It either monitors for patterns in when you adjust the heat and tries to adapt to those patterns, or it monitors when you are home for the same reason. Then it sends that data to Google, Amazon, etc for them to try to use to figure out how to get you to buy stuff.I'm curious - what does a "smart" thermostat do?
Personally, I'd just stick with a decent programmable thermostat, which doesn't have to guess your schedule, because you tell it the schedule. If any feature of a smart thermostat were going to be of interest to me, it would actually be logging temperature and runtime, which could help keep an eye out for trends like worsening performance, as well as approximate energy consumption. But those are hardly must-have features, so I haven't had any motivation to replace my programmable thermostat.
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