Generic_thermostat like climate device bound to another climate device advice required

Configuration
1

Hi all,

I have a room where I have temperature measurements and an infrared panel that I would like to be able to bind to my main house temperature through my main climate device.

For example (this of course is not working since generic_thermostat does not support template values)

- platform: generic_thermostat
  name: Bedroom Climate
  heater: switch.bedroom_panel_switch
  target_sensor: sensor.bedroom_average_temperature
  min_temp:
    value_template: {{ (states.climate.toon_van_eneco.attributes.temperature | float) - 0.5 }}
  max_temp:
    value_template: {{ (states.climate.toon_van_eneco.attributes.temperature | float) + 0.5 }}
  ac_mode: False
  target_temp:
    value_template: {{ (states.climate.toon_van_eneco.attributes.temperature | float) }}
  cold_tolerance: 0.3
  hot_tolerance: 0
  min_cycle_duration:
    seconds: 60
  #keep_alive:
  #  minutes: 3
  initial_operation_mode: "off"
  #away_temp: 16

something like this would be ideal so whenever I change the value of my main climate device the generic thermostat responds accordingly. I hope what I am trying to achieve is clear and somebody has some idea on how I could go about implementing this.

2

Can you not write an automation to set the temperatures of the generic thermostat on state change of states.climate.toon_van_eneco.attributes.temperature? Id probably run an automation on HA start too just so that they are synced on a reboot.

3

Could you please elaborate a bit on your suggestion? How could I change the temperature of the generic thermostat since the thermostat uses hard coded values?

4

It doesn’t use hard coded values, the temperatures in its config are it’s initial states, they can be changed through an automation, check out the docs for the climate component, specifically climate.set_temperature.

5

Thanks, that actually makes sense, don’t know why I didn’t get that :slight_smile: Will try right away.

7

Hi,

Could tou share your code orsolution as template? I am currently facing the same challenge but as the answer in this conversation did not move me forward - a bit new to all of this…