Ecobee vs Nest, Sensors vs Pucks

I'm looking at adding Flair to my condo, and currently have a Nest thermostat. For my setup, I will be dividing into three zones: The great room (where the thermostat is) and two bedrooms, which will each get a sensor.

As I see it, I have two options that would be similar pricing:

Keep the Nest, and get two Flair Pucks for the bedrooms ($119/each)
Switch to Ecobee with two remote sensors (no pucks) ($239 total)

What would be the advantages and disadvantages of each choice? From research, it sounds to me like:

Nest with Flair Pucks:

Visual Display per room
Physical control per room
Puck reads temp, humidity, light, and pressure, but not occupancy

Ecobee with Ecobee Remote Sensors:

Sensor reads temp, occupancy, but not humidity, light, pressure
Smaller sensor, but no physical controls or display

Is there anything else that would be different between the setups, and better in one over the other? Would temperature scheduling and home/away monitoring and things like that be any different? The only thread I found comparing them here is 5 years old...

Official comment

James C.

July 11, 2024 17:53

Hi Dan Kelmenson,

Great job laying out the scenario and the pros and cons of each. I think you hit the nail on the head.

Flair will work well either way you go.

We have both ecobee and Nest users at our company and both have big fans.

Nest doesn't allow us access to the temperature data from their sensors or the thermostat's Home and Away status, so those are things to consider.

We have many Nest and ecobee users on the forums here so you may get additional feedback and experiences from them.

Regards,

The Flair Team

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