How to incorporate radiothermostat CT-50

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Just installed HA on a VirtualBox on home network. This was specifically to save my network of (6) CT-50 RadioThermostat units, since they are abandoning the service in May 2023.

I would also like someday to roll in to HA the rest of my home network, which is all Raspberry PI units (7) scattered around the property controlling and monitoring doors/windows/switches, etc. They are all MQTT-based, so I’d assume incorporating these would be straightforward.

For now I would be happy just to understand how to manage HA to the point where one CT-50 works. I found this article:

and it seems simple enough; just edit configuration.yaml and reboot. I did exactly that, and on the reboot I got a notification that HA did not like the update, and told me to remove it.

I’m one good YouTube video away from getting this working; can anyone point me in the right direction?

thanks

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Have you had any luck? I’ve got my Radio Thermostat CT50 setup with HA, but can’t figure out how to recreate the features that the (now defunct) app supported, such as:

  • Updating the schedule
  • Setting away temp, and enabling/disabling away based on tracking devices

Ok, that’s basically it… I feel like I could make automations for the away part, except that I couldn’t find an away toggle on the device, like I read generally exists on climate devices (I think normally done via service CLIMATE.SET_PRESET_MODE – I just don’t see that option).

Please share any experience you’ve had with this device. Thanks!