Ecobee Remote Sensors and Flair Vents

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TexasJetter

Let me see if I understand how Flair Smart Vents and Ecobee remote sensors might work together.

In the case where an Ecobee sensor is in a room other than the thermostat, the sensor could instruct the thermostat to start/stop based on the temperature in the remote room.

Now if we add a Flair vent in the remote room with the Ecobee sensor - the Flair Gateway (may or may not be in the room) will talk to the Ecobee sensor and open/close the vent based on the Flair app settings?

Does this mean that the Ecobee sensor set point (controlling the thermostat) might be different from the Flair App setpoint (controlling the vent)? If this is the case then couldn't you run into a case where the Vent shuts down before the thermostat setup point is reached, meaning the unit would run longer than desired?

Or is there just one setpoint for the remote sensor that the remote thermostat and the local vent share?

Just trying to think this through before I spend the bucks.

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    Flair Customer Support
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    Hi TexasJetter,

    The Set Point Controller setting controls how Flair integrates with ecobee. This article explains more:

    https://support.flair.co/hc/en-us/articles/360000533631-Set-Point-Controller

    Also, please note that the Flair system can read the room temperature and occupancy from a remote sensor and use it to inform Flair, but Flair Smart Vents don’t communicate directly with ecobee remote sensors.

    This article has a diagram that shows how Flair communicates with a smart thermostat:

    https://support.flair.co/hc/en-us/articles/360045067072-What-communication-protocols-does-Flair-use-

    All the best,
    Finn

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    Matt

    You have lots of options, depending on what you want to do and which system you want to control the setpoint that turns the heat/cool source on/off.

    Everything depends on how you set it up.

     

    So:

    • You could have one temperature that controls both the vent status and the source status.
    • You could have two independent controls and set them to the same temperature value.
    • You could have two independent controls and set them to them to two independent temperature values that are in conflict.

     

    There's lots of flexibility, to deal with lots of different home scenarios.  In my personal setup with Flair and Ecobee, I did NOT integrate them.  This creates separate control for vents and source and they have sperate temperature controls.  I've set the schedules in coordination for the results I want and avoiding conflict where Ecobee tries to drive a temperate that Flair is trying to prevent for sensors in the same room.

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