We will be working on making changes to the plugin to reduce polling to Ecobee servers in hopes that @Michel Kohanim can negotiate a deal with them. We can temporarily switch to another API key if anyone wants to give it out once we reduce polling.

On 4/26/2026 at 7:43 PM, Jimbo.Automates said:

We will be working on making changes to the plugin to reduce polling to Ecobee servers in hopes that @Michel Kohanim can negotiate a deal with them. We can temporarily switch to another API key if anyone wants to give it out once we reduce polling.

After all the algorithms I have use to control temperature ramping down during heating, and temperature ramping up during A/C (no brand does this), I ended up only using my third ecobee for Home/Vacation status.
It was a much more reliable status than any other method I had fund in years of experimenting. Hopefully this status will survive as it demands only one status point, unlike weather with it's dozens of analogue points.

ecobee has been the best stat I have used for HVAC from almost a dozen brands, so far. No the brand has had the accuracy of control, yet.

Best of luck with this. Your PG2/3 bridge plug-in has been the best.

On 4/26/2026 at 7:43 PM, Jimbo.Automates said:

We will be working on making changes to the plugin to reduce polling to Ecobee servers in hopes that @Michel Kohanim can negotiate a deal with them. We can temporarily switch to another API key if anyone wants to give it out once we reduce polling.

@Jimbo.Automates I don’t know if this is a valid concern or not, but I wanted to put it out there. With the old plugin there are changes to the thermostat settings made in IoX that take minutes for them to traverse from the plugin-> Ecobee via API -> back to my thermostat. With what you are working on… will reducing polling result in increasing the delays that I already see?

48 minutes ago, ISY4Me said:

@Jimbo.Automates I don’t know if this is a valid concern or not, but I wanted to put it out there. With the old plugin there are changes to the thermostat settings made in IoX that take minutes for them to traverse from the plugin-> Ecobee via API -> back to my thermostat. With what you are working on… will reducing polling result in increasing the delays that I already see?

That's an Ecobee limitation. We are only allowed to poll their servers every three minutes. The reduced polling will not change this, it only changed some other cases were that polling could be done more often. But, after making major code changes and sending a proposal to Ecobee asking them to give us back access, they haven't even respond to emails.

There are unconfirmed rumors that they would implement Matter support, but they won't answer questions about that either.

So, I'm actually working on a better solution. Developing a HomeKit plugin, which is done but undergoing testing and hardening for a beta release hopefully this weekend. This will allow you to connect the Ecobee to the HomeKit plugin. But if you rely on using HomeKit currently for Ecobee control, you can't have both...

Then major changes to the Ecobee plugin to talk to the HomeKit plugin to get Ecobee data.

The nice part is changes are reflected back to IoX very quickly.

But this has been a huge development effort so far and I haven't even started on the Ecobee side yet, so will have to really think about the price, it won't be a free upgrade.

@Jimbo.Automates Thank you for the update.

I am temporarily using IoX married with an Ecobee HA Integration w/API (no version of HomeKit ever installed). The HA Ecobee Integration is doing all the hardware control and all the logic is being done in IoX… so those delays are still being experienced, as would be expected. Hopefully just a temporary fix, but it allowed everything to continue to function.

Bringing HomeKit into PG3 while still using a version of the Ecobee PlugIn sounds like a cool solution. I look forward to the updates.

Thank you for all the work and support.

I went with the eisy hub specifically because Elk M1 lost the ability to integrate with other thermostats. UD was able to provide the thermostat/alarm integration I previously had so I can change my setpoints based on my alarm arm status and also by time of day. I hope there is a solution soon to get Ecobee working again.