Ambi Climate 2 | Smart Air Conditioner Controller for Mini Split ACs | Smart WiFi Thermostat for Minisplit, Window & Portable AC | Compatible with Alexa, Apple Siri, Google Home, IFTTT, iOS & Android

I have a house with a one zone thermostat, so if I want to heat the bedroom, my furnace has to heat the entire house. Closing the registers is not really efficient. So with an air conditioner with heat I can let the bedroom get heat or cool air without causing energy waste on my furnace After purchasing the AC for my bedroom I started looking into how I can manage it most efficiently. I have Nest for my entire house but I would like to manage the energy usage solely for our bedroom. I googled several devices, at least three, and I found an Ambi Device advertisement. It was down to earth and explained in detail what they can do for me. I made contact with Ambi device support team. They were honest in saying that my AC may not work with their device. But they also said since I already ordered it, they would work with me. They gave me a lot of material to look at after communicating with them, I was able to pair my AC with the Ambi device. As expected, the sophistication level of their device is quite high. I had several discussions with their support team and they were able to help me.I found the comfy level switch a good tool since it is supposed to consider environmental variables, such as humidity and outside/inside temperature in configuring what's the suitable running temperature for my AC at a given time. They told me that the comfy level is based on the AI capability of the device. However, it still needs a good history to make it work at its optimum. As a matter of fact, it has "Insights," which sounds like business intelligence tool. I never expected the charts that they created for this device. I have to learn the insights and see how it actually configures the device to utmost optimum level. One measure would be if I don't need to press an extra button to set the right temperature setting for the AC. However, I can manually change the temperature setting. The mode includes Away. Just like any other good device it has Geolocation that tells the device my presence within the radius of the geolocation. I have a Nest device and I think the Ambi device is much better than Nest. One thing that I would like to add to the Ambi device is the capability of Netatmo, which tells me the CO2 and decibel level. I highly recommend this product. By the way the ambi device has more control than the AC remote.

I picked up one of these about 6 months ago. I have a mini-split in my home office (which is detached from the rest of the house - renovated garage) that provides both cooling and heating. The office is not very well insulated (it's old brick), so leaving my unit on auto, cool, or heat would routinely perform better (or worse) depending on the time of the day, humidity levels (it's very humid in the summers where I live), and outdoor temperature. So I picked one up on sale, and decided to give it a shot. For starters, the app is fine. However, you can tell, from the get go, that this app was designed with comfort mode (their "AI" learning system) in mind. The iOS widget only gives you "too hot" or "too cold" options and the main UI basically gives you much of the same. If you want to work in temperature control mode (keep the room at one temperature and adjust it as needed) or manual mode (works just like a remote), you have to dig through menus to get to the settings you want. It's like those functions are bolted on last minute. And the app, as a whole, functions like it was made last minute. Tiny fonts, weirdly named things, poor geolocation that kicks you off of geolocation unless you open the app every day. As a member of the beta community for Ambiclimate, the only new feature added in the last 6 months to the iOS app was the widget, and beta feedback was not taken into consideration. I've complained to support about these seemingly easy fixes with "okay, we'll take it into consideration" or "that's just how it works" (despite other apps not having those problems). So, if you're hoping it will get better or there will be improvement - there won't. Now, onto the functionality. I don't have confidence that this unit's sensors are actually any good, or the AI actually knows what it's doing. In comfort mode (the "AI"-driven mode), there would be plenty of times where it was 90F outside and THE HEAT WOULD COME ON because it thought the room was too cold. Same in the colder months - it can be snowing outside and the A/C would come on. I've even had days where it would get up to 80F in my home office (which is way too warm), the app would say "yep, it's too warm," but continue heating things. It's hilarious how bad it is, especially when you give it feedback literally multiple times a day. Oh, and when it needs to be warmer, it likes to max out your heat temperature, or when it needs to be cooler, max out your A/C temperature. It's a poor implementation that basically thinks the mini-split doesn't have any sort of internal thermostat of its own. And regarding feedback - the "AI" learns what you like by what feedback you give it. That means that you're just replacing your remote for an app - you're still adjusting things just as much, but now you have a cumbersome app to deal with. This is hilariously bad for a smart home device that's supposed to make your life easier. Away mode. My A/C likes to make obnoxious beeps when the temperature is changed. It can be muted, but, as soon as it is turned off and turned back on, the beeps begin again. Away mode will turn off your unit, which, for most people, is probably perfectly fine, but there's no option to disable this. So I still have to have my remote nearby to mute the thing every time I come home. And, on top of that, away mode doesn't differentiate between summer and winter. So if it's winter and you randomly have an 80F day (which we do from time to time), instead of turning the heat off and going down to, say, 60F while away, it will run the A/C extra hard, defeating the economical purposes of any sort of away mode. And since there are no heat/cool breakpoints (like almost every thermostat in the world has), the away setting is completely useless during the spring, where it might be cool one day and hot the next. Smart home integration: the Echo/Alexa commands are finicky at best (and, again, only work in comfort mode), and any other integration just doesn't exist. If you're looking to hook this into your SmartThings system, you better keep looking. Lastly, customer support is hilariously bad. There's a user group on Facebook and staff will reply to you in-app instead of on the Facebook page, like they have something to hide. On top of that, I've had them call me the wrong name and ask for data that no human being would ever collect when I've had issues (the timestamp when you noticed this occurrence, for example - I dunno about you, but I don't keep a notebook next to me to record times when minor details in my life happen). Most apps allow you to send debug data via email with one tap, but this isn't even a thing here either, so they can't even help you. There is never any resolution to issues, and the resolutions I've had, I've had to figure out myself. It just seems like an outsourced PR agency dealing with customer service, not people who actually know about the device. So, all in all, you have an app that under delivers on its feature set, an "AI" that might work sometimes but routinely doesn't, manual functions to replace your remote but require you to go through more work to do the same thing, half-baked geolocation and away functionality, poor smart home connectivity, and some of the worst customer support I've ever dealt with. I'm not saying you shouldn't buy this, but... there are other options on the market that are better.

I just got the unit today and was very excited to connect my panasonic split type ac. A. Initial Setup. Very Simple. Setup was a quick 3 step process. After downloading the app and pairing my ac , I was able to turn on my ac immediately. B. Alexa Integration. Mega Frustrating. Never try this. This is perhaps the worst alexa integration I’ve experienced. I’ve already integrated dozens of Philips Hue bulbs and TPlink smart plugs with ease but not Ambi Climate. Here are my observations : 1. Controlling Ambi via Echo Show is almost impossible. Any voice command did not work. I configured ambi in the “Kitchen”. So whenever I say “ Alexa, ask Ambi to on ac in the kitchen”. Alexa’a replies are ; “Sorry I didn’t find the c in the kitchen” or “sorry I didnt find the a in the kitchen” or “Sorry I didnt find the ac in the kitchen” 2. The key word “ask ambi” is too long. It would be simpler if I could just utter “ Alexa, turn on ac” C. Verdict. If you don’t plan to use Echo, this should be ok. However if you are like me who wants to centralize all smart home devices via echo, DO NOT BUY THIS. Purchase sensibo instead