What temps you all have it set at?
upstairs is 78
main floor is 76
Thinking about getting a Nest with a sensor for upstairs to see if it works better keeping constant temps over all. The current Hunter thermostat drives me nuts since they AC seems to be running all the time without consistent temp. Main floor is a Honeywell T4 and seems to work ok.
Just get another T4.
I can't stand nests and ecobees from what little I've had to deal with the stupid things.
I live in a two story on a walk out basement. I have an air to air heat pump. I should have two units for the size of house, one for main floor and basement and one for the second story but alas the builder was too cheap to go that route. So I run the furnace fan constantly during cooling season to move the air around. It helps. I have the thermostat set at 72. It's 70 in the basement, 72 on main floor, and 74 second floor. Best I can do.
I'm not sure Nest work better at being a simple thermostat than, well, a simple thermostat. We have two, and the benefits are that they're pretty good at figuring out when people aren't home (because they're not walking past the thermostat) and learning what temperature you want when during the day and week.
If your a/c is running continuously it's because it can't cool down the room with the thermostat in it to the temperature it's set to, unless you have a known busted thermostat.
Our heatpumps are running almost continuously in the current temperatures, but that's more likely because the house isn't set up with enough insulation.
This is my first summer with A/C ever (installed last fall), and currently I have most of the floor vents blocked off on the main floor, forcing the majority of the cool air upstairs. My thinking is the cooler air will come back down the stairs and help cool the main floor. No complaints so far.
The downstairs should be easier to keep at a constant temp, you have a whole second floor worth of insulation.
I have two Kenmore window units , one down. the other in the upstairs bed room. I set them both at 75 F and forget them. Use of fans does help the circulation.
Even in the recent heat wave the house stayed comfortable.
The nice thing about an Ecobee (and nest I would imagine) is that you can program it through a web app or your phone down to 30 min increments and get as detailed as you want. The typical 'programmable' thermostats only have 4 distinct 6 hour windows.
The turn the a/c on or heat on remotely I only use like once a year.
The alerts are kind of nice though.
I don't think they really 'perform' any better than a standard thermostat though, just more features.
ProDarwin said:I don't think they really 'perform' any better than a standard thermostat though, just more features.
... and more potential security concerns.
STM317 said:ProDarwin said:I don't think they really 'perform' any better than a standard thermostat though, just more features.
... and more potential security concerns.
That's a feature 
77 degrees for both floors. No fancy thermostats yet, but I have plans. I just installed a dehumidifier in the basement HVAC unit, it makes the whole house so much nicer.
I've got a roughly 3,000 sq/ft house. A 3-ton unit upstairs and a 2-ton unit downstairs. No heat pump, just old school A/C and gas furnaces. The house was built in 1958 but renovated this year, so insulation is a mixed bag. So far the A/C systems seem to be doing well. The downstairs unit barely runs, but the dehumidifier never cuts off.
A/C does some dehumidifieing on it's own.
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