Thank you for the tag @Rulwiz! Sorry for the delay. Had a long day.
@Earl.Automation and @spamoni have already covered so much ground, so I will just share what I have going on with mine…
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I don’t use any schedules. I also made sure to delete all schedules from the list. All Home\Away\Sleep state changes in my thermostat are rule driven by mode changes in my Wyze HMS security system. There are other ways of automating this as well or you can do it manually.
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Once a schedule is set, the set temps will not be updated if you change your preference temps. They are independent settings that have to be changed seperately. I really did not like that. I also can’t keep a schedule from one day to the next.
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If you have no schedules set and they have all been deleted, the preference temp setpoints have to be set for all three states, Home, Away, and Sleep.
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If you want to have only one temp rather than a range, you have to take it out of Auto. Single temp setpoints are only when it is in Cool or in Heat. When in Auto, It must have a minimum dead range between the Heat and the Cool setpoints so it doesn’t fry your unit trying to switch back and forth constantly between the two systems when fluctuating at that setpoint. It is a safety requirement on every thermostat with an Auto switch setting.
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At Above 69 and below 74, you are setting the heat to Auto kick in when it gets below 69 and the cool to Auto kick in when it gets above 74. At what temp it starts & stops above and below these temps depends on your Temp Differential.
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I have my temp differential set at 1°. With the Cool set to 72, it will kick on at 73 and cool to 71. The closer these are, the less efficient the cooling or heating cycle because the system will start more often and run shorter times. The more the differential, the less it will start and stop and will run for longer times. The most wear and tear on your system and the most power used is during startup. Limit the startups and your equipment lasts longer saving you power. You can’t have a 0° differential or the system would be going on and off instantaneously and fry your system.
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Do not change your behavior setting of the thermostat after you have it set and your other settings changed. Changing the behavior fiddles with all the other settings automatically and you will have to go thru everything else again. I have mine set at Balanced.
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Auto Switch and Auto are two different things. Auto Switch changes the Home\Away state based on your arrival and departure using GPS. Auto mode will automatically change from the Heat to the Cool state when the temp surpasses the setpoint.
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The remote sensors complicates things based on how you want them to react to you and to the thermostat. I have mine included permanently. With Motion Sensing Comfort On, I include the sensor (green plus sign). Then I select inclusion for both home and sleep, I click Done, then I turn Motion Sensing Comfort Off. The sensors then remain included when the thermostat is in Home or in Sleep regardless of motion around them. I have my threshold set at 3°. I have the sensor set to Maximize Comfort.
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The key to recognizing if the remote sensors are included or not, and therefore changing the sensed temp, is by looking at the App. If it tells you “Welcome Home, it is 71 in your Home” they are being included and averaged. If it tells you “Welcome Home, it is 71 in your Wyze Thermostat” or whatever you named it, they aren’t being used in an average and only the thermostat sensor is being used to determine the inside temp. The thermostat face screen on the wall will never show the average temp, only the app.