razzamatazm/ecosee

Ecosee is a custom thermostat card for Home Assistant, the popular smart home platform. It replaces the plain, small default thermostat display with a full screen view showing a large, easy to read temperature, the current humidity, and a soft glow around the edge of the screen that shows whether the system is heating or cooling. You point it at any existing climate entity in your Home Assistant setup and it works with whatever that thermostat can report, whether it is a high end smart thermostat or a basic one. Tapping the card opens a set of controls that appear over the main screen and close on their own after a moment. These include adjusting the target temperature with a wheel or plus and minus buttons, switching between heat, cool, heat and cool, or off, choosing comfort presets like home, away, and sleep, controlling fan speed, viewing a list of room temperature sensors, and checking current weather and forecast. A menu button in the corner gathers all of these screens in one place. The card only shows the parts your thermostat entity actually supports, so a simple thermostat gets a clean minimal look with no empty or broken sections. Two optional extras can be turned on: air quality and UV index gauges along the bottom of the screen, and a dimmed standby clock screen for when the card is left idle, useful on a wall mounted tablet. Installation is meant for people already running Home Assistant with HACS, the Home Assistant Community Store, which lets you add the card with a single click or by adding the repository manually. After installing, you add the card to a dashboard either through the visual editor or by writing a small YAML configuration block, where only the entity option is required and everything else, like weather, humidity, and sensor entities, is optional. This project is aimed at Home Assistant users who want a more modern, glanceable thermostat interface for their smart home dashboards, especially on tablets or wall displays.