Basic questions about Honeywell T6 Zwave Tstats and Ecobee Tstats

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I gather that Hubitat communicates directly to Honeywell Zwave thermostats.

Yes? No?

How does Hubitat communicate with Ecobee Smart Thermostat (Enhanced and Premium)?

Thanks, Frederick

2

Yes

Via ecobee’s cloud. However if you throw HA in the mix, then this can also be fully local.

3

Hi,

Thanks for the reply.

Is there an existing 3rd party device, some driver code or some documentation for creating some driver code for communicating with the Ecobee thermostats aside from the one device that I find when I go to add a device in the Hubitat?

Frederick

4

All code is available to see how it's done. As to documentation to creating drivers hubitat has available Groovy libraries. (Groovy is basically java)

5

Pardon my ignorance, but if HA can do it, is there no mechanism that HE can use for the same?

6

There isn't currently. For this to happen, Hubitat will have to support something like HA's HomeKit Device integration (used to be called HomeKit Controller).

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Hi,

I have created drivers but that requires knowing how to communicate with the hardware you are interested in monitoring/controlling.

What I don't have is the documentation on the Ecobee Thermostats communication protocol.

With the Honeywell I can use one of the built-in drivers or one of the 3rd party ones.

But I like the Ecobee units better when it comes to the user interface they present to the homeowner.

Thanks, Frederick

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If you want to directly write your own app to interact with ecobee's API, then here's a link to ecobee's developer API.

https://developer.ecobee.com/home/developer/api/introduction/index.shtml

If you want documentation on Hubitat's built-in ecobee integration, you'll find more details here:

https://docs2.hubitat.com/en/apps/ecobee-integration

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