Ecobee thermostat

Ecobee can be connected via HomeKit to avoid the cloud.

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… done based by specifying homekit in your manifest and adding a config flow step `async_step_homekit`. Once discovered, we can prompt users to log in to Ecobee via the website. Ecobee has been found a few times in our gathered Homekit models.

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What's wrong with using ecoBee? You can control it completely (along with all door/window/room sensors using HomeKit. That's how I have mine integrated into HA. I find their cloud service to be somewhat meh, but the HomeKit integration pretty nice and robust.

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Ecobee is good, supports homekit_controller which is fully local

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The 99190-004 won't work with the HomeKit integration for HomeAssistant? Kind of confusing what things can and can't work with that. My Ecobee thermostat works great though... better than the native Ecobee integration IMO.

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I am very happy with my Ecobee thermostat despite local control being somewhat of a round about thing using homekit. Roborock vacuum has been excellent. I am prepared to be flamed for this but I put Aqara in the terrible side purely for inconsistently. I have a double gang toggle switch which has never failed me. On the other hands I have had multiple sensor out right fail and become useless. It's just been hit or miss for me.

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I have been using my ecobee for quite some time now via HomeKit . Fewer controls vs the cloud API option but it has been fairly rock solid other than a firmware update that changed the way the room sensors where IDed but that was minor.

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I actually had a Nest at my old place and the instructions to get it working in HA are why I never bothered to add it. Our new place came with an Ecobee, which is homekit compatible so it was a piece of cake. You shouldn't feel bad for having had a hard time at it.

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I went from the Ecobee cloud integration to HK and back to cloud. HK is nice but it doesn't expose certain things like fan control or custom comfort profiles.

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Ecobee works great locally with the HomeKit integration.

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Sensi or Ecobee thermostat for local control in HA?. I've been in the process of "de-googling" my home with the remaining two devices to replace, being a Nest thermostat and a Google Nest hello doorbell. Both of which are currently being used with HA. I've done a lot of research and reading through posts regarding both the Sensi touch and the Ecobee premium thermostats and am still undecided on which to go with. Local control is paramount in making my decision to replace the Nest. Given that, I think that setting up via the Homekit integration in HA is likely the best option to accomplish …

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Simply re-iterating what /u/ssjucrono said. Use HomeKit. It’s what I use and it functions perfectly for those sensors. No idea why the native Ecobee integration doesn’t. Also, it’s local polling when using HomeKit (most of the time), so that’s nice if your Internet or their servers go out.

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Certain things should be setup independently. I do have the EcoBee in HASS via the HomeKit controller integration so I get local control versus the cloud dependant EcoBee one.

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Where are you located? In the US, the HVAC is usually controlled by the thermostat... So agnostic of the hardware for the actual system. I am using Ecobee and it's working wonderfully. You can also get HA to talk to it on the local network vs. via the cloud using Apple Home kit integration.

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I have an ecobee and its integration through homekit is pretty good, I can see and control the main thermostat and see the status from all the remote room sensors attached to it.

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Ecobee here as well using the homekit integration, it works great. Even the room sensors are exposed properly and you can see the data from them as well. It'll need a cloud connection to get setup and update the weather, but from testing the homekit functionality still works even if it can't get to the internet.

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I'm using them with HomeAssistant, but bringing them in via HomeKit. Basically, I'm having HA pretend to be a HomeKit hub to bring them in because EcoBee shut off their developer API earlier this year. The reliability is pretty solid, even with my setup. Basically, the thermostats are on a different VLAN than HomeAssistant which runs as a docker swarm service, the mDNS traffic for HomeKit is proxied through to my regular network using an mDNS repeater on my router and then HomeAssistant runs as a macvlan container on my network. Even with that weird-ass setup they're pretty solid.

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I use the ecobee premium via homekit. It's nice and has a beautiful UI. However, in retrospect now that I know more about Home Assistant I'm finding I want to put all my thermostat smarts in HA not directly in the thermostat. If I were buying again with what I know now, I'd be looking at Honeywell. Something smart enough to be able to control but then program all the logic into HA.

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I use an Ecobee and it works flawlessly with the homekit setup, love it, no need for a dev key

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… it's faster when outside home, integrates with those few outliers that HA doesn't support like ADT security - Homekit in general, my Hunter Ceiling Fans, Ecobee, so easy to integrate and homebridge is wonderful - Ikea smart home sensors like water, contact, remote switches, AAA batteries are so much better than finding button cells - Zigbee in general, the bigger your mesh more stable it gets kind of encourages expansion, I have a 96 device mesh now - Roborock vaccum the max v ultra series - Navien Gas Tankless Water Heater comes with gas usage monitoring - GE Smart Water Softner - comes with …

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I got a used ecobee for $50. You can integrate pretty seamlessly with HA. You don’t need ecobee temp or occupancy sensors, you are using HA. Use the sensors in HA.

