Feature Request: Room Always Active setting
I'm using occupancy sensors to determine the active/inactive status for rooms in my combined Ecobee/Flair setup. There are "rooms" in the house that I need to always stay active for two reasons.
a) Smaller rooms like a powder room or mudroom, which get minimal foot traffic, either never get cooled/heated due to inactivity or get excess heat/cooling dumped in them due to Back Pressure Protection (BPP) algorithms. I'd prefer they were always active so they were cooled/heated to maintain comfort, and not pushed outside comfort range due to BPP.
b) Certain areas, like a hallway, foyer or landing can be continually heated/cooled as they are wide open spaces that a temperature reading will never accurately capture, and so would be perfect candidates for BPP dumping as the excess would simply disperse around these non enclosed parts of the house.
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Official comment
Hi Oliver,
Thanks for the request - just want to make sure I have the request well understood - you'd like to be able to have some rooms automatically move between active/inactive via ecobee occupancy sensor data but would like to have certain rooms constantly set to active regardless of the occupancy sensors. I suspect this can be done now but I'll ask the team and follow up. Minor note is that active and inactive are 100% correlated with open/close because of BPP.Comment actions -
Hi Oliver,
Checked with the team - the system is able to do this. Active/Inactive is only controlled by occupancy sensors when rooms don't have holds and don't have schedules set. If you create schedule for instance, you can set specific times for specific rooms where they should be expressly active or inactive. That has the added advantage of letting you make them 24/7 active or inactive, or allowing you to make them active/inactive for certain times and occupancy driven at others. Hope that helps! -
While this is an interesting idea, it doesn't really work in practice with my setup, as you have to specify a set point in any schedule and I want to use my Ecobee to set min/max temperature due to increased flexibility in changing the temperature range/hysteresis between my night and day schedules.
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