8 hours ago, EricBarish said:

I went with home assistant last week. Connected my ecobee (by homekit) and roombas, garage control and other items in a few mintues. Really like the dash board on Home assistant. Figuring out the programing, AI helped a lot.

Using home assistant as an interface to devices missing in Eisy and Eisy for most programs and my smarthome, zwave and zigbee control.

Home assistant has an Eisy/ISY integration so I can pass data between the two systems using eisy variables.

With dashboard can quicky see what is going on with the systems.

Should have done this a while ago with the loss of the ecobee cloud connection and (Homekit ? on eisy) pushed me to make the jump.

Doesn't Ecobee work with Home Assistant without Homekit? Speaking of AI, I used it to write my own plugin. It isn't very polished and does not do as much as Jimbo's but it has gotten me by since it went down. I had my own developer key luckily. One thing I could never figure out (AI could not I mean :) ) was how to get the comfort setting names into the ISY. It just calls them SMART1, 2, etc... It also does not show the comfort setting in the program, you have to click the program line to see it. I do plan to go back to Jimbo's eventually. Just a lot of work to update all my programs.

11 minutes ago, btreinders said:

Doesn't Ecobee work with Home Assistant without Homekit?

Yes. There are several integrations for ecobee. Two are official:

1- An intergraiton when you already have your own dev key. It provides access to everything the Ecobee API offers, is cloud based and no Homekit needed. similar experience to Jimbo's Plugin.

2- A homekit device integration. You log your ecobee in on the same L2 lan as your HA server (L2 Bonjour based), the integraton sees it and the thermostat offers a pin to authenticate with. It offers some important features yet is also feature hampered by Homekit Accessory Protocol's (HAP) more limited definition of a thermostat. It however is completely local, cloud free and no apple products are required.

Yes, the Homekit method does have missing features which is a bummer, but being all local is nice since there is no polling delay. I was really hoping Ecobee would allow us to use the local method, and the cloud method for features missing with local but no luck. UDI is working with Ecobee on getting API access back but no promises yet, and sounds like the API is different so will require some development.