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My biggest concern about the new Edge platform is, with everyone rushing to just get their driver out, we’ll get a bunch of plain vanilla drivers that lack thoughtful capabilities that make the platform useful.

See my post today regarding changes made to ecobee which deprecated some very desirable capabilities that created a great automation ecosystem with ST and Classic.

Ecobee integration: another example of moving backwards to move forward?

When NewApp was introduced, we found that the Resume function was no longer implemented in the app UI. However, Webcore’s resumeProgram() continued to work, and I leveraged that. Fine. At some point last week, the ecobee integration in NewApp just stopped working, status was checking continuously. So I went into the Linked Services and had to re-authenticate - I presume a backend/driver change. Now I find that not only does webcore resumeProgram() function no longer works, but the integration no longer offers the feature of the previous @ecobee integration to choose whether changes in ST are temporary (overridden by the next schedule change) or permanent until cancelled. So now, if I’m going to make a change in an ST Automation to temperature (e.g. to lower the thermostat when everyone l…