Hello everyone,
A few days ago I switched from OpenHAB to Home Assistant, and so far everything has gone quite smoothly.
Although I am running HA in a Docker container, there currently don’t seem to be any major issues that I can attribute to that.
However, I’m having trouble with one thing at the moment: integrating the MAX system. I know the MAX system is no longer the newest, but it actually still works quite well. In OpenHAB I had a function where, if all valves of the heating circuit were at 0% (i.e. closed), the circulation pump was switched off.
Unfortunately, I can’t currently find a way to read the valve position. I found a custom integration on GitHub (https://github.com/MassiPi/maxcube) and manually copied it into the custom_components directory.
The OpenHAB binding was able to read the valve position; I just don’t know how to read and transfer the required information from the binding. Letting OpenHAB continue running and exchanging data back and forth between OpenHAB and Home Assistant doesn’t seem like a good solution to me either.
My MAX system currently consists of:
- Radiator thermostats (including the “+” variant)
- Wall thermostats
- Window contacts
- Smart plugs
- Cube
I would appreciate any help. In general, I can see my components in HA, each with one entity per value. In the dashboard I can see the current temperature, and I would like to integrate this into a “fire warning” if the temperature is >50 °C (fire risk). For that, however, I need to know how to get this value into a rule. Maybe I don’t fully understand the concept of device values yet, and I’m also open to any hints in that regard.
It might also be possible to group the entities into a single device, but I haven’t found how to do that yet.
Best regards,
Heiko
