Install the Ecobee EMS Conduit

Installation on the Droplit Portal

1. Login to the Droplit portal, and select the Integrations tab.
2. Select Ecobee EMS under "Thermostats", and select Install.
3. Provide a value for the "Poll Rate" field. The value of the field is how often, in minutes, the conduit will poll provisioned devices for changes.
4. Select Save & apply.
5. Copy the "Redirect Domain" field; it will be pasted into another tab.

Configuration on the Ecobee Web Portal

1. Login to the Ecobee web portal with an Ecobee EMS account.
2. Select the developer tab in the top-right corner.
3. Under "Apps", select Create New.
4. Fill in the "App Name", "App Summary", and "App Description" fields as you see fit.
5. Under "Auth Method", select Authorization Code.
6. Paste the Redirect Domain copied from the Droplit portal into the "Redirect Domain" field.
7. Select Create.

8. Select the newly created application from the list.
9. Under the Name and Summary tab, copy the "API key".

Configuration on the Droplit Portal

1. Return to the Ecobee EMS page on the Droplit portal.
2. Paste the copied API key into the "API key" field.
3. Select Save & apply.

Activate the Ecobee EMS Conduit

Since only one conduit exists per ecosystem, the /ecosystems API or the /conduits API may be used to activate it. The response of both API calls is a redirection URL that is used to authenticate with Ecobee.

Using the /ecosystems API

API call:

GET https://ioe.droplit.io/api/ecosystems/C59434aae4ca2fb182b7af191/conduits/droplit-ecobee-ems/activate HTTP/1.1
authorization: AUTH_TOKEN

Response:

{
    "redirect": "https://yo.droplit.io/auth/activate?session=XIrpv4noD8PsSEWKISk4hY9dwym1XbawDjtSi7p4t9E",
    "ttl": 1800
}

Using the /conduits API

API call:

POST https://ioe.droplit.io/api/conduits/5b55395d2f3804ca96802285/conduit-activations

Response:

{
    "redirect": "https://dev-yo.droplit.io/auth/activate?session=QYUx1phDiqjSHTls_Z2AXPDCQ2LV032IS1PQ6Hx-U3s",
    "ttl": 1800
}

List EMS Thermostats

A list of all the EMS thermostats supported by the conduit can be obtained by making the following request:

GET https://ioe.droplit.io/api/conduits/:conduitId/conduit-activations/:activationId/local-devices HTTP/1.1
authorization: AUTH_TOKEN

The body of the JSON response contains the following keys:

• localId: the unique identifier provided by Ecobee
• customName: the name of the thermostat provided by Ecobee
• isProvisioned: boolean value indicating if the device is provisioned to at least one environment
• environments: array of environmentIds indicating the environments to which the device is provisioned
• localData: When the expand query parameter is set to LocalData, all of the thermostat's data is included in the response.

Provision Devices

Devices connected to the Droplit system through the droplit-ecobee-ems conduit may be provisioned to several different environments; they are not necessarily limited to a single environment. The option still exists, however, to provision the conduit's devices to a single environment by specifying an environment during the conduit's activation.

Devices are provisioned to an environment when they are created. In order to create a device that utilizes the droplit-ecobee-ems conduit, the body of the request must contain the following keys:

• environmentId: The ID of the environment to which the device will be provisioned. If an environment was specified during the activation of the conduit, only that environment will be accepted.
• localId: the device's unique identifier provided by Ecobee
• conduitActivationId: the ID of the activation to which the device will be attached

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