Controlling your smart thermostat remotely from your phone is cool and all, but don’t forget that you can also make it even easier on yourself and control it with your voice using Alexa. Here’s how to set it up.
Before you get started, it would be a good idea to learn how to add Alexa skills to your Alexa account, as well as add smarthome devices to your Alexa setup. Once you’re familiar with doing both of these things, this guide will be a breeze.
Let’s get started!Install the Ecobee Alexa Skills
Yes, you read that right—skills, with an “s”. There are multiple Alexa skills for the Ecobee thermostats (two to be exact). You really only need the newer one, but the older one still has its advantages, and I’ll talk more about that further below.
Open the Alexa app and tap on the menu button up in the top-left corner of the screen.
Select “Skills” from the list.
Tap on the search bar, enter in “ecobee”, and hit Enter on the keyboard.
You should see two Alexa skills, one called “Ecobee” and the other called “Ecobee Plus”. As mentioned above, you really only need the latter skill, but in order to provide basic voice commands without saying “Alexa, ask Ecobee…”, then you’ll want the former Alexa skill as well—both can be installed and coexist peacefully.
Tap on one and hit “Enable”.
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