Hi all,
I’m just getting up and running on HA.
The main reason I’m going to HA is because I live in an area of huge temperature swings AND huge fluctuations in electrical grid carbon intensity. I have a gas furnace and a heat pump.
I’ve written some logic that uses API calls to OpenWeather and ElectricityMaps to calculate the optimal heat source from an environmental perspective. I have an Ecobee connected to HA via Homekit, but have discovered that I don’t have access to aux heat control.
I have separately built a prototype thermostat with a bunch of solid state relays, but am an incompetent coder and worse at hardware. If my ecobee can’t be convinced to do what I want, then I’d rather buy a HA friendly thermostat that does what I want.
So the questions are:
- Is there a way to control aux heat with an ecobee since API access was terminated.
- Is there a better thermostat to use in place of my ecobee.
- How’d y’all get so smart? This stuff is hard.
Thanks all!