EconoHome Wall Mount Smart Space Heater Panel - Pairs with eWeLink App - 400W Convection Heater - For 120 Sq Ft Room - 120V

I installed this in my daughter’s small bathroom. Replaced a loud, ugly, built-in forced-air wall heater with a yellowed plastic cover from the ‘70s. This new heater does a great job heating this small room. Would probably work in larger spaces. I didn’t get a plug-in thermostat, I just use the eWeLink app to set an on/off schedule. Installing the app definitely gave me the vibe I was sharing all my personal info with China... but I’m pretty sure they’ve already got it. I bought the version with the glass heat guard. Feels nice and warm to the touch but won’t burn my kiddo if she puts a hand on it. I think it looks really nice too. The pictures don’t really do it justice. Now to the two big items: 1. The smell. Yep. It’s awful. I actually left it out of the box on my back porch for over two months (I was gutting and redoing the entire bathroom and got busy with my day job so my project was delayed)... got ready to install and it the smell was STILL strong. The fix? I put it in my garage and plugged it in. Ran it for two days (turned it off at night). The smell is gone. No issues whatsoever. I feel bad for the folks that hung it on a wall and ran it immediately. It would definitely be overpowering. Do yourself a favor, unpack it outside and then plug it in outside, in a garage/shed, etc. Let it run. Grab a beer. Drink in moderation for a couple of days and when you come back it’ll be right as rain. 2. Customer Service. I’m blown away. EconoHome Inc shocked me with quick and fantastic customer service. As mentioned above, I unpackaged the heater and let us sit for a several months... so it was only when I went to install that I realized I was missing the plastic brackets that hold the glass heat guard in place. I’m 99% sure that I tossed them out with the packaging. I didn’t have much luck getting the company on the phone, but Amazon got me an email address and EconoHome was super-fast with their response. Even though I let them know I probably tossed the parts, they sent me a new set free of charge. Even sent me a follow-up email after the parts arrived to make sure I was good. Blown-away. A couple of other wall heaters in my home need to be replaced and I’ll definitely go with these convection heaters and will definitely buy from EconoHome. For bonus fun, checkout their website EconoHome dot net for a video of dad starting a wood fire in the living room.

9 month follow up. This thing STILL stinks. It’s now on its 2nd coat of paint after 1 coat of primer and I cannot contain whatever odor the substrate emanates. *3 month follow up. Even after running this thing for 2 days outside, let it dry. Painted it, ram it outside for. 3rd day, months later it still stinks. Do not buy this. For starters, the good seems to be that the overall panel gets surprisingly warm for a claimed 400W heater. I put it in my garage to run for awhile given the reports of the smell it generated. It's about 40*F out there and it's warm/hot to the touch even "outside" in the garage. I'll update this review with how well it holds up the cold rooms in the house upstairs and far from the furnace. There is a major gripe though. This seems like a typical Chinese made, poorly designed and low effort IoT type thing where they spent more time making the Amazon website graphics than thinking how customers would want the smart app integration to work. For starters, there is no pairing instructions in the box, so you just hope you know where to get the app or Google it. Then, the app is a very low ~2.5-3.0 star review so you know it's low effort. Pairing took awhile after I guessed which of the ~5 presented pairing options to use. Once it paired though, I was frustrated to see the mobile app integration is literally a dumb on/off switch. I think a reasonable person would assume that a heater sold in 2020 with "wifi/mobile app capability" had on/off, schedule, timer, and a thermostat capability. If you want to be able to set a thermostat, you might as well buy their (also janky and low rated) wifi thermostat plug, that uses the same janky ewelink Chinese app, that lets you set a temperature/schedule etc. Why they make a heater with "wifi" built in but then a separate plug you could just use with their cheapest non-wifi heating panel and get more functionality makes no sense. It seems like the Amazon page listing is intentionally vague about this not being a feature. I am sort of regretting this purchase, and may need to see if I can find a more American made/designed panel that includes a thermostat so I don't have to babysit if these get left on in my kids rooms.

The Good: it's silent, works as expected, looks decent, with a thermostat (not this one) you can make a room that's normally cold feel very normal and not know it was ever cooler then other parts of the home. The Bad: Very strong stinky feet smell out of the box. The smell gets very strong once it heats up. I'd suggest running it outside for a day or two in the wind before mounting. The thermostat it comes with is pure junk. The plug on mine stopped working within a week. Lastly, the plastic clips that hold the glass don't fit as snug as one would hope. It holds the glass, but it's certainly not very tight. LUX makes a programmable thermostat that is a great product. It doesn't have app control but it works like a charm. In conclusion it does what I need and I still recommend it in the end. It does have plenty of room for improvement. All the little things add up though.

The toxic smell is terrible and I believe it could be bad for your health but after three days it dissipated in no longer smells. I didn’t have to paint it or anything to get the smell to go away it just disappeared on its own after leaving it on all day for three days. The Wi-Fi feature seems worthless to me because all you can do is turn it on and off. I thought it would show me the temperature but it doesn’t. I have to use it in combination with a floor standing space heater to get my large bedroom to 68 degrees. It is sleek looking and discreet but don’t pay extra for the Wi-Fi and if you have a large bedroom you’ll have to get two of them.

