Overview

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Data

Each metric shows how many homes you are comparing to as well as a histogram plotting the values of all homes, including yours, in your comparison group.

Property

This simply shows how your physical home stacks up against other homes in your comparison group. As a practical point, it may be useful to know if your home is older than most other homes as that will factor in to how you interpret other metric

Setpoint

This measures your average setpoint during appropriate thermostat modes. For example, heat setpoints are not included in the average when your thermostat is set to cool mode. This metric basically shows you if you prefer to keep your home warmer or cooler than other users.

Setback

Setback is the current difference between your home and away temperatures on your ecobee schedule. Note that this metric is looking at current data, not an average of all historical data.

Runtime Per Degree Day

This is the most confusing of all metrics, but also one of the most informative. It shows you how long (in minutes) your heat or cooling runs per degree day. This is not a super useful metric on it's own, but it's helpful when comparing to others.

In order to do that comparison, a few things have to happen. First, imagine you want to compare heat runtime of two identical homes in two different climates. The home in the cooler climate will run more, so comparing runtime directly isn't very helpful.

To fix that, the runtime needs to be normalized against outdoor temperature. This is done simply by dividing the total runtime by the average temperature* during that same time period. Now the two homes are comparable.

Instead of average temperature, beestat uses degree days. Learn more at the following page:

What are Degree Days?

Balance Point