Climate entity how display an attribute

Installation Home Assistant OS
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Hi

I have setup the eq3btsmart, that is a climate entity. Now I see a value that is not shown default on the dashboard , but it is an attribute as shown below. I want to display the valve also on my home screen , how can i use this?? I can’t use the sensor template, because it is a climate .

climate.zolder manual

is_locked: false
unit_of_measurement: °C
current_temperature: 18.5
friendly_name: Zolder
away_mode: off
low_battery: false
min_temp: 5
window_open: false
operation_mode: manual
operation_list: off,on,auto,manual,away,boost
valve: 58
away_end: null
max_temp: 29.5
temperature: 18.5

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But you can use the Template Sensor :slightly_smiling_face:

3

How do I create it??

I got this climate device

climate:

  • platform: eq3btsmart
    devices:
    Zolder:
    mac: ‘xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx’

and this sensor template for it?

sensor:

  • platform: template
    sensors:
    zoldervalve:
    value_template: ‘{{ states.climate.zolder.attributes.valve }}’

but than I get errors:

2017-11-21 15:47:03 ERROR (MainThread) [homeassistant.config] Invalid config for [sensor.template]: expected a dictionary for dictionary value @ data[‘sensors’][‘value_template’]. Got ‘{{ states.climate.zolder.attributes.valve }}’
expected a dictionary for dictionary value @ data[‘sensors’][‘zoldervalve’]. Got None. (See ?, line ?). Please check the docs at https://home-assistant.io/components/sensor.template/

4

Try

value_template: '{{ states.climate.zolder.attributes.valve.state }}'

And don’t forget to use the code formatting tool </> when quoting your code - without it nobody can tell if there are indentation problems.

5

{{ states.climate.zolder.attributes.valve }} should work.
What shows Developer Tools/Templates if you paste the above in?

6

Hi

checked with developer tools/templates, and gives the right value.

I delete the complete entry, and cut and past the template sensor example and replaced with my values, and now it works.

Thnx for the support

7

Hi @kroonen, one question. How did you set up the eq3btsmart component? I’m always getting the following error message:

2017-11-26 13:48:14 ERROR (SyncWorker_8) [homeassistant.util.package] Unable to install package python-eq3bt==0.1.6: Command “/usr/bin/python3 -u -c “import setuptools, tokenize;file=‘/tmp/pip-build-iuwd60k5/bluepy/setup.py’;f=getattr(tokenize, ‘open’, open)(file);code=f.read().replace(‘\r\n’, ‘\n’);f.close();exec(compile(code, file, ‘exec’))” install --record /tmp/pip-epjpec19-record/install-record.txt --single-version-externally-managed --prefix --compile --user --prefix=” failed with error code 1 in /tmp/pip-build-iuwd60k5/bluepy/ 2017-11-26 13:48:14 ERROR (MainThread) [homeassistant.setup] Not initializing climate.eq3btsmart because could not install dependency python-eq3bt==0.1.6 2017-11-26 13:48:14 ERROR (MainThread) [homeassistant.setup] Unable to prepare setup for platform climate.eq3btsmart: Could not install all requirements.

Thanks!

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Hi , I also had this problem with the default os (resinos) , but when installing hassbian, is worked out of the box

9

Okay, thanks. I was thinking that you were able to get this working with hass.io…

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hassbian is also hass.io but than on debian.

https://home-assistant.io/docs/installation/hassbian/installation/

regards Richard

11

Hey kroonen,

hassbian and hass.io are both home assistant but they’e not the same. hass.io is running in a docker so that makes it a little bit more difficult to install additional packages :slight_smile: I found a temporary workaround I will try this evening.

12

Would you mind sharing the exact code for the climate sensor template you created? I’m trying to follow these instructions and can’t get this to work. I want to create a sensor (entity?) that displays the current temperature reading from my climate devices. I have several minisplits that are connected with the Honeywell platform. Thanks in advance!