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ecobee	Instructions for how to integrate ecobee thermostats and sensors within Home Assistant.	Sensor Binary Sensor Notifications Climate Weather	true	0.9	Cloud Poll	true	@marthoc	ecobee

The ecobee integration lets you control and view sensor data from ecobee thermostats.

Preliminary Step

You will need to obtain an API key from ecobee's developer site to use this integration. To get the key, your thermostat must be registered on ecobee's website (which you likely would have already done while installing your thermostat). Once you have done that, perform the following steps.

1. Click on the Become a developer link on the developer site.
2. Log in with your ecobee credentials.
3. Accept the SDK agreement.
4. Fill in the fields.
5. Click save.

Log in to the regular consumer portal, and click the overflow menu button in the upper right. You will see a new option named Developer. Now we can create the Application to hook up to Home Assistant.

1. Select the Developer option from the hamburger menu.
2. Select Create New.
3. Give your App a name (it must be unique across all ecobee users; try your-name-or-alias-home-assistant) and a summary (which need not be unique). Neither of these are important as they are not used anywhere in Home Assistant.
4. For authorization method select ecobee PIN.
5. You don't need an Application Icon or Detailed Description.
6. Click Create.

Under the Name and Summary Section, you will now have an API key. Copy this key and use it in your configuration section below. Click the X to close the Developer section.

Configuring the Integration

To configure the ecobee integration in Home Assistant, you can either use the Configuration > Integrations menu, or add an entry to configuration.yaml.

Setup via the Integrations menu

1. In the Configuration > Integrations menu, click + and then select ecobee from the pop-up menu.
2. In the pop-up box, enter the API key you obtained from ecobee.com.
3. In the next pop-up box, you will be presented with a unique four-character PIN code which you will need to authorize in the ecobee consumer portal. You can do this by logging in, selecting My Apps from the hamburger menu, clicking Add Application on the left, entering the PIN code from Home Assistant, and clicking Validate and then Add Application in the bottom right.
4. After authorizing the App on ecobee.com, return to Home Assistant and hit Submit. If the authorization was successful, a configuration entry will be created and your thermostats and sensors will be available in Home Assistant.

Setup via configuration.yaml

If you prefer to initially set up this integration in configuration.yaml, you may do so by adding your API key (and optional parameters) as follows (however, you must still complete authorization via the Integrations menu):

# Example configuration.yaml entry
ecobee:
  api_key: YOUR_API_KEY

{% configuration %} api_key: description: Your ecobee API key. This is only needed for the initial setup of the integration. Once registered it can be removed. If you revoke the key in the ecobee portal, you will need to remove the existing ecobee configuration in the Integrations menu, update this, and then configure the integration again. required: false type: string {% endconfiguration %}

Restart Home Assistant for the changes to take effect. In the Configuration > Integrations menu, hit Configure next to the discovered ecobee entry, and continue to authorize the App per the Integration menu instructions above.

The first time you (re)run Home Assistant with this integration it will give you a PIN code that you need to authorize in the ecobee consumer portal. You can do this by clicking Add Application in the My Apps section in the sidebar.

The PIN can be found in the Home Assistant portal on the ecobee card or from the configurator.ecobee entity in the States developer tool.

• If you do not have an ecobee card, you may be using groups with default_view that don't show the card. To get around this, you can temporarily comment out the default_view section or add the configurator.ecobee integration to your default_view and restart Home Assistant.

Once you enter the PIN on the ecobee site, wait approximately 5 minutes, and then click on the I have authorized the app link at the bottom of the ecobee pop-up window. If everything worked correctly, you should now be able to restart Home Assistant again to see the full ecobee card with all of the sensors populated or see the list of sensors in the developer tools. Now you can re-enable your default_view (if you had to disable it) and add the ecobee sensors to a group and/or view.

Notifications

To get your ecobee notifications working with Home Assistant, you must first have the main ecobee integration loaded and running. Once you have that configured, you can set up this integration to send messages to your ecobee device.

