How my smart home almost saved my vacation
. These sensors all confirmed that every room in my house, except my bedroom, was hovering between 86 and 92 degrees.
Now I had confirmed the problem was my main HVAC unit, which is about nine years old and had been struggling through a week of feels-like temperatures in the low 100s.I’m glad I knew there was a possible boiling bunny scenario in my home, but I want my house to be smart enough to do something about it.near the outside unit, I could hear that the AC condenser was still running, and the Ecobee app also told me that the system was actively trying to cool.
While I consider this a smart home success story, it highlights that the connected home’s current state is all notification and no action. We can know everything about our homes but can’t do much about it — at least not from afar. The Ecobee SmartThermostat can monitor your home’s temperature and can send alerts for drops or spikes in temperature as well as problems with heating or cooling.
Of course, this would need human intervention, including physically and digitally allowing the HVAC company access to my home. This could be similar to how a home security monitoring service works today .
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