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

{% linkable_title Configuration %}

You will need to obtain an API key from ecobee's developer site to use this component. To get the key, first you need to register your thermostat which should be done as part of the ecobee installation. Once you have done that perform the following steps.

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

Now login to the regular consumer portal, and in the hamburger menu there will be a new option Developer. Now we can create the Application to hook up to Home Assistant.

1. Select the Developer option.
2. Select Create New.
3. Give your app a name (it appears to need to be unique across all users, as I tried 'home-assistant' and it said it was already in use. Try -home-assistant) and a summary (neither of these are important as they are not used anywhere).
4. For Authorization method select ecobee PIN.
5. You don't need an Application Icon or Detailed Description.
6. Click Create.

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

The first time you run Home Assistant with this component 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 from the Home Assistant portal on the Ecobee card or from the configurator.ecobee entity in states in the portal.

• 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 component 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.

To set it up, add the following information to your configuration.yaml file:

# 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 component. Once registered it can be removed. If you revoke the key in the ecobee portal you will need to update this again and remove the ecobee.conf file in the .homeassistant configuration path. required: true type: string hold_temp: description: Whether or not to hold changes indefinitely (true) or until the next scheduled event. required: false default: false type: boolean {% endconfiguration %}

If for whatever reason you delete and re-create your ecobee app at ecobee.com such that your developer API key changes, you will need to delete your /conf/ecobee.conf file. You will also need to update the api_key: in the configuration.yaml or secrets.yaml file.

{% linkable_title Notifications %}

To get your Ecobee notifications working with Home Assistant, you must first have the main Ecobee component loaded and running. Once you have that configured, you can setup this component 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.

{% linkable_title Thermostat %}

{% linkable_title 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 operation 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 states that the thermostat aims to achieve. The ecobee thermostat provides three predefined climates: Home, Away, and Sleep. The user can define additional climates.

A hold is an override of the target temperature defined in the currently active climate. The temperature targeted in the hold mode may be explicitly set (temperature hold), 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 mode, the target temperature is permanently overridden by the target temperature defined for the away climate. The away mode is a simple way to emulate a vacation mode.

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

{% linkable_title Attributes %}

The following attributes are provided by the Ecobee Thermostat: name, temperature_unit, current_temperature, target_temperature, target_temperature_low, target_temperature_high, desired_fan_mode, fan, current_hold_mode, current_operation, operation_list, operation_mode, mode, fan_min_on_time, device_state_attributes, is_away_mode_on, vacation, climate_list, aux_heat. The attributes min_temp and max_temp are meaningless constant values.

{% linkable_title Attribute name %}

Returns the name of the Ecobee Thermostat.

Attribute type	Description
String	Name of the Ecobee Thermostat

{% linkable_title Attribute temperature_unit %}

Returns the unit of measurement used for temperature by the thermostat.

Attribute type	Description
String	Name of the temperature unit

{% linkable_title Attribute current_temperature %}

Returns the current temperature measured by the thermostat.

Attribute type	Description
Integer	Currently measured temperature

{% linkable_title Attribute target_temperature %}

Returns the target temperature of the thermostat, when the thermostat is not in auto operation mode.

Attribute type	Description
Integer	Target temperature

{% linkable_title Attribute target_temperature_low %}

Returns the desired heating temperature set in the thermostat when in auto operation mode.

Attribute type	Description
Integer	Target temperature

{% linkable_title Attribute target_temperature_high %}

Returns the desired cooling temperature set in the thermostat when in auto operation mode.

Attribute type	Description
Integer	Target temperature

{% linkable_title Attribute desired_fan_mode %}

Returns the desired fan mode of the current operation.

Attribute type	Description
String	'on', 'off'

{% linkable_title Attribute fan %}

Returns the current fan state.

Attribute type	Description
String	'on', 'off'

{% linkable_title Attribute current_hold_mode %}

Returns the current temperature hold, if any.

Attribute type	Description
String	'temp', 'vacation', 'home', 'away', etc., None

{% linkable_title Attribute current_operation %}

Returns the current operation of the thermostat.

