I have a thermostat sketch running on a particle photon which shows up as a homekit device in the apple home app or HA. The sketch contains the temperature control logic and HA simply provides a setpoint, on/off, and monitors the actual temperature. This shows up as a thermostat device in HA. However, I am having problems with it and am looking to abandoned the library in the sketch which presents it as a homekit device.
I plan to use webhooks to communicate helper values to the sketch for communication. I looked at the generic thermostat device in HA but I don’t want the temperature control logic in HA. I want to keep that in the sketch. Is there a way to create a dashboard device in HA that looks like the generic thermostat or the homekit thermostat did just for controlling the thermostat logic in my sketch?