Ecobee "local" - HA not seeing thermostat (Solved)

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I was looking at this thread - Ecobee Dumped Developer Accounts

I didn’t want to add to it as it was marked as solved. I had a valid API key and it stopped working at some point. I have an ecobee3 and it indeed has homekit in the settings menus so I should be good…

Now I am not in the Apple ecosystem, my daughter has an iPhone but that is all, no hubs, iPads, whatever. I am looking at the HA Ecobee documentation and it says to use homekit, looks super easy, says my device should be waiting to setup. Not the case.

I am seeing conflicting information and it seems to be implied that anytime homekit is mentioned, the user knows they need a hub or that a hub is involved? I don’t get that impression reading the above thread.

I will mention that my HA install is on the same network as the thermostat and there are no firewalls or vlans going on. I purchased the Ecobee because it had API access and HA integration, and then they took it away. I relied heavily on the data it provided and 6 months without it I’m getting really bothered.

My HA install and Ecobee is up to date, there should be nothing in the way unless I actually need a hub to make it work. Should I start with wireshark and see if my unit is broadcasting mDNS or is the documentation lacking/making assumptions? I’d love to get this data back again.

Thanks!

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I finally figured this out. If anyone else happens to be stuck and confused here is what I did. On the thermostat itself I went to the settings and pulled up the homekit pairing code, leave this up. I then had to do a full restart of HA, then head over to integrations add homekit device and there it was. I have tried this many times before but without restarting HA. I put in the code displayed on the thermostat (no dashes) and hit ok. Instantly the thermostat went back to standby and it was added. I had to confirm zones for the thermostat and sensors.