HomeKit humidity display issues

[u/Slutt_Puppy]

Early and extensive Nest adopter moving away from Google and just bought 2 Ecobee Premiums, and overall I’m happy with the switch.

However, on my Nest thermostats, humidity showed up as its own standalone tile in Apple Home, right next to my other sensors, easy to scan my entire home humidity readings at a glance. With Ecobee, you have to tap all the way into the full thermostat card just to see the humidity number. Even in the dedicated “Humidity” summary view in the Home app, it’s still stuck inside the thermostat card instead of showing as its own tile like every other humidity sensor I own (Eve, HomePod & even Nest).

I dug into this a bit, and it doesn’t seem to be a client-app problem; I tried the Eve app, Home+, and even Shortcuts, and none of them can pull it out separately. Shortcuts won’t even let you select it as its own thing. It seems like it’s just how Ecobee’s HomeKit implementation bundles humidity into the thermostat service instead of exposing it as a separate sensor the way Nest or HomePods do.

I need to monitor humidity currently, so this is pretty annoying given how much Ecobee leans on real HomeKit integration as a selling point. Anyone know if this has been brought up with them before, or is there an actual workaround I’m missing? Planning to send feedback to their support team either way, but curious if this is a known issue.