Climate - Ecobee - no longer has attributes target_temp_high and target_temp_low

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After upgrading to HA version 0.37.1 I don’t see attributes target_temp_high and target_temp_low for Ecobee3 climate components. Which was basically was giving the information of how much AC is set to and how much heater is set to.
I did not see any document regarding that those removed.
Anyone else noticed this?
Thanks,

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Both climate.target_temperature_high and climate.target_temperature_low are still supported in ecobee. However, these are meaningful as target temperatures only in auto mode, as how high the heat should go and how low the cooling should go when the AC switches between these modes. When we are not in auto mode, then only a single target temperature is functional, depending on the mode.

Returning always both target temperatures messed up the temperature hold setting from ecobee in that it incorrectly put two sliders on the card when there should only be one (when not in auto mode). That was very confusing for users. Also, under certain circumstances, the thermostat would return totally weired values (e.g., 200 degrees for the cool bound) which also messes with the history displays.

The implementation now is such that when the ecobee is in auto mode, both target_temperature_high and target_temperature_low return a value. If you are not in auto, these return no value, instead, target_temperature should be used, and vice versa.

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Thanks a lot for the clarification, I didn’t find such document any where else. Definitely I read the release notes but I didn’t get what this mean: “Climate - Ecobee: Made target temperature sensitive to auto mode”.
I have updated my UI to remove those two as I keep Ecobee in manual mode as if you know Texas weather, which can drop or go up 50 degree in a day.
Thanks one more time.

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Yes, agreed. There is no obvious place where such documentation can be found. In fact, I don’t think these modes are documented at all. The only thing I see in the documentation are the service calls. I found all this out from looking in the code.

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Same here, I learnt about those two temperature values from developer tools/states and used template sensors to extract those values.
Thanks

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A detailed documentation for the ecobee climate component has been added.

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Wow! That’s really details document. That will help a lot to anyone who is trying to use Ecobee.
Appreciate your efforts.
Thanks a lot.