Tag: smart home

A few months ago, I wrote a tutorial on modifying Home Assistant to allow for customizing Ecobee hold modes. Today, I’ll explain how to upgrade HASS once you have this (or any other customization) in place. It’s a little more complicated than just a straight upgrade as described in their documentation. For the original tutorial…

Ecobee: Customizing Hold Modes in Home Assistant For more than a few years, I’ve been using Home Assistant to run our home automations and smart home devices. I’ve always loved pretty much everything about it. However, one of the few things I disliked was their integration of Ecobee thermostats – of which we have two….