Official Ecobee 3 Integration

Devices & Integrations
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What do you think about toning down the logging? It spams the activity feed like crazy - can’t find anything else…

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To reduce the logging, just edit the device’s preferences and make sure that the trace parameter is empty.

P.S. I need some basic logging to detect any exceptions/errors.

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Do you have marketing data on this?.. I have been looking for market share info and its not EZ to find specifics

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I can’t wait to get mine up and running…

I have a really funky setup in the new house (3 zones, boiler, 2 air handlers) and the wiring has their support people scratching their heads.

The last I got from them today is to just give them a call when I have time and I’m near the equipment so they can try to figure out what’s going on. Hopefully I can get it hooked up to try the integration.

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Can someone please help me. Ive followed the instructions to set this up for my ecobee3 but when I get to the login screen screen on myecobeeinit and then hit the ecobee required tab, it goes to a blank page and never asks me to log in

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@umpmanjoe, did you follow the step by step instructions at my github?:smile:

I just executed MyEcobeeInit and it works well on my side.

You may want to active live logging in the IDE and PM me any exceptions in the logs:

https://graph.api.smartthings.com/ide/logs

Regards.

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I got it. It just took a while. the problem now is that in the app on my iPhone, it shows the temperature. Down on the bottom it has the up and down arrows and in the middle it says 59 degrees heat. The problem is that the ecobee is on cool right now. How can I use the smart things app to change what temperature I want the ecobee to go to, or can’t I?

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What you should see, it’s something similar to this:

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You can then press the up and down arrows next to ‘Cool’ to change the cooling setpoint.

If you see something different, you may be using the stock ecobee device, not My custom Ecobee device.

Regards*

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this is all I have

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Is there more I need to add? Sorry for the questions, but I’m new to this

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@umpmanjoe, Can you scroll down?

It looks like you took a picture of the upper part only.
Bye

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OK, im an idiot, I didnt realize you scroll down. But how come when I press the arrow buttons, nothing happens

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@umpmanjoe, you can see in the recently tab if the command was executed properly… There may be exceptions if the ST-ecobee connection needs to be reset.

Bye.

P. S. I think that Smartthings is doing some kind of maintenance on the ST-ecobee connection pool as I have a lot of exceptions myself… So, be patient and try again later

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I am new to ST and was able to utilize the code here to integrate my Ecobee 3. Thank you for such a fantastic program! Can anyone share thoughts on how I could turn on the fan if two temperature sensors are x degrees apart (i.e. 4 degrees higher upstairs vs downstairs)? Let’s say my upstairs sensor is showing 79 degrees and my downstairs temperature is 75 degrees. Would it make sense to operate the furnace fan until the difference in temperatures of the two sensors are less than, for example, 2 degrees? Would something like this be difficult?

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@zosobao, the following smartapp has some capabilities built-in. You can specify a max temp adjustment within a schedule and if the temp differential between all your indoor sensors is too big, then the fan mode settings will be overridden with the fan mode settings associated to the schedule. Otherwise, the default fan settings associated to your ecobee program/climate (ex. Home, Away, Awake, Sleep) will be set.

This smartapp has been designed for ecobee users, and can override ecobee’s program (heating/cooling setpoints, fan settings) based on some indoor/outdoor conditions. It also shares the same foundation & features as this generic one:

Please support the developer!
Regards

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Thank you. Unfortunately I am unable to understand the setup within the application. It might take me some time to figure it out, as I guess I would be assigning the outside temperature input as the reference for which all the other temp sensors would compute their thresholds from.

I did want to comment back and thank you for your suggestions.

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@zosobao, the average temp calculation is not based on outdoor temp sensor, but on the indoor temp sensors inside the zone that you define based on the rooms configuration

The following are 2 distinct features:

  • Ability to adjust your main thermostat’s settings (every 5 minutes) based on an outdoor temp sensor (optional)
    ** coolModeThreshold: set the thermostat to ‘cool’ mode according to a given outdoor temp threshold
    ** heatModeThreshold: set the thermostat to ‘heat’ mode according to a given outdoor temp threshold
    ** moreHeatThreshold: increase the heating setpoint according to a given outdoor temp threshold
    ** moreCoolThreshold: increase the cooling setpoint according to a given outdoor temp threshold
    ** moreFanThreshold: set the thermostat’s fanMode (‘on’, ‘auto’, ‘circulate’) according to a given outdoor temp threshold

  • Average temp calculation based on all room temp sensors inside the zone so that heat/cool settings are adjusted at the main thermostat even if your rooms are far away from it

Regards.

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@yvesracine, I have just gone through set up again. I assigned my temp sensors to rooms and then rooms to zones. It would appear that I cannot compare the temps in the two zones to each other and run the fan based on a temperature difference between the two zones. The schedule portion of setup appears to only look at the outside temperature to determine whether more heating or cooling is desired in a zone? This is where I stumble. I only want a difference of temperature, let’s say 3 degrees, to determine whether the furnace fan should be operated to cause equilibrium between zones. I don’t understand how I can accomplish that within the setup.

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@zosobao, if your only requirement is to control the fan based on a temp differential between rooms, then the smartapp is not really designed to do only this.

It was designed to provide a multi zoned heating/cooling solution for your home, so a much greater scope.

For each room, you associate a zone inside your home where you want to control the heating/cooling for your comfort (based on indoor sensors and vents). The zones are applied inside your home when a schedule is run.

So for example, during the nights “schedule”, the smartapp will use only my upstairs temp sensors to average out the desired temp setpoint in the upstairs zone (which is composed of all the bedrooms). It will not used my temp sensors downstairs as they are not relevant for the “nights” schedule.

The setup is a bit complex because of the room by room configuration required to create the zone(s) and schedule(s) to control the zones.

But, on top of doing the zoned heating/cooling, it can do the following (as far as the fan settings are concerned):

  • Override any programmed fan settings at ecobee with a new fan mode when the temp differential inside a zone (i.e. collection of rooms) is too big (not between 2 zones).

As an example, let’s say you have many indoor temp sensors inside a zone and the temp differential for that collection of rooms is too wide (above max temp adjustment defined in the associated schedule), then the fan mode at ecobee will be overridden with the new fan mode defined for the schedule.

  • Override any programmed fan settings at ecobee with a new fan mode when outdoor temp is above a certain threshold.

So, if you have programmed ecobee to ‘fan auto’’ during the day (Home program), and one of the above condition is met, then the fan mode can be changed to “fan on” during the “Home” schedule defined in the smartapp.

I hope that these explanations will give a clearer picture of what the smartapp can do for you.
Regards.

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@yvesracine Thank you. I believe I understand. In my case - here is my setup based on your instructions. I have 4 rooms, each with their own temp sensor. I have included all 4 rooms in one zone. To this zone, I have added a schedule. I identify which Ecobee program to associated this schedule and then within it would only utilize the “Max Temp Adjustment” and “Set Fan Mode” portions of the program. For the “Max Temp Adjustment,” I am utilizing 4 degrees. I have “Fan Mode” set as “on”.

So, if the average temperature difference between all 4 sensors is 4 degrees or greater, the fan will turn to “on”, otherwise the fan mode is the same as my Ecobee Program? Am I now understanding correctly? If so, perhaps my 4 degree threshold is too high or I should utilize a few number of sensors.

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