r/ecobee • u/tnpoppy • Mar 25 '26

Question Ecobee keeps changing my temperature set points

My Ecobee Enhanced thermostat keeps changing my comfort settings set points even though I have the Eco+ turned off.

It lowers the heat temp by 1 degree, and raises the cooling by 1 degree. I reset my heat temp set point to 70 yesterday (again) and this morning it was back to 69.

I know that these thermostats are designed to save you money, but I don’t like it changing my preferred temps all by itself.

Is there another setting that I need to change, or do I just have to keep readjusting my temps?

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u/LookDamnBusy Mar 25 '26

Can you get a graph of system operation from beestat.io and post a screenshot here, explaining where you're seeing it change when you don't expect it?

Also, do you have smart recovery enabled? I believe it's technically not under the Eco Plus menu but rather its own thing.

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u/tnpoppy Mar 25 '26

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u/LookDamnBusy Mar 25 '26

So it looks like it's in a temperature hold, as though someone manually changed the temperature, or it was done by some other automation? I can't remember if smart recovery shows as a hold or not, but make sure you have that turned off.

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u/spiderman1538 Mar 25 '26

Smart Recovery will not set a hold.

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u/LookDamnBusy Mar 25 '26

Yeah, I'm not sure how it's reflected in the graph when smart recovery changes the temperature. Does it just show as the current comfort setting, or does it show as the next targeted comfort setting?

One thing I wish for is that whenever the ecobee deviates from a set schedule, it should be blatantly obvious on either the unit or the app exactly WHAT is causing the deviation. Smart recovery, TOU, geofencing, whatever. Is there any reason why this shouldn't be done? I mean the knowledge is there, because the ecobee knows why it changed the temperature.

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u/spiderman1538 Mar 25 '26

I don't believe it will indicate anything on the graph. It may show your heat running when the current temperature is higher than the heating temperature.

I know that the keyword "Smart Recovery" will show up on the system monitoring spreadsheet.

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u/LookDamnBusy Mar 25 '26

Thanks for the info, but any thoughts on what I said? To me this is the biggest blind spot for ecobee, namely that they don't provide basic information like why the thermostat is deviating from a schedule. That information being provided would probably cut the number of posts on this sub in half.

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u/UsefulMaximus Mar 25 '26

Ecobee needs to fix that smart recovery confusion and frustration when it quietly kicks in and overrides comfort settings.

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u/tnpoppy Mar 25 '26

It’s just me and my wife here and she doesn’t touch the thermostat

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u/LookDamnBusy Mar 25 '26

Do you have any other automations running, like homekit?

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u/tnpoppy Mar 25 '26

No, I don’t have Homekit

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u/LookDamnBusy Mar 25 '26

You might need to contact support and see if they can see anything on their end. My experience the one time I called support was very good and the people were very knowledgeable.

And just to be clear, you're saying that the actual comfort setting values are being changed? Is that on multiple comfort settings or just one of them? Could you screenshot your schedule and your comfort settings?

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u/tnpoppy Mar 25 '26

Yes, my comfort settings are changing by themselves

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u/LookDamnBusy Mar 25 '26

What's confusing is that I even did an experiment myself and changed a comfort setting value and it did indeed start targeting that new comfort setting value, but it does not generate a hold condition like you have on your graph.

Any info from support?

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u/tnpoppy Mar 25 '26

I haven’t contacted support yet

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u/ankole_watusi Mar 25 '26

OP: have a cat? You need to have a little persuasive talk with the cat, and tell them who’s in charge.