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Ecobee (thermostats at least) can be connected to HA via the HomeKit integration and voila! Fully local and full featured control.

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You can just pull in the ecobee into home assistant using the HomeKit integration and you’ll always have local control.

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Only downside is you can’t configure the outside temperature to use a non cloud source. Otherwise it is all local via HomeKit. I have two of them.

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This will be my next thermostat (or equivalent at the time) when my ecobee dies. Or if they pull homekit support. Currently using it with homekit so everything is fully local, but if this changes it'll go. Got it for a steal 6+ years ago because of my electricity companies rebate program. I still consider it a good deal for the money given how long I've had it and considering my knowledge with smart homes at that time. But if they pull the BS like they did with the original ecobee to make it fully dumb or stop working, it's gone!

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I recommend ecobee, fully local via HA's HomeKit support.

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Ecobee doesn't allow any new API access if you don't already have it setup. Homekit is the only way now.

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? My Ecobee supports Homekit, which is a local protocol and has support built right into HA.

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You can integrate the Ecobee using a Homekit option for pure local access. I have two and love hte ability to control the temperature remotly. While there is an App, there is also a Website that you can use. With the sensors, you can see what hte temps are in the various rooms of your house and even plan temp schedules around the sensors.

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Ecobee hands down. Can do cloud or local.

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Last week someone posted that we can use the Ecobee integration again, and low and behold, it worked. I switched back to the Ecobee integration from Homekit since it exposes the custom comfort settings vice just Heat Cool. Sharing is caring

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I swapped to an Ecobee last year as a renter. It was relatively easy (pretty simple installation and wiring) and required very little from the HA side. I still feel like the integration is rock solid and setting up automations/scenes/schedules was easy. Idk if it’s the most technically capable thermostat out there, but it was definitely the right choice for me!

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Just use via Homekit. It connects directly to Home Assistant locally; no cloud or API needed.

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The API is now open. I just deleted my Homekit connection and use only the Ecobee integration.

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… the issue: 0.66.0.b2 Last working Home Assistant release (if known): Operating environment (Hass.io/Docker/Windows/etc.): Hassbian Component/platform: ecobee Description of problem: Since I already have my ecobee on homekit it duplicated and even showed the temperature as 152 F. Is fixed after I exclude the climate domain. https://imgur.com/a/wcwG2 Problem-relevant `configuration.yaml` entries and (fill out even if it seems unimportant): [code] Traceback (if applicable): [code] Additional information:

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Pairing Ecobee thermostats doesn't currently work with HomeKit Controller. Projected to be working when 0.94 is released. https://github.com/home-assistant/home-assistant/issues/15336

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… to set presets through the official iOS home app on an iPhone or iPad? I haven't tried as I would have to re-pair Homekit with Home app. However, the Ecobee support page implies this is possible. See https://support.ecobee.com/hc/en-us/articles/115004905767-ecobee-and-HomeKit-Set-up-Scenes-and-Troubleshooting --- HomeKit scenes are a way to adjust your thermostat and other HomeKit accessories using a voice command. For example, telling Siri “I’m leaving” will set your thermostat to your Away Comfort setting. You can set up any number of HomeKit enabled devices to work together and respond to …

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If you block access to the cloud account on ecobee even when it's coupled with homekit, you can't make any adjustments in HA. Besides, that would only work connecting ecobee to homekit if you already have an iproduct. I personally went with the Honewell T6 Pro Zwave and use my temp sensors around the house that are already connected to HA for automations. I moved completely off of nest for the reason of requiring local control only and the "Works with Nest" api fiasco that google killed off.

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Ecobee is actually locally controllable using the homekit integration. Some features aren't available, but the basics are there.

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… setup the control is local, but the HomeKit interface is not as rich as the native one. For example, the native interface shows the temperature at the thermostat, the sensor(s), and what the thermostat considers the house temperature to be (average of the sensors, weighted by which rooms are occupied). The HomeKit interface shows any non-thermostat sensors and the calculated house temperature, but not the temperature at the thermostat. I'm evaluating both interfaces and am gravitating towards HomeKit for control but native for sensors.

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