Just loaded this in via Package Manager (brilliant). Everything looks great across four Ecobee 3s with extra sensors. I'd like to access the motion detection feature of the sensors as a dashboard button, but building a button of device "EcobeeSensor: SensorName" + template "Motion" results in an "unknown" state on the button.
What can I do with the EcobeeSensor devices on Dashboard?
I just double-checked my Hubitat installation, and the motion template indeed shows active/inactive for EcobeeSensor devices, as you are expecting. You probably just need to wait for the sensors to be updated. Check the device page for the sensor you are trying to use, and look at what the value for the motion attribute is.
By default, the Ecobee cloud is polled only every 3 minutes, and it can take a couple of cycles for all the attributes to be updated. I always suggest changing the default to 1 minute cycles, BTW - that's as close to "real time" as you can get with Ecobee...
Just a quick follow-up: yes, the sensors register "unknown" state if they haven't been triggered at least once after being registered by Ecobee Suite. Once the sensor has a state change, it registers a "occupied/active" state or a "inactive" state. I just hadn't triggered any of them before I started building the dashboard. Also, they show both the measured temp and the active state on the same button, nice!
I am not using any of the room sensors. Is it possible to access the motion sensor that it built into the thermostat? I have the thermostat in my mud room, and it would be nice when it detects motion to turn on my lights in that room.
Unfortunately, the Ecobee sensors are really “occupancy” and not “motion” sensors - they take up to 15 minutes to decide that the motion they see means “occupied.” So they won’t work for your use case.
Sorry, no battery reporting, but you will see in Live Logging that a sensor has become disconnected. The problem is, they can disconnect temporarily and reconnect on their own, or they can disconnect when the battery dies.
Personally, I rely on the Email Alerts that Ecobee sends me whenever a Sensor's battery is low...
My bad - it's an initialization error that has probably cleared itself up already.
If not, try this (development) version - I'll post it generally a bit later, as I have a couple other Hotfixes to post: Ecobee Suite Open Contacts Hotfix
Ecobee Suite Updates posted on 22 May 2020 at 1:10pm EDT
A few minor fixes and enhancements:
Ecobee Suite Thermostat, version 1.8.16
Handles bug in Hubitat Dashboard's thermostat template that sends " on" instead of "on" when trying to set the thermostatFanMode
Ecobee Suite Manager, version 1.8.43
Optimize zipCode, timeZone, sunRise/sunSet
Since Ecobee no longer keeps track of the Zip Code for each thermostat, I had to deprecate the code that was allowing for different thermostats to be in different zip codes. Now prefers geographic coordinates for device-specific matters
If a thermostats' location has not been set, then there will be no weather data; fixed code to ignore weather in this case instead of failing. Also logs an error noting that the location needs to be set.
Ecobee Suite Open Contacts, version 1.8.23
Fixed initialization error with new label display
Ecobee Suite Smart Switches, version 1.8.13
Changed so that deactivations only occur outside the 'disabled' time window - by default, switches will be left in the state they were. If desired, you can force the switch state to be "deactivated" when the disabled time window starts
I am having an issue with using Open Contacts and Smart Mode together. Maybe I am not understanding how both of these function but it seems that if I use open contacts and close all of the open contacts that the smart mode will never take back over and turn the furnace back on to cooling even though the temperature threshold has been met. I am attaching a couple of shots of my logs when this occurs:
Open Contacts Log
open the Open Contacts Helper, turn on Pause and then click Done. This will delete all of its reservations.
Make sure ALL of the Contacts are closed,
Make sure that your HVAC is in the normal mode you want
open the Open Contacts Helper, turn off Pause, and click Done.
The two should work fine together - I have 2 such setups, one for the upstairs zone and another for the downstairs zone. The trick is getting everything to the proper state when you open and save the Open Contacts Helper...
I think my problem with this was that I had smart mode set to turn the furnace off when it was between the high and low temperatures. I set it to auto and it seems to be working now. I will also keep the steps above in mind in case something gets out of sync in the future. Thank you for the information!
I suggest you report them to Ecobee - last person who did reported that Ecobee acknowledged their problem. Not sure if they fixed it, or if you have to turn off 2FA to get authorized...
