Wondering if it’s just me, or has anyone else had problems connecting to the Honeywell North American server (from the app or web page, or from HA) today, 24 January.
For me the problem started around 0700 EST (1200 UTC) and was still happening at 2100 UTC, but was cleared up by 0000 (1900 EST.)
Trying to connect with the Honeywell app, I got errors indicating an inability to log on. Oddly, using the Honeywell HA integration I was able to see the thermostat settings, and change them in HA, but the changes did not apply to the thermostats.
As of now it all seems to be working normally. The timing for me was awful; I was on the road all day and really needed to change some settings. I just want to confirm it was the Honeywell server and not something on my end. Not sure how it could be, because I changed nothing which could either cause or resolve it.
Yeah that would suck to have home assistant and still have cloud issues. At least you are using software that will make it easy to reduce/eliminate cloud dependence.
Connections continued to be spotty overnight (0800 EST now.)
I really do like having backup controls for my thermostats. I use HA as primary, but if that fails I have the Honeywell cloud as a backup. And if that fails (as it did) the thermostats are normally on their own internal schedule, which is set to prevent any burst pipes.
In this case, the first two controls failed. But the local schedules held. Luckily, he outside temperatures never got low enough to worry about pipes freezing, so the worst that happened was I wasted about a gallon of fuel oil keeping the unoccupied house too warm, running on the default schedule. Frustrating, but not really a bad thing, in the long run.
Of course, with HA I could easily tap into the heating system zone controller. I already do that for monitoring. Just add a few relays and hook them up to the GPIO pins, and I’d have another option for when Honeywell failed but HA didn’t. I’ll have to think that through. Off-hand, I’d say I could easily turn ON any given zone, but if HA had the ability to turn them OFF, then I’d risk adding a single point of failure.