I’m excited to have the new Aqara W600 Thermostat in hand and ready to integrate it into my existing smart home setup.
Before I fully deploy it, I’d love to hear your best ideas for stress-testing and creating smart automations with it!
For context, I already have a Aqara ecosystem, including:
Temperature and Humidity Sensors
Multiple Cameras
Wireless Switches/Buttons
The Older E1 Thermostats (perfect for a comparison test!)
What are your must-try automations or performance checks?
I’m particularly interested in seeing how well the W600 handles things like external temperature sensor reference, advanced scheduling, or integrating with the buttons for quick scene activation.
Also decrease noise, they announced.
Thanks so much in advance for the inspiration and suggestions! Let’s optimize this new device!
If you have one, you should be able to use it with the great Versatile Thermostat (for Home Assistant). With this thermostat, all automation are integrated and you don’t have to do it yourself.
You want to lower the target temperature when you are out ? Or have time based presets ? or heat more when a presence is detected in a room ? or turn off heating when a window is open ? and much more features in that thermostat.
In the bathroom, as soon as the humidity exceeds 40%, turn on and maintain a temperature of 25°C. In the kitchen, when the power consumption of outlets (oven or stove) exceeds 300 watts, turn off the heating; maintain a temperature of 17°C at night if no one is home. An hour before waking up, bring the temperature to 22°C; maintain 20°C during the day. In the bedroom, at night, if the window is closed or closed for winter ventilation, maintain 16°C if someone is in the bedroom. If no one is home, turn it off completely. The situation is similar in the living room: from 17 to 25°C. At night, 20°C, during the day 22°C if it’s cooler than 25°C. When no one is home, maintain 17°C. In children’s rooms, 18°C, as computers are heated there.
lower noise, E1 is advertise low noise but still noticable noise.
Better on calibration: E1 is not great at calibration, the radiator is turn on fully even the temperature is 0.5 celcius difference. I expect the radiator valve is low when the temperature is close to target temperature.
better window open detection: i have no idea how E1 calculate it, the symbols keep showing up.
It would be good if they mentioned all the improvements, since it seems they only talked about the improvement in energy efficiency and maybe the noise level, but there’s no mention of any software improvements or other noteworthy features.
