HomeKit Bridge thermostat, link sensors for current temperature and humidity

[dodjavola]

Hello everyone. I am currently on the quest to get rid of all online devices and make everything local through Home Assistant. I am also using HomeKit, but HA is main platform and then I just expose some items to the HomeKit through HomeKit Bridge (for the purpose of easy access by family members).

While I was able to do this for all items, I am running into some issues with Ecobee thermostat. While the pure thermostat exposure to HomeKit works fine and I can control the temperature, I cannot get linked sensors to show up above thermostat in the HomeKit. Please see picture bellow of how thermostat looks like when I connect directly to HomeKit. It shows both current temperature and humidity right above. However, when I connect thermostat to HA via HomeKit controller, then expose it to HomeKit via bridge, I only get thermostat control. The sensors do show up, but not above the thermostat, rather in separate section of the Home app where all other temperature sensors are being displayed.

I scoured web and HomeKit bridge documentation but I cannot figure out how to make this work. I did see that bridge supports linked humidity sensor, but only for humidifiers. Was anyone able to achieve this?

Thanks in advance!

[Swyft]

It’s disappointing to see there hasn’t been an answer to this yet. @dodjavola did you ever find a solution? I’m hoping to move to Ecobee from Nest, but I want to make sure integrating with Home Assistant doesn’t give a worse HomeKit experience than the native HomeKit integration directly from the device.

[Swyft]

I just noticed that my Nest export from HA to HK does actually have the temp and humidity shown above the temp control, so I guess this might be a non-issue for me.