Attribute type	Description
String	'auto', 'cool', 'heat', 'off'

{% linkable_title Attribute operation_list %}

Returns the list of available operation modes.

Attribute type	Description
List of String	Available operation modes

{% linkable_title Attribute operation_mode %}

Returns the current operation mode of the thermostat.

Attribute type	Description
String	Currently active operation mode

{% linkable_title Attribute mode %}

Returns the climate currently active on the thermostat. The mode is returned as the user-visible name (rather than the internally used name).

{% linkable_title Attribute fan_min_on_time %}

Returns the current fan minimum on time.

Attribute type	Description
Integer	Current fan minimum on time in minutes

{% linkable_title Attribute is_away_mode_on %}

Returns whether the thermostat is in away mode (see the corresponding service for more detail).

{% linkable_title Attribute actual humidity %}

Returns the humidity as measured by the thermostat.

Attribute type	Description
Integer	Current humidity

{% linkable_title Attribute vacation %}

Returns the currently active vacation or None.

Attribute type	Description
String	Name of currently active vacation

{% linkable_title Attribute climate_list %}

Returns the list of climates defined in the thermostat.

{% linkable_title Attribute aux_heat %}

Returns the current auxiliary heat state.

Attribute type	Description
String	'on', 'off'

{% linkable_title Services %}

The following services are provided by the Ecobee Thermostat: set_away_mode, set_hold_mode, set_temperature, set_operation_mode, fan_min_on_time, resume_program. The services set_aux_heat, set_humidity, set_fan_mode, and set_swing_mode offered by the Climate component are not implemented for this thermostat.

{% linkable_title Service set_away_mode %}

Turns the away mode on or off for the thermostat.

Service data attribute	Optional	Description
entity_id	yes	String or list of strings that point at entity_id's of climate devices to control. Else targets all.
away_mode	no	'on' or 'off'

{% linkable_title Service set_hold_mode %}

Puts the thermostat into the given hold mode. For 'home', 'away', 'sleep', and any other hold based on a reference climate, the target temperature is taken from the reference climate. For 'temp', the current temperature is taken as the target temperature. When None is provided as parameter, the hold_mode is turned off. It is not possible to set a vacation hold; such hold has to be defined on the thermostat directly. However, a vacation hold can be canceled.

Service data attribute	Optional	Description
entity_id	yes	String or list of strings that point at entity_id's of climate devices to control. Else targets all.
hold_mode	no	temp, home, away, sleep, None, smart1, smart2, etc.

NOTE: If you create custom hold modes (also known as "Comfort Settings") on your ecobee.com dashboard, their hold_modes are smart1, smart2, smart3, etc. The number for each custom mode should match the mode's icon on your ecobee.com dashboard. Also note that the mode numbers/icons in the ecobee mobile app may not match the numbers/icons from the ecobee.com web dashboard. The ones on the website are the ones you shoud use to determine the correct smartX hold_mode IDs.

{% linkable_title Service set_temperature %}

Puts the thermostat into a temporary hold at the given temperature.

Service data attribute	Optional	Description
entity_id	yes	String or list of strings that point at entity_id's of climate devices to control. Else targets all.
target_temp_low	no	Desired heating target temperature (when in auto mode)
target_temp_high	no	Desired cooling target temperature (when in auto mode)
temperature	no	Desired target temperature (when not in auto mode)

Only the target temperatures relevant for the current operation mode need to be provided.

{% linkable_title Service set_operation_mode %}

Sets the current operation mode of the thermostat.

Service data attribute	Optional	Description
entity_id	yes	String or list of strings that point at entity_id's of climate devices to control. Else targets all.
operation_mode	no	'auto', 'auxHeatOnly', 'cool', 'heat', 'off'

{% linkable_title Service fan_min_on_time %}

Sets the fan minimum on time.

Service data attribute	Optional	Description
entity_id	yes	String or list of strings that point at entity_id's of climate devices to control. Else targets all.
fan_min_on_time	no	Desired fan minimum on time

{% linkable_title Service 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. Else targets all.
resume_all	no	true or false