Need help. I am new to this and I am trying to control my ecobee thermostat. I have home assisyant on my mac but I don’t know what else to do to start controlling it. I wish there was like a video for people who aren’t as savvy on codes, the ones I have seen are very dificult to follow. where do I program all the codes? I went as far as opening Terminal and entering home assistant but then I am stuck. Please help me. Thanks.
Thanks for the response. I got as far as configuring home assistant. Where do I configure it, is it on Terminal on my mac?
pls check this youtube guy
this are fanstatic tutorials and saved me a lot of time.
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Thanks. The videos will help but I just need help in knowing what gadgets I will need to start with.
I hear about the Raspberry Pie. do I have to get some other equipment with my mac?
How do I locate the configuration.yaml file. In other words on what do I work on, my mac or I do I have to get a Raspberry.
I dont know whats the problem.
If u installed HA on a Mac the configuratiom is in ~/.homeassistant
You can added this file with any Text Editor. I prefere TextMate on MacOS
Thanks, I figured it out. I am kind a new to this but I am getting the hang of it.
Hey, I have this in my log :16-12-12 10:33:40 ERROR (MainThread) [homeassistant.loader] Unable to find component data_template.
I don’t know how to fix it.
Hi Steve! I’m a fellow newbie also. I just recently downloaded and installed. I am also trying to get a ecobee thermostat connected. And I am very lost also! You are NOT alone! 
I’m struggling with similar “getting started” type issues but with different errors. I watched the BRUH Automation for the installation (HUGE help!) and have read thru the Getting Started pages many times. But I am at a loss for how to get things going.
You mentioned you found the configuration.yaml file. Did you get the ecobee installed and configured? This is where I am stuck!
For me, this part is OK.
ecobee:
api_key: asdfghjklqwertyuiopzxcvbnm
But what happens next?!?
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Bump!
Noone? seriously the only part clear from the quide from ecobee - Home Assistant is how to get the token from ecobee. Ok. I got the toke. I even changed the configuration.yaml and add the api_key. What happens next? This platform it looks to have a huge potential but … I know for the guys familiar with it looks ridiculous to ask this but I just find out about home-assist few days ago, I god a raspberrypi 3 B+ followed the guide and created the micro sd card but I am stuck now to add support for ecobee (the main reason to get home-assist in the first place was to be able to use the individual sensors of ecobee to turn on/off different devices connected using wemo switches) Please HELP!
I am a novice here too. Here is some info that might be helpful and might even be mostly correct.
After a struggle you should be able to get your configuration.yaml file correct to the point where your ecobee thermostat and it’s sensors show up. There is enough documentation etc for this. If you cannot get this far then in in my opinion HA as a doityourself project is not in the cards for you.
The goal you mention of using ecobee sensors as input to control other stuff has some practical obstacles. The ecobee component of HA connects to ecobee servers over the Internet and their servers connect back to your home thermostat. There are at least two problems here. The first is there are many links in this path, most outside your control and any broken link, such at an ecobee server down, means your thing is down too. The other problem is delay. It may take one to five minutes for a ecobee sensor change to get back to your HA where you can use it. Not practical to use to turn on a light when you enter a room.
There is another way to connect ecobee to HA using the Apple Homekit path that your thermostat supports. Problem is that this development is not ready yet. When ready it will have the advantage of working in-home without needing a long Internet path, but even then there may be delays longer than what you need.
Thanks for your reply.
It’s the nature of the beast. Any broken link will break a lot of other things in my setup. The main issue is at this moment to simply make this component work in HA… You say there are enough documentations about this topic, maybe, nevertheless I am not familiar with what components are by default present on HA and If the ecobee component it should be one of them, what I can say I did exactly what is in the guide and it doesn’t work.
The ideea with homekit is nice but since as you say is not yet available (and even it was I might be in the same impass).
not knowing where in the process you are in so far as setting up an ecobee it’s hard to provide advice.
setting up an api key and adding homeassistant as an application on ecobee’s website is pretty well covered.
EDIT: the no default_view is in the setup guide. my bad. disregard.