Can anyone provide some guidance for downgrading HA? The Honeywell integration has been broken for months. I’d just like to go back to a version that worked. I’d sacrifice new features for stability.
Forgot to mention, using Hass.io
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I restored the snapshot (now called backup) of version 7.4 that I’d taken before I did the update to 8.0. Of course, that doesn’t help you if you don’t have a snapshot. I haven’t done a back-level on HA yet so I can’t help you there.
There is a way to back-level just the Honeywell integration. I haven’t tried that yet, but it’s explained a bit here:
It’s not exactly a step-by-step instruction, but at this point it’s the best I’ve found.
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This integration always seems to have issue’s setting temps, updating all kinds of little things forever it seems like. I have a Z-Wave thermostat that works perfectly every time so I think it’s time for me personally to dump this integration and change the thermostat to a Z-Wave and be done with it.
This is a bad news / good news story.
The bad news is it’s still broken, and this isn’t even listed as a breaking change, so anyone updating has no way of knowing they’re going to have to back out.
The good news is there are some great developers working on the fix over on GitHub. Each time they dig deeper into one of the (several) problems the last update introduced, they find more things which can be done better. Apparently the integration was built on top of someone else’s generic code for accessing the Honeywell cloud API, and it hasn’t been updated in a long time. It sounds to me (just listening in on GitHub) that they’ve adopted that code and are busy making it much more reliable.
My take is that it’ll be worth the wait. I hate being this far behind on HA releases. Apparently there is a way to back-level just the Honeywell integration, but the heating season is about to start here and I’ve got a few other irons in the fire right now, so I’d rather not over-extend myself.
I have a Heat Pump and Oil Fired Boiler and have used HA to manage the systems successfully (when the Honeywell worked) but not without issues and work arounds with the Honeywell integration. Now that it is apparently blown up pretty good it’s great that they are doing a real fix not a patch job to it but I can’t wait. I purchased a Venstar T7900 which runs a local API, no cloud dependency, but also has a cloud management platform, best of both worlds. From what I can see the Venstar users really like the product and there is only one ticket open in git for an issue
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Wow, that Venstar looks like a nice stat, especially if it supports a local API.
Of course, it costs a lot more than the Honeywell. Everything’s a trade-off.
As for the integration, the old one works fine for me. I took the lazy route and simply restored back to HA version 7.4, the last version before it “blew up.” I understand it’s also possible to back-level just the Honeywell integration. To me either option is easier and cheaper than abandoning the Honeywells I already own and shelling out for a Venstar, but I certainly understand the value in moving to a local API.
I had the cash and have a use for the thermostat I’m replacing where I’ll have remote control through the App but no need of automation. I think the Venstar is the only company to work both locally through the API and their cloud app. If I had known that before I would have never gone with the Honeywell. I can understand your staying the course though as I too am sure they will get it ironed out it just takes a little time, plus thermostats are expensive…