Generic Thermostat to support both heating and cooling simultaneously

[danps]

It is quite limiting to have a generic thermostat that can only do cooling or heating, but not both at the same time.
Some time ago @shandoosheri created a custom component to address this fairly simply, but recently this has stopped working.
Details of the custom component, and a vision of how this feature should work are at…

Heat Cool Generic thermostat

I managed to modify the generic thermostat code to work in Cool, Heat mode in the same instance. I thought it would help. Example configuration: climate: - platform: thermostat name: Thermostat heater: switch.heater cooler: switch.ac target_sensor: sensor.living_room_sensor min_temp: 60 max_temp: 85 target_temp: 70 ac_mode: False away_temp: 70 initial_operation_mode: “off” hot_tolerance: 0.5 cold_tolerance: 0.5 min_cycle_duration: minutes: 2 thermostat.py

This feature request is to implement this functionality into the core HA generic thermostat, essentially making it more generic

[gwpt (Guy Taylor)]

hi @danps, do you know if this ever happened?

[danps]

I use this now - https://github.com/zacs/ha-dualmodegeneric
It works very well.

[gwpt (Guy Taylor)]

Great, thanks