Flair Smart Vent 4x12 (White), AC Vent Cover for Floors, Walls and Ceilings.

Wasn’t sure how these would work, but I’m super happy with them. They work exactly as they are supposed to. Highly recommend the Flair pucks to go with them as there is less delay opening and closing with the heater compared to using an ecobee sensor. Also contacted customer service a couple times and their support is incredible.

I waited way too long to purchase my Flair vent system as I was leaning towards a zoned duct control system instead. The costs would have been significantly higher (up to 5 times more in parts alone) but also the install would have been a major pain for me to DIY. The Flair vents were easy to install, the app setup was straightforward with the light layout on the vents used to identify which ones were for which rooms. I love that I can set the schedule to deactivate rooms when they are not in use and have it regulate the temperature in the active ones during those days/times. I did mess up a setting by changing the Default Hold Duration setting to forever (supposed to be the default option Until Next Scheduled Event) which caused my schedule not to work but Flair support got this identified and resolved quickly. I now have everything how I want it and the room leveling is perfect (was up to 5-6 degrees difference in some rooms). It is also awesome to be able to change the temperature on-demand in the rooms when needed. So far I am very happy with my purchase, but wish I had done this sooner.

Having run these vents for over a year now (since September 2022), I've found their functionality to be reliable. A rating of this product with only one star seems unfair and likely stem from a misunderstanding of its technical capabilities and intended function. The basic functionality of the vents is to shut off a room from being heated or cooled. They respond to trigger temperatures, and this will open or close the valve automatically. The vents lack a built-in temperature sensor and need a Flair Puck (available from Flair) or the temperature sensors of the thermostat (in my case Ecobee). Successful operation requires a Flair Puck (as gateway) and a robust Wi-Fi connection. Overall, I found that the Vents/Puck installation does not require an above average technical understanding (though some technical familiarity is necessary). What is very counter intuitive is the app settings. It is clearly made by engineers and is not very user friendly. The software doesn't feel very mature yet. A couple of items which helped me get the system to do what I want. This is for a home with a smart thermostat: 1) After integration of your smart thermostat go to 'home settings/thermostats' and turn off 'Allow flair to adjust thermostat'. The scheduling and temp control of the flair system is significantly less sophisticated than your smart thermostat and you want to prevent this app from overriding your home settings. 2) Stay in 'home setting' and go to the 'System' section. Set 'Set point controller' to 'Thermostat'. Same reason as point 1 3) Only create rooms in the app where you have Flair Vents. I installed Flair vents in rooms which I want to close off from my forced air heating/cooling system when not occupied (I have a larger house 6000 sq.ft.). You will need to have a temp sensor in each of these rooms, either a Puck or a thermostat sensor. The flair Puck is 2x the price of an Ecobee sensor, so it was an easy choice for me. Zones are created automatically by the flair app when you complete the smart thermostat integration. I have two zones as I have two Ecobees in my home. 4) Get a cup of coffee and patiently start making the schedules per room/room group/zone. It is a tedious affair. I had to make one for the winter and one for the summer as Flair works with a single trigger value for both cooling and heating. Normally your trigger temperature for cooling is set higher than your trigger temperature for heating, so a single trigger value didn’t work for me. Set ‘Mode’ to ‘Auto’, the flair system will detect whether the system is heating or cooling, prompting Flair to adjust the open/close action accordingly. 5) Go to 'Device settings' and turn off 'Push notifications' and 'Geofencing'. These functions are redundant when using a smart thermostat. 6) I would recommend to not install Smart vents in Bathrooms. I learned this after my install. You want Bathrooms to be warm. In the winter, the vent has to be all open to let the heat in, in summer fully closed to keep the cold AC out. This can easily be done by a regular (mechanical) vent, which you open/close before the summer and winter period. The issue with using smart vents is that the APP will open vents to ensure a minimum of vents are open to safeguard your AC system. Unfortunately you can not dictate which of the smart vents it will open (or keep closed). This results in frequent freezing bathrooms. Also, the Smart vents are not able to provide a 100% closed vent. The system works great and does what I intended it to do. The flair engineers created an over complicated app by inserting features which are (and should only be) controlled by your smart thermostat. Turn that off. The scheduling is tedious, but you will need to do it to get the max out of your flair system. Best of luck in your implementation! -----###----- Edit: I have been running my system without the bridge for years without any issues. I'm adding this comment because I believe the Flair marketing of the new bridge device is misleading. It suggests you need the device even if you have a solid home Wi-Fi network, which is incorrect. Be aware that this system is cloud based (not sure why) so Flair severs are required to operate the system. If your Internet down so are your vents (open in case of lost connectivity). Even worse if Flair goes out of business your system is inoperable. An alternative to Flair vents are vents from "Keen home". Have a look, read the reviews and make your pick.

Flair 100% missed the mark with the vent cover. Our 6x10 units measure 7x12 to the outside. That's only 1/2 an inch of gap coverage vertically. They didn't cover a single opening completely on any of our 15 vents. Super frustrating. I have to make backer plates for all of these. Out of 5 vents I purchased, 2 wouldn't power on right out of the box. I tried reinstalling the battery covers multiple times. Nothing would happen. The app leaves a lot to be desired. You can set all kinds of things, but with the integration to our ecobee thermostat you really have no idea what the system is doing. I got these because we have a newborn and her room is cold. We set the thermostat to 72, but when I installed the puck the system went back to 70. Our thermostat is in the kitchen which doesn't need to be 72. It seems things are fighting each other. It would be nice to have a simple view that says what the system is trying to do. The room is set to 72, while the sensor temp is 67 and the hvac isn't even kicking on because the main thermostat is at the right temp. This defeats any purpose for these vents.

So it's clear that Ecobee's homeowner Ecobee-Flair documentation is hilariously inadequate. In fact, it appears Ecobee's and Flair's co-integration is basically non-existent. Plenty of BLOWHARD feature documentation, with little or no concrete, tactical integration documentation between the two companies. Inexcusable, really, given that the two companies are integration partners. Had I known, I would have NEVER purchased either product. I have had to learn how to implement them independently from each other-a pain in the neck and a waste of time and effort, but doable. Trying to figure out how to integrate the systems together using hearsay from the Web has been more difficult still. I would be ashamed if it/they were my products, held out as premium in the marketplace. And both the Ecobee and Flair Smart Vents are well-constructed and designed. Making the black hole of of integration documentation between the two that much more unforgivable. If I hadn't already spent the time and money and gotten rid of the old equipment, I'd pack both products back up and return them to Amazon. Both companies should be embarrassed.