Hi, I’ve recently bought an Ecostrad Wifi radiator which uses the Tuya SmartLife app.
I already had LocalTuya setup on my Home Assistant, so adding the radiator was easy enough, however there’s something a bit strange about how they’ve configured it.
I’ve managed to get it working but I’m wondering if there’s a way to customise it so it’s working as expected.
In the LocalTuya configuration, the first DP (id 1) is the on/off state as true or false which I set as the ID.
Below is a list of the full DPs available:
[
{
"code": "switch",
"value": true
},
{
"code": "mode",
"value": "hot"
},
{
"code": "temp_set",
"value": 200
},
{
"code": "temp_current",
"value": 255
},
{
"code": "temp_correction",
"value": -2
},
{
"code": "child_lock",
"value": false
}
]
However, the created device does not give me the ability to turn it on and off, nor does it show the status, it just says Unknown:
The temperature slider does work, and the reported current temperature is also accurate, it’s just the power that isn’t right.
Interestingly though, if I go back to LocalTuya, add another device and put the same IP and device info in, but this time tell Home Assistant it’s a switch, the additional switch entity does operate the on/off mode:
Is there a way I can adapt the climate entity so that it reads the on/off value the same way as the switch does, so I don’t need to two separate controls, and so I don’t need the ugly Unknown value?