Hive Heating via Zigbee2MQTT, many features do not work

Even with true/false, no joy. Could you tell me what firmware version you’re running? Mine could be old (potentially buggy?). And, which version of zigbee2mqtt? I’ve upgraded as a long shot to 1.27.2 but no dice.

Another questions… If you turn on the thermostat manually, what happens? Does it show up in z2m?

    "device": {
        "applicationVersion": 50,
        "dateCode": "20190618",
        "friendlyName": "x",
        "hardwareVersion": 1,
        "ieeeAddr": "x",
        "manufacturerID": 4153,
        "manufacturerName": "Computime",
        "model": "SLR2b",
        "networkAddress": 23208,
        "powerSource": "Mains (single phase)",
        "stackVersion": 2,
        "type": "Router",
        "zclVersion": 1
    }

OK, one disclaimer… I’m not running a thermostat, so literally just the relay on its own. I can’t see it being an issue within the docs.

Hi everyone
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first of all thanks to everyone so far for their suggestions. I’ve looked into the problem with the temperature jumping back to 1 degrees and it looks as though it’s because of the thermostat receiving invalid commands. Mainly HA publishing data that is incompatible with the remote.

I’ve created an alternative config to get round the problem to more closely match how the hive remote works. It’s here if anyone finds it useful

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HI, I haven’t checked @greeeny101’s solution yet, but I will try, but in the meantime I can start the Hive, but any duration I input resets to 65535. Is there anyway round this?

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Hi,

Thanks for the effort, but do you think it would be possible to write up some instructions? I genuinely don’t even know where to start with this. I am learning this all the hard way as I migrate to Zigbee2MQTT.

Thanks again!

Edit: I figured it out with some trial and error. I will write a short tutorial in future.

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Hi,
I’m having similar issues was wondering if you’d managed to write some instructions or had some tips?
Thanks

Fairly sure this is the most recent firmware.

I’m looking into this now myself, bit of a minefield with lots of different ideas / device.

Based on this thread simply being more recent I’ll try some of the ideas here.

This is a rough guide because I meant to do this sooner, but was busy and I can’t remember everything perfectly.

  1. Pair up your Hive stuff to Z2M and (for the sake of ease) name your thermostat (the one next to the boiler not the remote one) ‘heater’
  2. Add the hive.yaml to your config folder
  3. Add this to your config.yaml - mqtt: !include hive.yaml
  4. Add the code from this to your automations.yaml
  5. Add this to your config.yaml
  6. Copy the thermostat configs for your pages

I can’t remember if I missed anything, but that’s how its setup looking at mine. Also, those links are for the SLR2 same process for SLR1 just use those configs instead.

This is not an optimal layout for this. You’d ideally want to split your MQTT stuff out differently, but this gets the general gist across, which is where I was initially lost.

My overall recommendation is to move away from Hive because even with this very useful script, it’s still a bit finicky. I got some Drayton Wiser stuff and will be switching soon instead. But in the meantime its functioned well enough for me.

Also, just want to say Hive sucks for their e-waste hub scam. Absolute nerds.

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Thanks - it was the formatting of the main yaml file that threw me. Throws a lot of errors in VS Code so I assumed there was something else needed.

I’ll take a look at your instructions and report back.

What I found interesting is the zigbee payload messages include weekday information on mine.

Be interesting to see if there’s anything that can be done with that (I tried a few publish messages but they definitely don’t take hold).

When i copy in the config_input_number i seem to get loads of errors. Can anyone help?

I’m not sure if this is greeny’s setup, or a similar one I found. Seems to work for me. Plan to improve the boost setup at some stage if I can (I’d love for them to add a “boost” to their thermostat integration to be honest!).

It’s very much in progress haha.

configuration.yaml

mqtt: 
  !include_dir_merge_named hive/mqtt

#Load automations
automation ui: !include automations.yaml #UI designed Automations
automation hive_down: #Hive Automations
  !include hive/automation/Hive_Downstairs.yaml
automation hive_up: #Hive Automations
  !include hive/automation/Hive_Upstairs.yaml

#Load custom packages
homeassistant:
  packages: 
    !include_dir_merge_named hive/integrations
    !include_dir_named packages/

Created a folder called hive in config with the below subdirectories:

  • automation - contains config_automation yaml files, renamed as I have two.
  • integrations - will contain the config_input_number yaml files, but I’ve renamed it as I have two.
  • mqtt - contains config_mqtt file, as per above has been renamed.

I’m having issues with the multiple files / multiple stats right now FYI.

Hi @Burgess101 ,
I tried this but got nowhere… Do I need to do something with MQTT HVAC? The card I added to the dash didn’t do anything but allow a temperature to increase.

@alexcf did you ever get it working without a thermostat? I am struggling to get the relays to switch on and I’m beginning to wonder if the lack of thermostat is the reason.

I ended up having to pair everything back to Hive. The thermostat is the “thing” that kicks it on, so you might well need it. Super annoying if you want HA to control it. The only way I can see a way of doing it is disabling the schedules and having HA do “boosts” when it sees temp dropping. I need to do a proper overhaul!

Yes, you need both the receiver and the thermostat. Whilst you can ignore the thermostat (and use any temps Ensor you like), it is quite accurate and so is useful as such.

