🔥 Advanced Heating Control

[laudge]

Hi,

Really good job this Blueprint. Thanks a lot ! Was anyoed by my Viessman ViCare app and in a few hours the result of HA+ AHC gives much more control ! really happy.

I have Viessmann ZK03840 TRV. To my understanding they do not have calibration function (but I am not 100% sure).
I have a couple of rooms where there is a need of “Room temperature Sensor” because heaters are kind of in a niche and the “TRV temperature sensor” goes up very fast. Therefore I activated “generic calibration”

Question 1)
Does the “generic calibration” uses the “Room temperature Sensor” ? or is it just a fixed offset ?

Question 2)
In “Heating Schedule Adjustments” instead of eco: “19” , I woulld like to replace the 19 by input_number.temp_night_global. Is it possible ? How do I write that in proper code ?

[panhans]

@laudge

Question 1)
Does the “generic calibration” uses the “Room temperature Sensor” ? or is it just a fixed offset ?

Yes, the reference temperature is the value of your room temperature sensor.

Press the D-Key anywhere in home assistant and type the name of your thermostat and press enter. In the following device page have a look for number entities. Usually the named like something with offset, calibration, external temperature ect. But it could also depends on the integration you use.

@laudge

Question 2)
In “Heating Schedule Adjustments” instead of eco: “19” , I woulld like to replace the 19 by input_number.temp_night_global. Is it possible ? How do I write that in proper code ?

Yes, this is possible. Just type the entity id instead of the number value.

[foggy011983]

You are a diamond. Thank you so much sir!!!
If I could give you a kiss I would

You have no idea how long I’ve been playing about with this.

[Aimero]

I think I have a understanding problem with external temp sensors and the calibration
I have Sonoff TRVZB as Radiatorvalves.

In the automation I’ve added the room temperature sensor and I set the calibration settings to this:

But it doesn’t seem to use it since the thermometer shows 20ish degree but the radiator isn’t heating to 22°C

[panhans]

Hmm… I use the same thermostats. The calibrated temperature is nearly the same like the value of the sensor. Did you check graph of the calibration entity if this works in your setup? Mine looks like this:

[Aimero]

Funny, I adjusted the calibration value and now it works.
Could it be that it doesn’t trigger when you duplicate the automation?

I saw this on 3 Automations now. It didn’t work until I changed the calibration delta and saved the automation.

But knowing this, I can now change them all one time.

I changed the calibration from 0,5 to 0,2 on 07:14 this morning:

[metabubble (Christian Hawkins)]

I have extensively deployed your blueprint at home, but now I am facing headaches when integrating the climate Entity with homekit and having my family interact.

Ideally, I would like the temperature to reset the latest an hour after they manually intervened, because they only know on but not off

Would it be possible to add a configuration option “Rerun actions after xx:xx:xx time passed since manual climate adjustment”. That way they can increase the temperature when they want, and an hour later, whatever policy was set is used again?

I know that if some other rule happens in the meantime, that already changes the temperature back and that’s fine. I just want to avoid heating for hours when nobody is using the room.

Edit: differentiating manual and script triggered target temperature change might be hard, so it could just be “run at least every x time to reset temperature”. I think I could also write external automations for that, but that’s something for after I recovered from COVID -.-

[laudge]

Thanks a lot for your answer !

1. working now
   2)what do I do wrong here ? :

• time: “21:26”
  eco: input_number.temp_night_global

[panhans]

@metabubble
I’d updated the FAQ because this question is often asked.

@laudge

1. 2)what do I do wrong here ? :

• time: “21:26”
  eco: input_number.temp_night_global

I tried this:

- time: "10:10"
  eco: input_number.temp_temp

Worked for me as expected with and without an eco temperature number entity. You could share a trace log if you like. Have a look in the troubleshooting section in the first post of this thread.

[laudge]

I created same temp_temp. Still do not manage

trace: here

[panhans]

You need at least on entity that toggles between eco and comfort. This could be a person, schedule, persence sensor, proximity device, guest mode entity. Without any of this only window detection and calibration is working.

