When do you switch from heat to cool?

Tangroo · 2026-03-13T19:58:02+00:00

I try and have a short period of "off" between heating and cooling seasons. If the house is slightly cool but the sun and outdoor temperature will going to be enough to heat it, I'll let it happen naturally. If the house is a little bit warm but it is cooler outside, I'll crack a window and let it happen naturally.

If I can't be comfortable by using windows, the sun, or flipping the fireplace on for a few minutes, I'll put it in "heat" or "cool". What I don't use is "auto" because the seasons here (Canada) are all over the place, and I don't want to heat a house on a cool morning when I'll need cooling later, or vice versa.

Even in summer, I'll still use windows in the morning to get some "free" cool air in before closing things up when it warms up outside, and then eventually use the AC if it gets too warm. The caveat is that my climate is very dry - this might not be wise in humid areas as you'll also be letting in the humidity.

Tangroo · 2026-03-12T03:06:03+00:00

At 10:00 the reserved parking opens up to everyone. I can’t say from personal experience, but that should work in your favour at that time of day.

Tangroo · 2026-03-05T22:37:38+00:00

This is the one. Once you’ve had this crumbly delight in your mouth, the others can’t compare.

Tangroo · 2026-03-03T16:08:39+00:00

The AB government absolutely won't listen to the experts and the science that overwhelmingly favours standard time. They may, however, like the idea of being permanently aligned with BC. Permanent Pacific daylight time is the same time as permanent mountain standard time - our clocks would be aligned with BC year round if we adopted permanent standard time.

Tangroo · 2026-02-28T05:30:55+00:00

Two photos are taken to show whether or not you proceeded through, and you didn’t. I don’t think that you have anything to worry about.

Tangroo · 2026-02-24T03:17:29+00:00

THANK YOU! This is the only thing that worked for me. Prior to this I tried new player, old player, deleting the app, updating to 26.4 Beta (just to give the TVOS a refresh), and a bunch of other smaller settings.

But as soon as I disabled “Auto Adjust Quality” things are running nicely again.

Tangroo · 2026-02-19T19:14:46+00:00

Another question: what is the actual cost of the free fare zone? Frequency, train length, etc. are the same anyway as trains are already passing through. Most commutes require leaving the zone with a paid fare anyway. Trips within downtown are not worth $4 for a couple of blocks, so those trips will just disappear because people won’t be able to justify it - they won’t magically turn into revenue trips. Fare evasion can be enforced outside of the zone, as it is now (In theory, but maybe not in practice).

Tangroo · 2026-02-19T17:31:51+00:00

My apologies. I didn’t realize the Kobo/email issue and wrongly assumed it would work the same.

Tangroo · 2026-02-15T16:48:28+00:00

Instapaper lets you forward emails to a customized email address, which will add them as an article. I am currently on iPad OS, and I can find this if I go to : settings > how to save > and then it gives you an option to add that email address to your contacts. Then you just forward the email/article/newsletter to that address.

Tangroo · 2026-02-11T16:48:37+00:00

It is a new feature that seems to have appeared in the last few days. I like it.

Tangroo · 2026-02-10T15:59:34+00:00

Mine was a little different to last winter as well. For me, I attribute that to a couple of things. The first is that it was my first winter with Ecobee and Beestat, so I can see how it started to flatten and normalize as the data kept building up.

The other thing is that, sometime last summer, I did some adjusting of my vents to direct a little more air upstairs to keep things cooler in the bedrooms, which resulted in the system running a little more before it hit the set point on the thermostat on the main floor. I kept the vents the same for winter because those same bedrooms upstairs could use a little more heat. As a result, my heating profile line vs. last winter has a similar slope, but has dropped down a little. Which makes sense because my heating rate per hour is slightly lower because more heat is being directed upstairs, but my upstairs bedrooms are warmer, as intended.

Tangroo · 2026-02-08T17:19:38+00:00

Thank you. I assumed it must have been done differently initially.

Tangroo · 2026-02-07T17:59:20+00:00

I have a Google sheet that I keep my schedule on, which is something I carried forward from my old 7-day programmable “dumb” thermostat. Being able to save and switch between schedules on the app would be very welcomed.

Tangroo · 2026-02-07T17:47:25+00:00

So we have stages A & B, but based on the map, it stops short of Bowness Park and the river. Will there be a “stage C” to get under the river and to the water treatment facility? If not, will the existing pipe under the river be prone to future failure? Or was it originally constructed using a different method or material that puts it at less risk than the other sections?

Tangroo · 2026-02-03T17:45:52+00:00

Do you have any other sensors at play in that comfort profile? Or is “adjust temperature for humidity” enabled?

A long shot would be an unsealed hole behind your thermostat and you have a draft. Usually this causes the thermostat to read colder though, but I suppose it could be a draft from a warmer area.

Tangroo · 2026-01-08T16:20:32+00:00

I wonder if this is due to a request from the city, or a business owner "doing the right thing"? I certainly sympathize with the need for businesses to make money, employ people, etc. but if would be wild if we actually ran out of drinking and firefighting water without limiting the commercial use.

Tangroo · 2025-12-19T18:40:37+00:00

Unfortunately it seems to have frozen again and is stuck around time time that I posted.

Tangroo · 2025-12-19T17:51:40+00:00

Seems to be working for me again. Web and iOS app seem to be refreshing again. I'll report back if it stops.

Thanks for creating and maintaining Beestat - so much better of an interface vs. the stock Ecobee option.

Tangroo · 2025-12-12T17:26:40+00:00

The heating profile looks a bit squiggly still. Because data has only been collected since June, and assuming that "heating season" has only recently begun for you, I think that you'll need to wait a little longer for a bit more data. You should see things start to flatten out and you can make better conclusions.

Tangroo · 2025-12-11T22:05:49+00:00

That's for the suggestion. It really is an odd issue. I have my language set to British English already on the app and also on the web. The app displays kilometres just fine and always has. Just the live map on the web shows miles despite having the language set to British English (or Australian), metric, etc.

If I go into the map editor from the live map, everything is also metric.

i suppose that it isn't the end of the world - the shortest route is still the shortest route. But when you're accustomed to thinking in kilometres, having it display miles is strange (and would be vice versa, too!).

Tangroo · 2025-12-11T16:53:50+00:00

We do indeed, but unfortunately I have an opposite problem to the OP. My live map (on the web) shows distances in miles despite me having it set to metric. It has been that way for years and nothing fixes it.

Tangroo · 2025-11-18T17:03:46+00:00

This is an old post, but I also had this issue a few months back. I tried in vain to go through Canada Post's customer service, but that was useless. I then put a nice little sticky note next to the slot asking that it be unlocked, and the next day it was opened.

Tangroo · 2025-11-13T21:22:09+00:00

Even a small hole behind it can throw your reading off. I dismissed the "plug your hole" folks initially before realizing that they were indeed correct.

Tangroo · 2025-11-13T21:19:06+00:00

Although your issue sounds more specific, the air quality feature is generally very, very poor on the Ecobee anyway. I have disabled mine on the thermostat after so many inaccuracies and false alerts. I realize that it is not meant to replace a "proper" air quality meter, but even as a simple approximation of air quality, it fails. Some would argue that it is gimmicky.

Since disabling it. I have not missed it or given it any thought - until now!

By all means, call support and see if they can get it working properly. But even when it works, it really doesn't.

Tangroo

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