What are people on Lemmy using for their home thermostats?

I’m in the US with a packaged HVAC system (cool+heat) and was looking to buy a new thermostat, but I wanted to make sure it’s highly compatible with Home Assistant.

Ideally, I’m looking for something that speaks Matter over WiFi or Thread. I would like to mainly control it via HA. Everyone in my household are Android users (not totally sure if that’s important?). Also, it would be nice if I didn’t have to connect it to the cloud.

I was considering the Meross Smart Wi-Fi Thermostat, which seems to check all of the boxes. I was wondering if anyone here uses this thermostat.

Another one that seemed interesting was the Siterwell Smart Thermostat GS368M, although this was just announced very recently and who knows when/if it’ll go on sale.

  • AA5B@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    22 hours ago

    I started looking with similar requirements and maybe things have changed over the years but ended up with ecobee as my best choice. I didn’t like that it was a cloud thermostat but it does a lot and just really works well for me. So far no issues related to being a cloud thing.

    While I do have it configured in home assistant I have to admit I like their app enough that I usually prefer that

    • limelight79@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      22 hours ago

      I have an ecobee too (and have for about 8 years), but I thought I heard that new ecobee users couldn’t get the access that HA uses.

      • SolidGrue@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        21 hours ago

        The HA Ecobee integration requires a developer API key which ecobee no longer distributes, if you already have a key it still works, but they stopped giving out new keys a few years ago.

        On the other hand, the HomeKit integration allows new users to control most of the thermostat’s features locally over WiFi. I got my thermostat after the Developer program ended, and this is how I control it today. Once you install the HomeKit integration, it will discover the thermostat if its on the same LAN, and then prompt you to add it.

        • limelight79@lemmy.worldEnglish
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          19 hours ago

          Thanks. I knew there was something. The HomeKit setup actually sounds better, maybe I should switch.

          I like our ecobee overall, especially for being able to specify which thermometers to focus on for a given setting.

          But there are some things that I wish were easier. For example, my work days vary, so it’d be nice if it was easier to specify a work day versus a home day in advance, without having to change the schedule.

          Eyeing up those Z-wave thermostats though…