@bhepler Thanks for your feedback. I’ll be sure to check out Parts Express. In the meantime I did get a cheap set of speakers off amazon and will attempt disassembly for my cabinet. I may end up just modifying the cases they’re in rather than completely disassembling them though. And if all that fails I’ll look at doing a direct build off of parts from Parts Express.

Chiming in as an Ecobee user. The Ecobee is cool/nice/whatever, but what you don’t get from it vs the Nest is the “learning”. Yes, the nest follows exactly what you do initially, but eventually it starts to learn things like, “Oh, you regularly come home on Wednesdays at about 2 pm. Well, we’ll start adding that into the routine.”

The Ecobee is a straight schedule. I admit, it’s a highly customizable schedule, but it’s still just a schedule. It’s got tie-ins to ITTT, homekit, etc. You can add multiple room sensors and tie in automated vents that open/close based on the needs and occupancy status in a particular room which was the real big seller for me.

Nest has all of their smoke detectors that tie into it and have some really cool features.

You really just have to compare feature sets with your needs and understand that for the majority of add-on features, they will both likely support them in the future at some point.

Chiming in as an Ecobee user. The Ecobee is cool/nice/whatever, but what you don’t get from it vs the Nest is the “learning”. Yes, the nest follows exactly what you do initially, but eventually it starts to learn things like, “Oh, you regularly come home on Wednesdays at about 2 pm. Well, we’ll start adding that into the routine.”

The Ecobee is a straight schedule. I admit, it’s a highly customizable schedule, but it’s still just a schedule. It’s got tie-ins to ITTT, homekit, etc. You can add multiple room sensors and tie in automated vents that open/close based on the needs and occupancy status in a particular room which was the real big seller for me.

Nest has all of their smoke detectors that tie into it and have some really cool features.

You really just have to compare feature sets with your needs and understand that for the majority of add-on features, they will both likely support them in the future at some point.

@bhepler Thanks for your feedback. I’ll be sure to check out Parts Express. In the meantime I did get a cheap set of speakers off amazon and will attempt disassembly for my cabinet. I may end up just modifying the cases they’re in rather than completely disassembling them though. And if all that fails I’ll look at doing a direct build off of parts from Parts Express.

Appreciate the input. My screen is going to be mounted in a custom walnut cabinet so I would like to have the speakers facing out the sides, but built-in to the cabinet.

My thought was to buy a decent set of computer speakers (cheap to test my theory), dismantle the boxes they come in and rebuilding the speaker boxes so they’re integrated into the frame/cabinet itself. Just didn’t know if there was a speaker kit ootb that I could use that would sound good vs having to Frankenstein something together.

Anyone have any good recommendations for small, yet good quality speakers that they’ve used or could see a use for with their mirrors? I’m not building a mirror, but a daily schedule board/calendar/lunch menu/etc. It’s got a touch screen and I would like to include the ability to stream spotify on it, and interact with it via voice commands. Having said that, I would like the sound quality to be pretty good vs tinny and crap like you get from many built-in monitor speakers or laptop speakers. Just curious if anyone had used something that produced a light to moderate amount of base as well as good mid and high range sound too.

Appreciate any input.

Adam