For a minimal setup just create an input_boolean and set this as guest mode entity or presence sensor.

[laudge]

I make some tests following your advice.Now I understand the concept: just putting several values for eco in the heating plan at different times do not work, the new eco value is forwarded to the thermostat only if something else happen. with this understanding I managed to implement what i wanted to do. Thanks (just for info: what is strange is that the first event in the heating plan does not need this „something has to happen“)

[Mar1us]

@panhans

ahc_blueprint_local_version

was there any update on this? Or still a HA bug?

[LVG2000]

Great blueprint, works like a charm for my central heating system. But i also want to use this template to control my daikin ac. Is there a way to program that under 19° it will heat and above 24° it will cool?

[Moet (Markus)]

@panhans

Hi,
i seem to have one problem fixed.
I deactivated my BT and also realized that i was running a ancient Zigbee2MQTT COntainer on docker. I did upgrade the system to 2.0.0.1 and it is running now. I havent had a shutdown issue since then.

But now i have an temperature issue. When i leave the room and the temps go down they sink lower then they should. I have a external room sensor tefined, so the temperature in the room should be calibrated on that one, right? Instead it looks like that:

It looks like it its calibrating the room temperature on the thermostats temperature sensor (16,9°C).

That was my trace:
https://controlc.com/8d3db55b

What am i doing wrong?

[panhans]

@Moet

That was my trace:
https://controlc.com/8d3db55b

Unfortunately this is a dead link. Did you disable the whole BT integration or just for specific thermostat?

@Mar1us

was there any update on this? Or still a HA bug?

Unfortunately I didn’t have time to take care of it. Also I did not created an issue in the github.

@LVG2000

But i also want to use this template to control my daikin ac. Is there a way to program that under 19° it will heat and above 24° it will cool?

No not possible atm. Do you mean the outside temperature with the values?

[LVG2000]

@panhans

No not possible atm. Do you mean the outside temperature with the values?

Yes or even inside temperature from a room temperature sensor. If i can make a future request, this will be it.

[Chykan (Andrew)]

I have developed a flow in NodeRED that does that, maintains inside dew point comfort levels based on outside and indoor dew point.

I am just at version 4 at the moment and it is holding quite steady, while being power efficient. Version 5 will be uploaded soon.

Apologies not meaning to the hi-jack thread. Dew point control is a tighter way to handle indoor comfort.

I use Daikin with TADO.

TADO Air Conditioning Climate Control via OUTDOOR DEW POINT COMFORT - Triggers - Door, Presence, TTS

TADO Climate Control via OUTDOOR DEW POINT COMFORT - Triggers - Door, Presence, TTS This flow uses Outside Dew Point Temperature to control TADO Smart AC Control V3+ through Home Assistant, this also does not require a paid subcription to TADO. Home and Away Presence Sensing Door and Window Open Detection Uses Outside Dew Point to set Heating, Comfort or Cooling Programs Uses Indoor Dew Point to set Heating, Drying, Cooling or OFF Modes Heat Boost Mode if the Dew Point is low in a room Sets A/…

[Moet (Markus)]

@panhans

Unfortunately this is a dead link. Did you disable the whole BT integration or just for specific thermostat?

Here are the Trace Links (last 5):
https://controlc.com/8b7e53cc
https://controlc.com/0e22ed87
https://controlc.com/ca0475f9
https://controlc.com/f0b8c7ea
https://controlc.com/b21d3193

I only deactivated the specific BT. I have the same thermostat in my livingroom and it works there (BT climate entitie as thermostat in the AHC Blueprint).
I could try doing the same thing in my office… but shouldnt it work anyway without the BT? i dont thing BT is causing isuues with the office thermostat eather when it is deactivated…

[ErikSteiner]

@panhans

I could open up the presence sensor and guest mode selector for switches. I think the custom schedule component generate switches, right? The rest like setting the tempera

That would be cool, the only issue, that I have with that component, is that I currently see no option to alter the entity, that is used to evaluate weekday and weekend. Currently with AHC, I have created my own workday sensor and use it as a switcher to select one of two schedules. Like it is described in your blueprint and that is working very good.