Two out of 3 of the ones we purchased have faulty switches and won't stay on at a after one year. Poor durability and dissapointing one year life. --------- These work great when they work! They easily heat up one room, like a bedroom if you cycle them on and off 2 to 3 hours before you want to be there in that room. They're long term heaters not 30 minute heaters like a space heater. We like to set them to go on about 8pm and 4am so the room is not freezing right before bed and right when wake up. Problem is that the on switch wiring or connection is faulty. The heater just turns off even when it's in the on position. The ON/OFF switch is so loose that it just stops making any connection. Also if you touch the on off button it makes crackling electricity sounds. The issue with this is that if the device is off then wifi won't turn it on in the night. You have to manually turn it on and since it takes several hours to heat a room that's useless for the morning. It kinda defeats the whole purpose. The difficult thing is we loved these heaters so much that we bought FOUR and 2 out of 4 just randomly turn off (not disconnect from internet...like they are plugged in but the connection is loose). So 50 % are buggy and one started failing after one year and the other after THREE MONTHS (and we don't use them in the summer). It's not a "failsafe" mode but an actual loose connection... So I went all around recommending these to everyone and now I'm like 😩

This is the safest room heater I’ve found. It doesn’t blast heat out and warm a room up in ten minutes. It can’t do that, and that’s not how it’s made to work. Instead, this heater is raidiates warmth across its four square feet of surface area. It’s only 400 watts, and while it gets quite warm, it doesn’t get hot enough to burn your hand if you touch the surface. Also, if your chair is accidentally touching the heater, it isn’t hot enough to cause ignition. I looked into adding a thermostat, but didn’t add one. It is possible, but the strategy that’s send to work with this thing is different. Let me tell you about my use case. I have a small, 64 square foot, recording studio. During COVID I started using the space as a home office. I’ve replaced the little forced air heater that occupied 3 square feet of my small work space with this panel heater. The small forced air heater could warm up the room in about ten minutes, but the fan was noisy and the floor space was a bit of an issue. The panel heater gives me back floor space, and it is silent. The silent feature is good for a recording studio and an office where video calls are the norm. The panel heater requires about 30 minutes to get the room from 40 Fahrenheit to 68. The panel heater has some mass, this means that the panel(s) themselves have to warm up before they warm the room. When you turn it off, th e panels will continue to radiate heat into th e panels cool down. The panels are on or off. There is no “low” mode. So the strategy that seems to work with this thing is to use the WiFi controller to automatically turn the panel on 30 minutes before I plan on using the space in the morning. I leave th e heater on all day and set the timer to shut off an hour before the end of my work day. If the room gets too warm, I just open the door for a few seconds. Another pleasant feature- I installed the panel 12” from the floor. Heat rises, so the top half of this space is warmer than the floor. But the panel heater radiates heat at leg level, making the room uniformly warm. I like the heater enough that I may add a learning thermostat and hardwire the unit. It’s a treat.

The unit shipped to me with a Sonoff WIFI smart switch mounted to the rear of the unti for wifi smart switch control. It has run OK for a couple of heating seasons. this year when I turned it on, had a bad smell and unit was intermittently working. Took it off the wall and found the smart switch was overheating and melting down. Lucky I found it before a fire. I removed the switch and installed a smart wifi switch in a wall outlet and now plug this into that, much safer.

We have many of these heaters and they are great and look amazing, either with the ones covered with glass, or the other ones that have been painted the same color as the wall. They make no noise. Yes, they are kind of smelly, so even the ones that have a glass shield get pained with 2 coats of a quality paint with integrated primer. They would be uncomfortable to have skin contact for any length of time, but with pets or kids, there is zero risk of burring. If a customer bought this item combo hoping to control the temperature, and are frustrated or dismayed that it is not possible out of the box, there are two workarounds: It seems that when powered off (with the red rocker switch) or unplugged, the default behavior was to have the panel off when power was returned to the device. After much playing around, and it is not in the literature BUT when on the device screen, the three little dots in the upper right corner give the device settings. Scroll down to "Power-on State" and choose ON or "Last State" rather than "Off." So now if the panel is plugged into a thermostat switch, like any of your EconoHome thermostats, will turn the power on or off, and then the panel, if the "last state" was "on" or if the option "on" were to be chosen, then it comes back on. That being said, I know when the thermostat switched the panel off, then it would no respond to Wifi so on a hunch, I bought this: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09ZXY7V4F?psc=1&ref=ppx_yo2ov_dt_b_product_details, which is a "hardwire" thermostat which works with eWeLink. I put a standard plug into the "In" terminals and left the "out" terminals empty. I linked it with eWeLink, and then with the two devices, I created two scenes with conditions, one for the heater being off when the thermostat is > 26C and another one when the heater being on when the thermostat is < 25C. I really hope this helps someone. Overall the heater gets 5 stars, and the app is just fine. It just needs a thermostat added if someone wants that, and it is obviously a little tricky.