Holy crap is my reading comprehension bad today...
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Wait until you are in your seventies.
I'm not that far off, pushing 60 in a couple of years
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Um, hate to spoil your day, but it’s a steep cliff between 60 and 70.
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Tried changing driver on one device. Saw the desired settings appear. Sent message to support requesting 'official' position on the built-in named driver. Awaiting response from @bcopeland.
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One further observation, the Generic driver will not allow the setting of a Thermostat Mode in Rule Machine. But, the built-in named Honeywell driver will allow it. Weird.
Also, seems like the T6's Home/Away mode is a proprietary setting and is not exposed to HE. Read a related post somewhere... Anyone know the answer?
I’m not sure but I think the virtual thermostat app will give you those options. Someone correct me if I’m wrong please
It will. I have done this before I stopped using my T6 Pro.
It isn't exposed via z-wave to any controller, not just Hubitat.
Found that the equivalent Thermostat Modes for the T6’s Away mode are exposed in the Generic driver. There’s just no mention of the word “Away”. The two energy saving modes are what Honeywell calls away mode. It’s in the installer manual.
Also, I believe anyone who says they can set a mode via RM. what I’m saying is that I cannot . When I attempt to set a mode on the following screen the mode briefly pops up on the UI but is not retained.
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I can confirm this, In RM 5, when AUTO is picked from the select thermostat dropdown it immediately disappears. Actually all of the modes disappear when clicked. As does fan setting.
Tagging @bcopeland (Running 2.3.0.124)
Does the generic driver work correctly in dashboards? That is the only reason I use the 'advanced' driver, in order to manually modify the driver to work in dashboards.
Works fine in the dashboards
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I just ordered a T6 - based partly on the availability of HE's built-in device-specific driver for it. Am I understanding correctly now that the generic thermostat driver works better? If that's the case why would there be a T6-specific one too?
@bcopeland probably can answer better than I, but I'm going to just
Assume it's a hold over. He's written all the thermostat stuff and he recommend using the Generic z-wave plus thermostat driver for the t6, and he's a known owner of the t6...I lean towards his recommendation
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@steve.hoge, I have no inside information but the holdover might have something to do with resources.
Anyway, as you can see, my experience has not been good with either driver. But, the one you use at this moment in time likely has more to do with your use case.
My case applies to a vacation home with two devices. When I press the Home/Away button at the front door, I want certain devices in the house to respond. In the case of the thermostat, the named built-in Honeywell driver works best for me at this moment in time as I cannot at all make a rule in RM using the Generic driver.
Interesting. I will probably stick with the generic thermostat driver then. Thanks
This 
Active/smart developer trumps pretty much anything else. 
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