Just decided to pop in and see if there's anything going on. I have a rule machine rule that turns the heat on in my garage if it gets below a certain temp. Just noticed it was failing and thought it was a issue with the rule.
I tried logging into the app and website, and got the "too many attempts" message. Guess I'm running into what everyone else is here with the API.
I only have one thermostat and the polling is set to 10 minutes. Guess I need to bump that up, but what's a safe value that is still realistically usable?
As mentioned above, Honeywell has been allowing fewer API requests than in the past. I have the polling interval set to 60 minutes on each thermostat. However my use case is that I only care that the automations run accurately and I do not otherwise care that information in a dashboard is current. Even at this interval I still get the occasional failure, but overall it has been reliable. I also replaced some thermostats (I have 7 zones) with Ecobee thermostats.
So it depends on how quickly you need the automation to respond to changing temperature. I recommend that you increase it to the maximum you can tolerate for your application to get the best reliability.
That's what mine is set to as well. I looked at the Logs and didn't see any retries in the past 6 hours. I had a single retry at 2:33am overnight, Everything from 2:43am through to 9:03am have worked, first try.
I have 1 device and it was set to 30 minutes without issue. Just turned it down to 15 and hopefully that is still good.
I must say, if I had good alternative (my Thermostat has a remote mobile Thermostat we keep in the bedroom) I'd like to move away from this. No reflection on @csteele as he has done a great job with this its just that some integrations are not as clean as you would like and this falls into that camp for me.
I've long thought I should get something else too because Honeywell is certainly implying they would like to abandon this API. However, 1) mine is actually working well, plus it doesn't look bad on the wall. 2) I have yet to find something more feature rich.
So if you have an impressive alternative, I'd like to look at them.
Not sure how well it's going to work but I just ordered a zwave radio thermostat ct-32 for 20 bucks shipped on eBay. My use case I'm only controling heat in my garage.
For the house I've been pretty happy with my ecobee and the community integration.
unfort. i cannot find anything with same features to replace it.
i have multiple indoor sensor to average readings
1 have outdoor sensor
1 have in duct sensors that can report issues
and i have whole house steam humidifier it can control..
can anyone recommend a replacemnt with all my features?
al works well locally .. it just the damn stupid api.. even there built in app seems to lag behind reality so it is not just the polling from hubitat.. currently dont really control with hubitat and my 2 therms are set to refresh every 15 minutes and i dont get too many timeouts that way.
Ecobee with the remote sensors should work. It controls my humidifier, sensors in various rooms to average. You can setup your comfort schedules to average the sensors your want Ie, at night only worry about the sensor in the bedroom. During the day average them all. The integration works well, and knock on wood I haven't had any API issues in the few years I've run it.
The only real gotcha are the outdoor sensor and one in your ductwork. But probably easy enough to use other hubitat sensors for that. I have a ambient weather station that hubitat polls. Could probably put a cheap zigbee sensor in your duct somewhere accessible.
The desktop website is so slow for me, and barely renders on certain pages.
I usually get one overnight as well.
I have the same or a similar issue. There is no other thermostat that has the features the Honeywell Prestige IAQ has.
Duct sensors
Built-in ventilation scheduling and vent damper control
Remote sensors (indoor and outdoor)
Humidification and dehumification control
Remote mount equipment module (no clicky thermostats)!
Performance logs
4 stages heat plus 2 cool
Upstage timers for heat pump
Remote buttons for ventilation
For me, the critical features that are impossible to find elsewhere are the number of stages, and the ability to hold off staging and having upstage timers for heat pump operation. The remote equipment module greatly simplifies wiring, and allows only 2 wires to the thermostat display. Beyond that, no other thermostat has the settings and control options of the Prestige IAQ.
Even if the Honeywell IAQ API gets shut down, I am sticking with this thermostat until I can find something comparable and especially something with local control. I have been looking for years, and there is not and has not been anything like it in the market.
Anyone else seeing every connection request from Hubitat to Honeywell failing?
The credentials are good as they are working in the Honeywell apps as well as Google home. I tried extending refresh from 15 to 60 with no change. It looks like it's been going this for a couple of days.
Hae you tried the Honeywell App? Many have mentioned that they get a deny directly from Honeywell even using their own app. IF Honeywell isn't allowing itself, this bunch of code isn't going to do better
