The multiple sensors with an Ecobee will probably be great for you. You set up a schedule and each period is associated with a "comfort setting". That comfort setting sets target temperatures, if you're usually home or usually away, and which sensors you want the thermostat to take into account in that comfort setting. My "wake up" setting only takes into account the bedroom sensor. All other settings take into account the bedroom, kitchen and living room sensors. None of the settings take into account the thermostat's built in sensor.
Fantastic! That sounds like it's exactly what I want! So do you think it pretty much averages out the temperatures and aims for that?
If I had $5K to fritter away, I might consider one of those networked air register systems that give you faux zones in every room, while balancing the system to not harm your blower. But I don't have that money
I'll try and not measure the speed of my zwave network. It's never bothered me before, and I certainly don't want to start noticing and have to swap out all my switches.
Chances are it isn't nearly as bad as mine was. It was terrible. We almost always had moments of "ugh, when are these lights going to turn on?" and then 15 seconds later they mostly would. It was completely unreliable.
That's not to say HomeKit is perfect and never fails, but it's FAR more reliable and about 1000x faster than MY zwave network was.
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