Ecobee 3 Remote Sensors into ST

[yvesracine]

Hello @lobo5519,

Actually, this has been discussed for a while (at the beginning of this thread),

ecobee3 w/ External Sensors

@yvesracine When that occurs, does this mean we’ll be able to use the ecobee’s remote motion sensors to trigger other things, such as lights? Will that also be the case for the motion sensor in the thermostat proper? VERY interested if this is the case as I am toying between buying nests or ecobee3s in the coming weeks.

but ecobee doesn’t allow real-time events. Also, on the ST side,there are some rate limiting and max execution time constraints to take into account which is why the polling interval cannot be lower than 10 minutes (at least for the moment, maybe HubV2 will open new possibilities).

Anyhow, there are some ecobee constraints, see this ecobee thread about it:

http://developer.ecobee.com/api/topics/what-will-be-the-refresh-rate-for-the-ecobee3s-remote-sensor-data

And, here in the ecobee API documentation:

https://www.ecobee.com/home/developer/api/documentation/v1/objects/RemoteSensor.shtml

Which states (about motion occupancy):

The remote sensor data will only show computed occupancy, as does the thermostat. Definition - For a given sensor, computed occupancy means a sensor is occupied if any motion was detected in the past 30 minutes.

Regards.