Help automation based on "climate" "operation" (attribute)

[rpitera (Robert Pitera)]

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Slow state updates from EcoBee

Does everyone else notice very slow updates from Ecobee via climate. I have a sensor created which is based off the “fan on” attribute. The problem is this is up to 5 minutes late updating - both on fan start and stop. You physically hear and feel the fan running but yet the climate doesn’t detect it for several minutes, and the same on shut down. I realize Climate is reading the data from Ecobee over the internet via their cloud API. The question is why is it so slow? This makes it tough …