ESPHome: Climate Template for a Dometic RV AC Unit

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Hi!

Not sure if this is the right place but…

I have HA in my camper van working great. I have a custom ESPHome device talking to my Truma heating that also works perfectly! It displays the various entities BUT it also exposes a Climate entity with the Horseshoe temperature control and and some buttons for changing fan mode etc.

Now I also have a Dometic AirCon unit that I would also like to control similarly.

The AC unit has BLE control and I have been able to write a YAML file for another ESP device with which I can control all the modes, fan, temperature etc. through HA. Still a bit of a work in prgress but mostly there by sniffing the connection!

However, I would like to present the data similarly to the Truma heater with a climate device but have hit the buffers! I cannot create a climate template in ESPHome 2026.
Is there a way I can combine my device data - sensors etc - into something that HA will interpret as a Climate device and present the climate graphic horseshoe entity does anybody know? Or will I have to go down the custom componengt route in Git :frowning:

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You don’t need Git to build external component… :wink:

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Did you take a look at what this can do yet?

It’s probably worth sharing some of your config too.

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hey @soram , thank you very much for taking up this work! I am looking forward to also running my Dometic AC on ESPHome. Would you kindly share what you already made working so we can iterate on that together in the community?

best
Lukas