App #5: Smart Radiator (Generic)

[Burningstone]

I used to have something similar for a notification light when a window is opened. I’m currently on vacation, but I can check once I’m home again.

I think your app is solid, the only thing I would change is getting the entities from the args and not hardcode them. I always try not to hardcode anything in the app itself.

The other thing I can recommend is starting to use voluptuous. I wrote a quick introduction to it in this post in case you are interested.

My AppDaemon Apps

So quick introduction to voluptuous. It’s a library which can check incoming data, transform the data (if needed) and reject incorrect data. You can install it through pip. In voluptuous you create a schema and the data is then checked against this schema. If the data doesn’t match the schema, it will throw an error. A schema can have required and optional arguments. You can check the input against some included functions like str (string) or int (integer) or you can build your own validation f…