Ecobee thermostat via HomeKit controller

Note as well that Ecobee supports local push, but you have to use the HomeKit device integration for it instead of the Ecobee integration. Only minor downside though is HomeKit is it doesn't have allp the features of the cloud integration, though it's mostly minor things specific to Ecobee. Actually on that note from what I understand the Ecobee cloud integration is currently impossible to set up for new users anyway since they've locked the developer portal.

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The problem Ecobee is connected using Homekit integration and not updating the temperature entities. Upon start, the Ecobee's Current Temperature entity, and remote Ecobee temperature sensors, have the value set properly with the correct temperature. After the initial start, those entities are never updated. Days or weeks later those value have not been updated, still showing the initial reading on boot/start. I tried a debug log but see no entries for this. Also, I did not find any doc/info on how to debug this issue so I used ChatGPT and tried this, but no entries show for Homekit [code] …

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