I use presence sensors managed in HA to set my Ecobee mode (climate.set_preset_mode) to home, away, etc. when presence changes. I can’t find a way to disable Ecobee’s schedule completely: right now, every day at 9am it gets set to “Home” as configured in the Ecobee UI, which overrides the latest mode set by HA. There doesn’t seem to be a way to delete that last daily 9am in the Ecobee schedule UI. Any tips? At this point I wish I had a non “smart” wifi thermostat so I could manage everything in HA…
I have the same-ish issue with my Tuya radiator valves.
Some of them have accidentally been programmed to a schedule.
Since it’s too much work to fix it on the devices sitting on the floor with a horrible UI I just created an automation to detect the scheduled events.
In my case it sets the mode to schedule. Since yours go to home mode then it’s trickier.
But if the time is constant then we can use them both to get around the issue.
So set up at an automation to trigger on preset mode “home” and as condition between 8:59 and 9:01.
This should work, and will only be a conflict if you actually arrive home during that small time frame.
Or can you change the schedule in Ecobee UI to set it to some other mode you’re not using? That way it’s easier to distinguish.