To use this notification platform in your installation, add the following to your configuration.yaml file:

# Example configuration.yaml entry
notify:
  - name: NOTIFIER_NAME
    platform: ecobee

{% configuration %} name: description: Setting the optional parameter name allows multiple notifiers to be created. The notifier will bind to the service notify.NOTIFIER_NAME. required: false default: "notify" type: string {% endconfiguration %}

To use notifications, please see the getting started with automation page.

Thermostat

Concepts

The ecobee thermostat supports the following key concepts.

The target temperature is the temperature that the device attempts to achieve. The target temperature is either determined by the currently active climate or it may be overridden by a hold. When the thermostat is not in auto mode, there is a single target temperature. When the thermostat is in auto HVAC mode, there is a pair of target temperatures: the lower target temperature determines the lowest desired temperature, while the higher target temperature determines the highest desired temperature (the thermostat will switch between heating and cooling to keep the temperature within these limits).

A climate is a predefined or user-defined set of presets that the thermostat aims to achieve. The ecobee thermostat provides three predefined climates: Home, Away, and Sleep. Ecobee refers to these as comfort settings. The user can define additional climates.

A preset is an override of the target temperature defined in the currently active climate. The temperature targeted in the preset mode may be explicitly set (temperature preset), it may be derived from a reference climate (home, away, sleep, etc.), or it may be derived from a vacation defined by the thermostat. All holds are temporary. Temperature and climate holds expire when the thermostat transitions to the next climate defined in its program. A vacation hold starts at the beginning of the defined vacation period and expires when the vacation period ends.

When in away preset, the target temperature is permanently overridden by the target temperature defined for the away climate. The away preset is a simple way to emulate a vacation mode.

The HVAC mode of the device is the currently active operational modes that the ecobee thermostat provides: heat, auxHeatOnly, cool, auto, and off.

Attributes

The ecobee climate entity has some extra attributes to represent the state of the thermostat.

Name	Description
fan	If the fan is currently on or off: on / off.
climate_mode	This is the climate mode that is active, or would be active if no override is active.
equipment_running	This is a comma-separated list of equipment that is currently running.
fan_min_on_time	The minimum amount of time (in minutes) that the fan will run per hour. This is determined by the minimum fan runtime setting which can be changed in the ecobee app or on the thermostat itself.

Services

Besides the standard services provided by the Home Assistant Climate integration, the following extra services are provided by the ecobee integration:

• ecobee.create_vacation
• ecobee.delete_vacation
• ecobee.resume_program
• ecobee.set_fan_min_on_time

Service ecobee.create_vacation

Creates a vacation on the selected ecobee thermostat.

Service data attribute	Optional	Description
entity_id	no	ecobee thermostat on which to create the vacation
vacation_name	no	Name of the vacation to create. Must be unique on the thermostat
cool_temp	no	Cooling temperature during the vacation
heat_temp	no	Heating temperature during the vacation
start_date	yes	Date the vacation starts in YYYY-MM-DD format
start_time	yes	Time the vacation starts in the local time zone. Must be in 24-hour format (HH:MM:SS)
end_date	yes	Date the vacation ends in YYYY-MM-DD format (14 days from now if not provided)
end_time	yes	Time the vacation ends in the local time zone. Must be in 24-hour format (HH:MM:SS)
fan_mode	yes	Fan mode of the thermostat during the vacation (auto or on) (auto if not provided)
fan_min_on_time	yes	Minimum number of minutes to run the fan each hour (0 to 60) during the vacation (0 if not provided)

Service ecobee.delete_vacation

Delete a vacation on the selected ecobee thermostat.

Service data attribute	Optional	Description
entity_id	no	ecobee thermostat on which to delete the vacation
vacation_name	no	Name of the vacation to delete

Service ecobee.resume_program

Resumes the currently active schedule.

Service data attribute	Optional	Description
entity_id	yes	String or list of strings that point at entity_id's of climate devices to control. Use entity_id: all to target all.
resume_all	no	true or false

Service ecobee.set_fan_min_on_time

Sets the minimum amount of time that the fan will run per hour.

Service data attribute	Optional	Description
entity_id	yes	String or list of strings that point at entity_id's of climate devices to control. Use entity_id: all to target all.
fan_min_on_time	no	integer (e.g., 5)