostat? That still seems like a lot of work, right? Google Assistant offers the ultimate in convenience (until such time as we have brain-thermostat interfaces), but not all smart thermostats support it. You can add the Ecobee to the list today, though.
The best part about new technology coming out is that the older tech gets cheaper. The ecobee4 smart thermostat was released last month, but at $249, it's a bit pricey. If you don't need the built-in Alexa assistant, the ecobee3 is still a great thermostat, and now it's just $169.99 at Best Buy.For comparison, the ecobee3 seems to go for around $187-$200 at other stores right now. It's also worth noting that this is the full ecobee3, not the Lite model, so you get one room sensor in the box. Being a smart thermostat, you can not only control it from your phone or tablet, but also through the Alexa voice assistant. It works with Google Assistant if you connect it to either IFTTT or a Samsung SmartThings Hub first, but that's not an ideal solution.One advantage the ecobee3 has over its successor is the size. As you can see in this Amazon review, the new model is substantially larger, due to the built-in Alexa speaker and microphones. You can find the ecobee3 at Best Buy below.Source: Best Buy