I’m using the Venstar platform for two climate entities in Home Assistant.
I’d like the “fan_state” attribute to turn on when the hvac_action is “heating” or “cooling” as well as when the fan is manually activated. This would simplify the setup of a binary sensor to keep track of when the HVAC unit is operating. Such a binary sensor makes it possible to set up a history_stats sensor to keep track of hvac runtime.
Currently, at least on the Venstar platform, fan_state only activates when the fan is set to “on” instead of “auto”. This makes it redundant to the fan_mode attribute.
Please let me know if this should be reported elsewhere!