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Hopefully not for your sake, mine was 8 years old and going strong until this. I was hoping to get 10 years out of it but oh well.
2·9 months agoI have the ecobee 3 lite and I try to keep it off the cloud and connect through home kit to home assistant. It is exceptionally unreliable and disconnects all the time. It’s the only home kit device I have, everything else is zigbee. I don’t know if it’s an ecobee issue or a home assistant issue or maybe a router issue. The only thing that’s helped some is occasionally letting it have access to the cloud and then it will reconnect to home kit and then I can disconnect it from the cloud and it will be good for any more from a few days to a month. I cannot recommend it because it has been so unreliable, and looking through online forums I’ve seen a lot of other people have similar issues with HomeKit and the ecobee. Eventually I want to switch to a purely zigbee device, as this is the only thing I have that even has Wi-Fi on my automation network.
I then control temperatures through a combination of home assistant, node red, and sensors through zigbee2mqtt.
Good thought, I’m almost wondering if I should just upgrade now, I found a MB CPU ram combo deal at microcenter for ryzen 7700x combo 4 for 400, maybe I should just upgrade to something like that now with a new GPU. My initial an was to get a 7950x3d or 7800x3d in a year or so and upgrade everything then.
I’ll have to check him out. And yeah I’ve been worried it might be a bottle neck, but I guess the question I’ve been wondering is if I should just get something higher end now for an eventual upgrade of CPU / MB, or just get a cheaper GPU now and then upgrade everything in a year or two
Do you think the xtx is really worth it over the xt? The xt seems to have just a little less ram and slightly lower clock, but 250 less, I doubt the gaming in doing will need anywhere need 24gb memory for quite some time
Out of curiosity, how are you connecting your phone to home when you’re out? Are you exposing HA, vpn? What sensors do you have enabled in the companion app? Do you have high accuracy enabled? How’s your battery drain?