{"id":607,"date":"2022-07-25T15:31:33","date_gmt":"2022-07-25T14:31:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.smarthomewinner.com\/?p=607"},"modified":"2022-07-25T15:31:34","modified_gmt":"2022-07-25T14:31:34","slug":"ecobee-blowing-hot-or-cold-air-issue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.smarthomewinner.com\/ecobee-blowing-hot-or-cold-air-issue\/","title":{"rendered":"Fixing Your Ecobee When It Blows Hot (Or Cold) Air"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Ecobee often works fine, but sometimes this smart HVAC systems thermostat doesn\u2019t work as expected. For example, it sometimes heats instead of cooling the room, and vice versa. In this article, I discuss this problem and how to fix it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Why Your Ecobee Could Be Cooling Instead of Heating the Room (and Vice Versa)<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Below I cover some possible reasons why your Ecobee smart thermostat may be faultily blowing cold or hot air to the room, giving unexpected results.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1. Possible Ecobee—Heat Pump Wiring Issues<\/h3>\n\n\n
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An ecobee smart thermostat showing the current and expected weather<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n

Even though your Ecobee thermostat is very smart and intelligent, it won\u2019t function as it\u2019s supposed to if you\u2019ve got the wiring for it and the heat pump wrong<\/strong>. For starters, the heat pump is a key component of some HVAC systems whose primary task is to extract heat from the cold external air and send it to the room, subsequently cooling the house.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If you have an HVAC system with a built-in heat pump<\/a>, that is blowing hot air when it\u2019s supposed to blow cold air or vice versa, check your Ecobee thermostat and heat pump wiring. Because if you\u2019ve got the wiring wrong, your thermostat\u2019s cold air settings could result in the thermostat giving you warm air contrary to cold air.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A Possible Fix:<\/strong> Ensure that your thermostat(Ecobee) and heat pump are wired properly with the help of a competent professional.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2. The Smart Recovery Feature <\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Smart Recovery Setting<\/a> is one of the coolest features of the Ecobee HVAC smart thermostat. This feature enables the thermostat to \u201clearn\u201d about your desired temperature range and schedule. Unfortunately, it takes time to learn that and as such it might make some mistakes along the way while figuring out how to optimize your experience. These typically involve it blowing cold air when you need hot air and vice versa.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A Possible Fix:<\/strong> Try disabling Smart Recovery and instead use your custom settings to cater to your cooling and heating needs. To do that;<\/p>\n\n\n\n