Official Ecobee 3 Integration

[yvesracine]

Well, I can guarantee you that with my DTH, you will not lose your ecobee connections (unless the ST or the ecobee servers are down of course). My Ecobee device is far more resilient than the ST stock device because of the different mechanisms I’ve put into my code.

Personally, I’ve not lost my connection since the beginning of the year (the last time we had serious issues with the ST platform). And, I’ve seen 6 ecobee thermostats and many remote sensors (8) in a single user location not losing their connections either. You have to properly configure the app for that workload.

I’ve been constantly improving the DTH’s resilience since I created it:

• Contrary to the ST stock device, it does not use any scheduling to renew the auth tokens

• It uses less state variables. If you want to know the impact of state variables, read the following:

Loss of State affecting some users / some SmartApps (was Death knell for RM today?)

Noticed some actions triggering incorrectly all over the house today and just looked at some of the rules. It seems that rule machine conditions are all gone from the smartapp as of today. Everything was working fine until this morning. Is this the grails change? Anyone else notice the same yet? I’ve not migrated over from RM to CoRE sure to the sheer number of rules I’ve built up over time. Looks like I’ve now no choice!

• It now uses the latest async requests to avoid timeouts.

Asynchronous HTTP API - Beta Launch

Originally published at: http://devblog.smartthings.com/2016/10/17/asynchronous-http-api-beta-launch/ SmartThings Developers - we’re excited to announce a beta version of APIs that allow developers to make HTTP requests to third party services asynchronously. These APIs work similarly to existing APIs like httpGet(), httpPut(), etc., but with one big difference - they are executed asynchronously. Here’s an example of making an asynchronous GET request: include ‘asynchttp_v1’ def initialize() { def params = [ uri: “https://api.github.com”, path: “/search/code”, query: [q:‘httpGet+repo:SmartThingsCommunity/SmartThingsPublic’] ] // make request, passing the name of the method to call // with the response asynchttp_v1.get(“responseHandle…

If you don’t believe my words, just read the feedback from my contributors in the My Ecobee device thread.

Regards,

P.S. I have 16 smart vents controlled via My Ecobee device and my “ecobeeSetZoneWithSchedule” smartapp, and I just forgot about them. They work in a reliable manner without me having to think about it.