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Home Assistant
:house_with_garden: Open source home automation that puts local control and privacy first.
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Ecobee-Suite
Ecobee Suite is for integrating Ecobee thermostats & sensors with the Hubitat home automation platform
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Example time! I have a sunroom that is heated with a free-standing gas stove/fireplace. With the Universal Ecobee Suite, I was able to use the temp reading of a door sensor to turn the stove off/on based on room temperature as compared to the target temperature set on the ecobee. What I could never get to tie in with ST was the several wall mounted convection heaters that "help" some rooms at the periphery of the house. They are plugged into zigbee smart outlets and I wanted them to only be powered if the ecobee mode was set to 'heat'. I could not figure out how to get this working with ST. It took me about 15 minutes to get it done in HE. And then when I installed a heated floor in my basement office I was also able to tie thermostat there into the same automation so its target temp follows the rest of the house as well. I also consider HE's "interface impairment" a personal non issue because I'm the only one that has to deal with it. I like my automation as unobtrusive as possible, the rest of my fam wants physical butons/switches/voice control. They don't want touch screens everywhere with status readouts and such.