EcoNet Reviews: Is It Legit?

EcoNet
EcoNet
Rheem Manufacturing Company

Customer Experience

Positive experience15.2% of reviews
Neutral13.5% of reviews
Negative experience71.3% of reviews

~ Based on 519 written reviews from the US App Store.

What users say about EcoNet

Is EcoNet Safe?

EcoNet appears safe based on user ratings. AppsHunter Safety Score for EcoNet is 88/100.

This assessment is based on 14,191 user ratings, with an App Store average of 4.4/5.

Safety Analysis

85.0% of ratings point to a safe experience
3.6% of ratings suggest some concerns
11.4% of ratings point to a risky experience

~ Based on 13,136 App Store ratings for EcoNet.

Is EcoNet Legit?

EcoNet appears to be a legitimate app. AppsHunter Legitimacy Score for EcoNet is 100/100.

Based on 100 of 100 points across 7 verification signals from App Store and developer data.

Top reviews

Cannot connect

Cannot connect

Fail

Cannot connect to water heater via the new app. I can’t login on old app any more and there no way I can connect via WiFi now.

Erratic WiFi

Totally obnoxious too reset your Wi-Fi with this app

Away mode doesn’t work

Despite repeated attempts with Econet’s tech support this app continues to be useless. Setting the water heater to Away mode either manually or via a scheduled vacation puts it in Away mode for a few hours before it goes back to Home mode by itself. Incredibly frustrating that this simple use case doesn’t work.
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WiFi drops often

The WiFi on this unit constantly drops. And when you try to reconnect it is near impossible. I regret buying this system all together.

Can’t connect

Can’t connect

It works

It’s a basic programmable thermostat with remote access. Nothing special.
It’s a bit hard to understand why it doesn’t show the current status (running/not running) for my Rheem heat pump when the thermostat itself does. Seems like very basic functionality.

Doesn’t work away from home

Was traveling and wanted to switch my thermostats to “Away” and couldn’t communicate with them. Called customer service and got the usual dumb questions….are you on wi-fi?…Maybe try another…Close and reopen app…and the real winner - are you at the thermostat now? If I were, I would just press the Away button! Can you have someone go to the house? Of course not you moron! That was the extent of the over the phone tech support. They were going to escalate it and I would get a call back within 24 hours. I couldn’t just be transferred to someone. Great. I’m traveling and could be anywhere when they call. But that was the best they could do. Pathetic support. If you have a choice, between this and Ring or some other, take it
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Rheem Furnace/HVAC

I'm having issues with the furnace not operating. There is a tool to check the history. There are options for 24 hours or 7 days. Mine is set to 24 hours. Since the furnace has not been working, there is no history in the past 24 hours. It raises a banner indicating no history is available. To clear the banner you have tap OKAY. This closes the History tool so there is no way for me to change it to 7 days and see if there is any history going back a week. I’m thoroughly unimpressed with both the app and the furnace.
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How to delete?

App works fine, but won’t allow me to delete the first water heater and keeps yelling at me that it is disconnected!
Can’t find the secret sauce to remove the old one.

Should be better

Docking one star for the lame chart that scrunches data to the left, instead of filling out the entire day.
Docking one star for “vacation mode”, in that you can’t take it out of vacation mode unless you are at the unit’s keypad - what good is that ?
Docking one star just for the unit itself, that heat pump hybrid is a joke, nothing but warm water and no money savings unless you program for only 6 hours a day for Hybrid mode. Gave up, sold it, and installed a propane tankless unit, much better now and the spouse is happy.
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Not good enough

Simply doesn’t compare to other systems like the nest etc. extremely basic features

Walk in freezer

Spent $2000 on the EcoNet thermostat to hook to my walk-in freezer. After countless hours, I am still unable to connect the EcoNet thermostat to the app. Customer support has been Little to no help.

Saves moolah

With the timer and the over-ride the water heater still looks like new after several years. Great product.

Keeps dropping WiFi

Unfortunately the app loses connectivity to the router and it’s default mode kicks in

Certificates are broke

The certificate fqdn doesn’t match , rendering the app unusable.

Hot Water

I would like to review power usage during the vacation mode without changing modes. Haven’t found how to do that.

Awesome

Excellent app

New app won’t find Water Heater

Worked great until they forced the switch to this new app. Now my device doesn’t show up and won’t detect.

Jus ok

I’ve had a few problems with the app. It’s been ok lately but sometimes it wouldn’t connect.