How to Use Your Ecobee Smart Thermostat with Alexa?

Like everything, you might be thinking to control Ecobee Smart Thermostat using Alexa assistant. Isn't that fact? Well, it is amazingly easy to control your smart thermostat remotely from your phone. Another cooler idea and easier idea that comes into mind is accessing and controlling your thermostat through your voice using Alexa. Now, the question here is Use Your Ecobee Smart Thermostat with Alexa or how to set it up?

Before you get to this quick guide to Use Your Ecobee Smart Thermostat with Alexa, you will learn the steps to add Alexa skills to your Alexa account. Also, it is necessary to understand the process to add smart home devices to your Alexa setup. Once you have successfully done both the things, the guide will be a breeze. Let us quickly roll on ahead.

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Steps to Install the Ecobee Alexa Skills-

Yes, you are reading that thing right as we are talking about multiple skills that Alexa possess for multiple kinds of devices. Likewise, there are Alexa skills for the Ecobee thermostats (particularly two).

However, we will only use the new one out of two and the older one will be discussed into our further segment that means it's too advantageous.

Launch the Alexa app on your smartphone and select on the Menu option present in the top-left corner of the screen.
Select “Skills” from the menu list displayed.
Now, in the search bar, type or enter “ecobee” keyboard and press the Enter button on the keyboard.
The two Alexa skills, one is called “Ecobee” and the other is called “Ecobee Plus”. As already stated above, you only need the latter skill, but if you want to provide basic voice commands without saying “Alexa, ask Ecobee…”, then you will need the former Alexa skill also. However, both these skills can be installed and coexist peacefully.
Tap on one and hit the “Enable” button displayed on the screen.
Next, login to your Ecobee account and hit “Accept” at the bottom screen.
Finally after that step, hit the “Done” or the X button.

So, here you are all set to go and you can jump to the next phase.

Steps to Add Your Ecobee Thermostat to Alexa-

Before you Use Your Ecobee Smart Thermostat with Alexa, you need to add your thermostat to Alexa. Without connecting, you can not control the device using voice commands. For this, jump to the menu option in the Alexa app launched/opened on your device.

Quickly, tap on “Smart Home” and then select “Devices” option.
While you tap over the “Discover” option, you will find other devices added. In such a case, you have to scroll down to get to it if you already have some smart home devices added.
Else the app automatically looks for devices within a gap of few seconds. After the search, your Ecobee thermostat should appear in the list.

Various Voice Commands to Use Your Ecobee Smart Thermostat with Alexa-

If you have already installed the new Ecobee Plus skill, you have the flexibility to use a lot of commands with Alexa to control and access your Ecobee thermostat. However, with the normal Ecobee Alexa skill, you can only set the temperature and find out what the temperature is currently (or what the thermostat is set to). With the help of new skill, all that you’d have to say is “Alexa, set the thermostat to 75”.

Using the new Ecobee Plus skill, you have to add “ask Ecobee” in start of your every voice commands. So, this would be like “Alexa, ask Ecobee to set the thermostat to 75”. This might get annoying to you, right? So, it would be good to install the other skills as well with the newer one.

With this new skill, you can command a cooler way. Look at these examples discussed below.

“Alexa, ask Ecobee to set the thermostat to home mode.”
“Alexa, ask Ecobee to resume the schedule.” or “”Alexa, ask Ecobee to cancel hold.”
“Alexa, ask Ecobee if the heating is enabled.”
“Alexa, ask Ecobee if the dehumidifier is running.”
“Alexa, ask Ecobee to turn the fan off.”
“Alexa, ask ecobee to set a vacation from tomorrow to next Thursday.”

Now, all these cool version of commands are definitely an improvement over the older Ecobee Alexa skill. Additionally, there are giving you the ability to play with frequent controls just by using your voice rather than having to use the app all the time for performing specific actions.