Just wifi isn’t enough for the thermostat – it really needs to talk to the mothership. So it has to be on the internet for registration, and you have to have an account. You can’t get an API key unless you register your thermostat at using the 4 character code that the thermostat shows you, and you can’t get that code unless your thermostat also has access to. You can’t get run Homekit Controller without an 8-digit API key. So I finally went through this process today. You are not able to set ‘home’ mode (in UI and from NR, and presumably from all automations).You are not able to get current mode (either in UI or from NR).Root cause off all these might be that HA homekit integration, can call thermostat correctly to change the mode, however it is not able to retrieve it (or sees only ‘home’). Setting ‘home’ mode from Node-red doesn’t work either.If you refresh the page after setting dropdown to ‘Away’, it still shows ‘home’. In UI, ‘home’ doesn’t do anything (even if in away mode, it doesn’t return schedule back to original mode).In addition, the status of ‘select’ always shows ‘home’ even I can see in thermostat that it is set to ‘away’. However calling button to release ‘hold’ returns back to schedule. However setting the mode back to ‘home’ doesn’t work. From node-red I am able to change the select mode (just like from UI).On click ‘Clear hold’ thermostat returns back to schedule on thermostat. However when I reload the page, UI still shows ‘Home’. In UI when I change the mode to Away/Sleep, it change the mode on thermostat.I just integrated ecobee3 lite using homekit controller. If I remember correctly, HA could have also asked to pair the thermostat after I went into the app and tried to go through the process of linking to a Homekit hub… but I’m pretty sure it was the steps listed above. This was a couple of months ago, but what I noticed is that whenever I unpaired my thermostat from the Apple TV Homekit, HA started to recognize the device and asked if I wanted to pair it. Installed the Homekit Integration in order to have the thermostat appear back on the original Homekit hub (Apple TV).I believe I followed the instructions from that notification in order to set up the pairing, which I think was just typing in the code displayed on the thermostat manually into HA.Once unpaired, in the Notifications on HA it asked if I wanted to pair the Ecobee via the Homekit Controller integration.Unpaired my Ecobee 3 Lite thermostat from Homekit (I have an Apple TV that acts as a hub).I’m not exactly sure where a comprehensive guide is, but I had issues initially and eventually figured it out for my case: Unfortunately ecobee can’t be good at everything.Would any of you happen to know where I could find the precise instructions to pair an ecobee with homekit controller? I guess until ecobee figures something out, you can’t go by ecobee for accurate temperature and humidity readings. 5° temperature difference, but an unbelievable 26% difference on humidity. My Davis weather station showed 56.5° and 59% humidity. This morning I checked the temperature on my ecobee 3, it showed 62° with humidity of 33%. It’s hard to believe that the closest weather station that ecobee uses is that far away. My city is pretty big with lots of growth over the last several years, so I’d assume that there would be more stations that ecobee could use. ![]() No wonder the temperature and humidity are way off. I finally called ecobee since they didn’t reply to 2 separate emails (only automated replies) and one of the reddit ecobee moderators I messaged didn’t reply either.Īnyway, ecobee stated the closest weather station to my address is over 9 miles away.
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