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      4 months ago

      And deal with breaking updates happening on HA and the thermostat software itself while simultaneously maintaining api keys and policy changes every 2-6 months.

      Its hard work.

      You’re better off making your own thermostat relay controller

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        From my understanding, those days are in the past. I can’t speak to that from experience because I only recently got into HA.

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          Depends on what proprietary WiFi controller you purchased. The one I bought for my electric underfloor heating makes me manually request new api key every 6 months. So I’ve had to write ANOTHER script to automate requesting a new key via their website with selenium

          Now theyve put a captcha in and ive since given up. I’m too old and busy for these games so I made my own janky looking ESP relay setup