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Burton Tarvin
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Pre purchase question 

Two story home. One room upstairs is hotter than others and another is cooler.

Down stair is always cooler but uniform.

Will switch to Ecobee. Have nest and remotes sensors.

Do I need Ecobee temperature sensors and two pucks. One puck up stairs and one down.

Or just one puck or do I need a puck for each room that I want to control

6 vents control with 10 in home. 

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    James C.

    Burton Tarvin,

    Thanks for writing in!

    Google Nest does not allow third parties such as Flair to access the temperature data from its remote sensors.  These cannot be used in your Flair home.  Ecobee and Honeywell Home T9 and T10 remote sensors can be used as the temperature-sensing device in a Flair room.

    How many Gateway Pucks you will need is not an easy answer.  One per floor is a good guess.  For all rooms that you want to control Smart Vents in your will need either a Flair Puck, an integrated smart thermostat, or one of the above-mentioned room sensors.

    If you want to talk specifics about your situation prior to purchase please reach out to our Technical Support Team, we would be happy to help!

    Here is some good info to review:

    https://support.flair.co/hc/en-us/articles/360000532471-How-do-I-measure-my-vents-

    https://flair.co/airflow-scenarios/

    Regards,

    The Flair Team

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    Chuck Askew

    You only are required to have one puck and set it up as a gateway. I did that with my 3 story home with one puck centrally located on the middle floor. It worked fine except the most distant vents had been inconsistent connectivity, so I ended up adding a puck on each level. Now connectivity is fine..n but it is odd because some of the first floor vents are connecting to the 3rd floor pick b and vice versa. Go figure.

    So I would try one puck. Then add additional puck only if you can't find a spot for it where all the vents can consistently connect. There only other reason I can think of to add a puck would be to give temperature control to people without the app by turning the puck.

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    Burton Tarvin

    Thanks.

    Can I use my nest and remote
    sensors to control each room vent or do I need eccobee and their temp sensors?

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    Chuck Askew

    I use Honeywell thermostat and sensors. I considered nest but there were limitations on how it worked with room sensors.. per Flair website: .

    Flair is an official Nest integration partner.

    Flair is compatible with all Google Nest thermostat models.
    The Google Nest API does not currently enable integration with remote sensors

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