Just my weekly post saying fuck Wink!
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Surprise surprise! Maybe this has something to do with them not caring?
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Wow! Not paying the employees, certainly explains a lot. I hope Emerson / Sensi wake up and partner with someone else, or publish docs on their own API.
You beat me to it lol! I was going to post this the other day and forgot. I am going to send another note to Emerson/Sensi right now asking if they are going to offer another option or not.
That’s too bad about Wink, I think the market needs decent smart hubs…competition is a good thing…problem is Wink didn’t do a good job of marketing what they had and their app wasn’t that good.
I have since purchased the GoControl HUSBZB-1 and couldn’t be happier. All my zigbee & z-wave devices works with it and responses are now virtually instantaneous!
Ironically I had gotten into Wink because of the Quirky AC system I first bought…from the looks of it I guess it will be a dumb-AC system by next summer.
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Do the quirky AC units support IR at all? Could use it with a broadlink controller. Not as good as complete integration but better than nothing.
Unfortunately no IR, but there are front panel controls so the unit can still be used as a manual unit.
Also it seems to be an Electric Imp device https://www.electricimp.com/platform/devices/ so maybe some way to access without Wink, but my skills in API’s is very limited.
Still, while Will.i.am is having money issues I’d be surprised if some company didn’t purchase the Wink assets…I would guess there is a pretty decent customer base out there and as we all know IoT isn’t going anywhere.
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Is it just me, my Sensi Thermostat started updating to Wink on 11/2/19 night…
Mine seems to be more accurate too, wonder if they’re working on it…
Sensi has updated their app to allow smart things integration. I just added my thermostat to smart things, but my sensi thermostat is sitting in a drawer since I replaced it with a z-wave one. But I don’t like it the various thermostats that z-wave ones create, so I may try plugging my sensi back in and seeing if I can pull the thermostat into home assistant through SmartThings.
I wonder if this is partially because wink is dead.
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Thanks for the heads-up, I just went through the whole procedure and it seems to be working so far. Hopefully I can say bye bye to Wink for good. 
I don’t have any smart things stuff yet - is it easy to integrate the thermostat into HA via smart things? Does it show up like any other device? (and I don’t need a smart things hub, right?)
It’s not hard at all, I just followed the guide here (Webhook method)
No hub needed and the thermostats show up properly. (see current temp, change target, change fan mode, etc.)
I have it working for me now…but every once in a while or when I actually look at the thermostat or Sensi app, it shows the temperature is set to 62 degrees even though it’s not. Anyone else having these issues?
For me, SmartThings and HA seem to always display the correct target temperature and mode, however quite often the current temperature of the thermostat is off.
Right now SmartThings is showing it’s 66° even though it’s really 72°.
Both Google Home and Alexa are showing the correct temperature so it seems to be isolated to the SmartThings integration.
Been really busy but going to contact Sensi and SmartThings support and see if either of them can be of any help.
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Thanks - let me know if you find anything out. I got some home for Sensi once they allowed Smart Things integration, but now I feel like it’s the Wink route again.
Submitted bug report to Sensi on this - still no fix or communication from them. It keeps going to 62 degrees randomly. I thought maybe it was a visual glitch, but it really sets the thermostat to that setting. I left it that way for a while, and the temp dropped. Looks like I’ll be taking my Sensi out of service again - such a good simple product ruined by no proper API support.
That’s really interesting. Mine always reports the correct target temperature and I can change in in HA and SmartThings with no issues but the current temperature reading updates maybe 2-3 times per day so it’s never correct.
This seems to be my exact experience as well. Also, I have the thermostat entities “unavailable” in HA after a restart, requiring another restart to fix it…
That’s happened to me a couple times too.
Someone from SmartThings support got back to me and they noticed that in the SmartThings IDE, the thermostat device type just says “placeholder”
I deleted the thermostat and the sensi integration from SmartThings and re-added it per their request but it’s still showing “placeholder” as the type.
I went to edit the device in the IDE and under device types, I don’t see any device type for Sensi, Emerson, etc. Not sure if that’s an issue or not.
I’ll update here when they get back to me.