Configuring nest so it show up in Overview

jeroenb42 · March 15, 2018, 12:54pm

I can’t seem to figure this out; I have configured the nest component and climate, restarted, authenticated with Nest but nothing is showing up after that. I am hoping to find some sort of display like shown in:

Part of my configuration.yaml:

nest:
  client_id: aaaaaaaa-aaaa-aaaa-aaaa-aaaaaaaaaaaa
  client_secret: aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
climate:
  platform: nest

I also added this in one of the groups (even though it should already show up):

    - climate.nest

What am I doing wrong?

lolouk44 · March 15, 2018, 3:10pm

nest:
  client_id: aaaaaaaa-aaaa-aaaa-aaaa-aaaaaaaaaaaa
  client_secret: aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

Defines your nest thermostat.
Once auto discovered click on <> and searchf for your thermostat. It should be called something like climate.nest_name where nest_name is the name you gave your nest when you set it up the first time (on the nest itself, completely outside HA)

jeroenb42 · March 15, 2018, 4:19pm

Thanks. I did get a configure box and I filled in the code but after that, it does not show up, also not in the <> climate.*
I assume that there is some sort of error connecting but I don’t know where I can find it.

lolouk44 · March 15, 2018, 4:35pm

you may want to start again then, something did not go according to plan. you’ll need to delete nest.conf from your config directory and you’ll need to delete the nest product from the Developer API project.

jeroenb42 · March 16, 2018, 9:16pm

Thank you. That was it. I have the figures now at the top of the overview.
So how do I get the nice box as shown in the example?

lolouk44 · March 19, 2018, 9:07am

you need to create a group for it and then list the group on your page view…
check this page for more info:

This is my config:
Nest Group:

nest:
  - climate.hallway
  - sensor.hallway_thermostat_humidity
  - binary_sensor.hallway_heating
  - binary_sensor.hallway_thermostat_has_leaf

And how I call it from one of the group views:

Entrance:
  view: yes
  icon: mdi:home-modern
  entities:
    - light.hallway
    - group.nest

This is how it looks:

The additional sensors are template sensors extracting data from the main nest entity:

- platform: template
  sensors:
    hallway_heating:
      value_template: >
        {{ states.sensor.hallway_thermostat_hvac_state.state == 'heating'}}
      friendly_name: Hallway Heating
      device_class: heat

jeroenb42 · March 19, 2018, 9:45am

I have a great box on my screen now. Thanks!

derekwit · May 20, 2018, 1:09am

I just finished setting up my Nest Thermostats. I have (3):

Basement
Den
Upstairs

I was able to set up a view on my overview page and all three thermostat display just as I wanted them to. But across the top of my overview page I have 30 icon showing all of these states:

How do I remove these states and only show the climate box?

Thanks for any help given.

Derek