Use the Set Thermostat Program button, just type in the name of your alternative schedule.
Note that the list of Schedules/Programs that Ecobee Suite knows for the thermostat is in the state variable programsList, as in:
I began using this a couple of months ago and love how it works. But I had read that even though the app was causing my hub to show severe load it shouldn't cause any issues. After a reboot the hub returns to severe state in about 3 days. The notification section indicates that a potential for radio shut down is possible. I am experiencing issues with my Zigbee network being unstable and devices not responding.
I am wondering if you can help me figure out why it's causing the severe issues so I can also eliminate this as a potential cause of my Zigbee device issues.
Any help would be appreciated!
What do you have your polling value set to? If it is not set to 1 min set it to that. How many child apps do you have?
it is set to 1 minute and I have 1 thermostat and 3 sensors and 3 mode settings.
OK that isn't much.
I have a Ecobee 4 with 3 sensors and probably 7 mode settings.
My question about child apps though is about the helper apps that you setup as part of Ecobee Suites. See my list below.
There is no doubt that Ecobee uses resources, but I wouldn't expect it to kill the hub.
I would also be curious to know what apps are attached to the thermostat and the sensors. You can look at the bottom of the device page and it would look something like this.
I see the "built in" app supports only ecobee v3 and later.
I was an early adopter and have one of the first generation ecobee thermostats. Is there any hope I can make it work?
Thanks!
It should work…go ahead and try it!
I haven't really had time to do mutch of anything since this update, we had another major storm and our electricity was out for over 6 hours over night while sleeping. The temps here are above 98 every day for over a week and humidity has ranged from 101 to 110. My hub has become so sluggish that just logging in from the phone, which is really the only way I use it, that MANY of my automations take up to 1 min or more to fire or don't at all. All of my Zwave devices have never not fired, just delayed. My Zigbee devices are barely even functioning. I have decided to remove the suite for the time being as it is well over 80° in my house and so I'm going back to just a basic schedule on the thermostat for now until I can find time to mess around with things. I started a new job and my primary focus is work and getting the basic automations working and reasonable Temps in my home.
Thank you to those who participated in this conversation and hopefully I'll be able to come back to the suite at some point.
Totally understandable - I would back off as well were I in your situation.
That said - I suspect you may find your problem is actually something else…removing my Ecobee Suite may reveal another possible cause.
Or not…
We shall and I'm trying to find time to dive into and learn the mesh behind my Zigbee devices, just VERY limited time right now. And it's so damn hot I don't have the energy at the moment. Thanks again to everyone!
Hi, does this suite offer and local control of ecobee? I read on github some old info and it looked like it was wholly reliant on cloud connectivity. I know ecobee has a local api that HomeKit uses, for example, so was on the hunt for something that takes advantage of it.
Trying to get my Ecobee EMS thermostat integrated using this. I have the account type set as "Commercial" and the path as "/" (not sure how to determine what that path should be) but I'm unable to select my thermostat (nothing appears in the dropdown). Is there anything I can do to get this working? Any help would be greatly appreciated! Thanks.
It still requires control through cloud. Ecobee doesn’t offer local control as far as I know.
True currently EcoBee is cloud only. The only local control they offer is for Apple's Home Kit.
Using the HomeKit controller on Home Assistant, you can get local control of Ecobee devices. (I do so without even without any other Apple device). You can them get the devices into Hubitat using HADB.
Good to know. I do t currently use HA but have been thinking if standing up one on my NAS in docker for stuff like this.
I am trying to set-up a rule that notifies me when the boiler is offline (out of water). Ecobee doesn't seem to have a notification when the boiler is offline. Equipment status doesn't seem to get updated frequently. I have polling at 3 minutes.
This is what I show for equipment updated - it's 9:26 now.
I tried this but it keeps going to idle even through I had put in offline.
I am not sure what I need to get this to work.
Thanks
I am fairly certain that Ecobee only reports offline when it loses the connection between the thermostat and the cloud servers for whatever reason (e.g., power outage, network outage, etc.). I don't think there is anything that reports that the HVAC itself has shut down, unless the thermostat is powered by the HVAC system. In the above case, does the thermostat have any display, or is the screen black?
Also, you will need to run poll cycles every minute if you are going to test if it stays off for a minute (the value can only change during a poll cycle). I suggest 1 minute cycles, and then you test if it stays offline for 2 or 3 minutes...
I tried this rule with 1 minute polling. I tested by turning up the heat and shutting off the boiler. The equipment status didn't change to idle after 20 minutes. EquipUpdated doesn't seem to update with polling which would update the rule.
Right now, I have C on a transformer because we have only 2 wires (W1 and RH) going to the boiler. I might be able to come up with a better solution once we rewire to add the C wire. At least I hope I can.
yeah - with a dedicated transformer, the thermostat will never be able to report "offline" due to power loss. It doesn't know that the boiler is off, because it (the thermostat) still has power.
You might consider using a relay connected to the boiler power (24VAC probably), and the other side connected to (for example) the contact sensor leads on an Ecolink z-wave contact sensor (like this one), and then building a Rule that uses this as it's trigger event...
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