My nest Homebridge plugin is flaky and there’s no way to add it to h.e. Thinking about switching to ecobee, thoughts?
Why don't you get a z-wave or zigbee thermostat that is directly controlled by Hubitat? I switched about six months ago from an ecobee3 to a Honeywell T6 pro z-wave+ thermostat that I got on eBay for about $80. I couldn't be happier - no more cloud dependence on controlling my thermostat.
There's both a Hubitat built-in driver for this as well as an advanced driver written by @bcopeland.
And there plenty of other z-wave and zigbee thermostats that are supported by Hubitat.
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The reason I’m disabled and live with my parents (airforce accident) and they don’t want anything “permanent” that’s not a big company. They don’t trust h.e
But if you say you want to get a "Honeywell T6 pro" that's got to be a "legit" company in your parents eyes right? Nice that it also happens to integrate with the Hubitat but who cares about that right? 
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@aaiyar will have to respond to that .. I am still on the Nest myself - I do have a centralite pearl for our master bathroom.
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No - that's a wifi unit. It is this one: https://www.honeywellhome.com/T6-Pro-Z-wave
The model number is "TH6320ZW2003".
Since you've mentioned you use eBay, here's an eBay link:
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I would agree with @erktrek. Honeywell is definitely bigger and more stable than ecobee.
I switched from Nest to Ecobee late last year after one of my two Nest thermostats died. My power company offered a really good discount around Black Friday on the Ecobee 3 Lite thermostats. I bought two of them for significantly less than one new Nest.
So far, they have both been reliable and I have not noticed any cloud outages. However, I really do not try to control these thermostats via Hubitat. So if there were cloud outages, I might not even notice.
They do a better job at temperature control versus the Nests. The house is much more comfortable. I feel the Nests tried a little too hard to save a few extra pennies. We have not noticed any real difference in our power bills.
They also offer native Apple HomeKit integration, if that’s applicable to you.
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I'm new to Hubitat, less than a week. but I've had an ecobee for four years. I have not yet integrated it into the Hubitat world.
What made me decide on ecobee is this: Nest and Honeywell claim to be able to learn your schedule and adjust accordingly. I recently retired so I have no schedule.
Instead, my ecobee has remote motion sensor/thermometer in four rooms. If we leave for the day it adjusts the heat/AC and readjusts as soon as it senses our motion.
If we lose internet it keeps working just fine.
So I will heartily recommend it to you.
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ecobee just forced out a "climate change" initiative onto their thermostat owners named "eco+"...I will be leaving them now because am not interested in narratives being forced on loyal customers. I literally was checking my home's temperature remotely when the ecobee3 app opened into this eco+ BS intro which wouldn't let me access my ecobee3 thermostat without installing the new eco+ software. I do believe there is an opt-out option after you install the eco+ software but no thanks. Call me crazy but I just want a secure, programmable and remotely controlled thermostat, that also has room sensors, without being lectured to about energy consumption via political narratives.
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I started with EcoBee 3. It came with my new HVAC system. Except for the server outages early on, I have no complaints. I have received great support when needed and experienced flawless automation with HE.
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You can get all this without using a cloud connected thermostat. Use a zigbee or z-wave thermostat directly paired to Hubitat and use Rule Machine (or any other automation platform) to use sensor averages to control the thermostat. I posted a lengthy response, with data, to your other post on the Honeywell T9 WiFi thermostat..
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Yep just read it, very helpful, thanks Aaiyar
Agree with Aaiyar 100%. I have a Gocontrol plain jane Z Wave thermostat and have had zero issues. All done without the cloud. In fact , I just received an Ecobee 3 lite thermostat free from my gas company but have decided not to install it and continue to use my Gocontrol. It works flawlessly with @bcopeland Gocontrol driver.
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If my ecobee goes I will be just getting a Zwave our Zigbee thermostat. Ecobee and Nest are not worth the headaches and $$$ these days. @storageanarchy’s ecobee app is the only reason I still have an ecobee.
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Eco+ can be turned off.
Do you have a link to your article? I'd like to read it. Thanks!
Not sure its an article, but my response to @adam7 is in this thread:
I will maintain that if you have simple 1H/1C systems, then it makes sense to get a Hubitat-controlled z-wave/zigbee thermostat. Multi-stage systems are definitely better with an ecobee. And variable speed systems (with the exception of Bosch and Daikin) will need proprietary communicating thermostats.
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