My method is to have the Hive App in ‘manual mode’ (in fact the app has been deleted) and everything is controlled via HA. To ensure this works, I have an automation that does everything including ensuing the mode is correct when HA restarts.

The following might help you. Note I have truncated sensor.hive_heating_target_temp as it is a long and not central to this point. The entire package is here if you are interested, but I have tinkered with it since to include a schedule setting that reacts to my house ‘waking up’ with a ‘pre-heat’ to warm the house before ‘waking up’).

input_select: #-----------------------------------------------------------------

  hive_heating_target_mode:
    name: Hive heating mode
    icon: mdi:radiator-disabled
    options:
      - "off"                     # Hive thermostat is in frost protect
      - "heat"                    # Hive thermostat is in manual control

template: #---------------------------------------------------------------------

  - sensor:
      # Mode as reported by HIVE thermostat: off, heat, auto (Hive schedule), emergency_heating (Hive boost)
      #         mum (SLR1c)     James SLR2c:
      # state:  climate.hive    climate.hive_heat
      - name: "Hive heating reported mode"
        unique_id: hive_heating_reported_mode
        state: "{{ states('climate.hive_heat') }}"

      - name: "Hive heating target temp"
        unique_id: hive_heating_target_temp
        device_class: temperature
        unit_of_measurement: °C
        [...]

automation:  #------------------------------------------------------------------

  # set mode and temp
  # Name of receiver is "Hive":
      # SLR1c: zigbee2mqtt/Hive/set
      # SLR2c: zigbee2mqtt/Hive/heat/set
      #     &: zigbee2mqtt/Hive/water/set 
  - alias: Hive heating
    id: "hive_heating"
    description: ''
    mode: queued
    initial_state: true                                     # ensure automation is on at startup
    trigger:
      - platform: template                                  # reset mode if out-of-sync
        value_template: "{{ states('sensor.hive_heating_reported_mode') != states('input_select.hive_heating_target_mode') }}"
      - platform: state
        entity_id: input_select.hive_heating_target_mode    # user sets sets new mode
      - platform: homeassistant
        event: start                                        # set correct mode on startup
      - platform: state
        entity_id: sensor.hive_heating_target_temp          # programme sets new temp
    action:
      - choose:
          - conditions:
              - condition: state
                entity_id: input_select.hive_heating_target_mode
                state: 'off'
            sequence:
              - service: mqtt.publish
                data:
                  topic: zigbee2mqtt/Hive/heat/set
                  payload: |-
                    {
                      "system_mode":"off",
                      "temperature_setpoint_hold":"0"
                    }
          - conditions:
              - condition: state
                entity_id: input_select.hive_heating_target_mode
                state: 'heat'
            sequence:
              - service: mqtt.publish
                data:
                  topic: zigbee2mqtt/Hive/heat/set
                  payload: |-
                    {
                      "system_mode":"heat",
                      "temperature_setpoint_hold":"1",
                      "occupied_heating_setpoint":"{{ states('sensor.hive_heating_target_temp') }}"
                    }
          - conditions:
              - condition: state
                entity_id: input_select.hive_heating_target_mode
                state: 'auto'
            sequence:
              - service: mqtt.publish
                data:
                  topic: zigbee2mqtt/Hive/heat/set
                  payload: |-
                    {
                      "system_mode":"auto",
                      "temperature_setpoint_hold":"1"
                    }
          - conditions:
              - condition: state
                entity_id: input_select.hive_heating_target_mode
                state: 'emergency_heating'
            sequence:
              - service: mqtt.publish
                data:
                  topic: zigbee2mqtt/Hive/heat/set
                  payload: |-
                    {
                      "system_mode":"emergency_heating",
                      "temperature_setpoint_hold":"1",
                      "temperature_setpoint_hold_duration":"{{ states('input_number.hive_heating_boost_time')|float *60 }}",
                      "occupied_heating_setpoint":"{{ states('sensor.hive_heating_reported_current_temp')|float + states('input_number.hive_heating_boost_temp')|float }}"
                    }

I can report greeny101 solution works, but I was using updated fix by

Please Note yaml file config_automation folder was throwing back errors because some brackets were not properly indented

I just ran it trough the https://www.yamllint.com/ to find them and fix them and everything worked after that

Hey all, just this morning as I browsing zigbee2mqtt for a something to use for smart heating I noticed my device listed.
I have managed to get both the heater and the remote showing in zigbee2mqtt, the remote won’t actually seem to connect back to the boiler just gets stuck in reconnecting mode.
I have tried everything related to greeny101 github and it does control the boiler and things do seem to set to heat but the running state never changed from idle?
Did anybody manage to have a solid fix for this?

yeah I have it working- did you use the instructions here?

I am using the SLR1, I do sort of have it working.
The thermostat remote doesn’t work (just shows contact customer services on the screen).
But I am able to turn the boiler on and off using a script, but the current temp which it shows in zigbee isn’t accurate (I don’t actually know where it’s pulling that temp from it doesn’t change).

So I am trying to make some scripts and automations to use a different temp sensor to allow me to turn the boiler on and off.

P.S what exact is auto mode?

“Auto” is when the Hive app/thermostat schedules are in control.