Awesome Thermostat vs Better Thermostat vs Smart Thermostat with PID - which to choose? Or maybe creators could combine their POWERS to create ONE Powerful

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Hello to All,
This is my very first topic here, so if something is done wrongly, please let me know and I will correct it.

I was looking recently for some thermostat controlling components and I have found these three extremely interesting (in alphabetical order):

I was looking for something what would help me to control my thermostats in the rooms, where thermometers are also installed together with opened windows sensors.

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Has anyone experience with setting up Home Assistant to have one gas heater, which is controlled by one relay switch placed in one of the rooms, whilst all of the thermostats are not activating it?

Maybe you would have some other ideas, how to control:

  • each room separately for temperature
  • presence in each room changes the settings
  • open windows are closing thermostats
  • also maybe with using this PID option

Or maybe the creators would consider of joining forces and creating something Powerful?

Thank you and regards
Dawid

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Let me put Schedy to the selection, which i use currently. If i try something like better thermostat, which changes thermostat temperature, schedy thinks someone manually changed it which may have consequences for rescheduling time.

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Hey

That’s why I’m not using Schedy for Better Thermostat. Instead their own Blueprint.

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Hey @dawidmt, which thermostat did you end up using? I have a very similar setup to yours (add in some windows contacts) and have been struggeling with getting it to work reliably and efficient. I’m currently testing better thermostat, but it will take a few days to get an idea on how well it works.

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Hey @d.windisch
I have ended up with Versatile Thermostat - GitHub - jmcollin78/versatile_thermostat: A full featured Thermostat for Home Assistant: presets, window, motion, presence and overpowering management

Good luck

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I also want to know if we can update to this