I have an Ecobee 3 Lite thermostat that is currently integrated with HA using the Homekit Controller integration. I noticed the HA Ecobee Integration has some additional attributes (fan, equipment_running) that would be useful for some of my automations. Is there a possibility to have these attributes exposed in the Homekit Controller integration? My goal is to keep local control of the thermostat without having to use the Ecobee cloud integration.
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I realize this is old but fwiw run them side by side so you retain local control for majority functions but can get extra data into HA.
Thanks for the reply. The issue I have with this is that the Ecobee cloud response time is not the same as running local. I used to have Honeywell thermostats, but changed to Ecobee because the Honeywell integration could take up to 5 minutes to respond. The attribute that I’m looking for is whether or not the HVAC fan is running. I can see in the “download diagnostics” that the fan status is being returned in Homekit, however, this information is not being surfaced as an attribute in HA. Thanks again.
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