I made a crappy Nest Thermostat integration that will work as a stopgap until alternatives come out

denveronly · November 15, 2020, 10:38am

Great manual, ill try to follow it up.
If you could make a video of it, it would be a hit

Townsmcp · November 15, 2020, 11:36am

Lol I’ve never done a video. Something to think about.
I did reach out to the thread op to request he pins my post to his first post but no response. It would certainly help people stumbling across the post.

denveronly · November 15, 2020, 11:50am

your manual helped me out. it was a very complicated if i did not have your manual. All worked fine except 1 thermostat of 4. it is seen in nest app, google asked if i should add it . but it didnt appear in HA. I had problems with in using badnest integration.

Townsmcp · November 15, 2020, 12:08pm

I was using baddest for a while (and still have to use it on homebridge) with 2 thermostats. This new integration seems to have both thermostats and Hello and Home Hub Max cams. Obviously, not everything works fully yet for thermostats and cams but it is good progress so far. Looking forward to a finished product - devs are doing a great job.

As a suggestion, did you remove Badnest from HA and reboot before adding the new integration? And are you on 0.118.0b0 onwards?

denveronly · November 15, 2020, 12:22pm

Btw, i have these three thermostats as devices, but i dont have them as entities like climate.bedroom, am i missing something?
i did remove badnest and all entities it had

my HA version is 0.117.6 i dont have any new available in supervisor

its strange, beacuse i get 3 devices and 6 entities (two sensors on each) no climate
and also no hub max, no climate.
wtf

Townsmcp · November 15, 2020, 12:29pm

Going up to 0.118 beta opens up so much more of the integration.

Also, I found that I had to go to Entities and remove each Bad Nest entity

It is however a beta so best to backup first. To be in the beta, go to Supervisor - System and enable beta

denveronly · November 15, 2020, 12:36pm

Oh great, i didnt know that! beta 0.118
now i have 4 entities (3 thermostats, 1 nest hub max) and 10 entities, climate entitites are visible to. wooohoo

but… 1 thermostat is still not visible that i have in nest app. should i reinstall it in the app maybe?

Nath · November 15, 2020, 12:36pm

Because Nest integration in 0.117.x doesn’t support thermostats (climate) yet. Read the release notes…

Should work in 0.118, if i’m not mistaken.

Townsmcp · November 15, 2020, 12:53pm

Might be worth a shot doing a reinstall of it all to get the 4th thermostat. I would say remove config, integration, each entity, reboot ha and try it all again.
Also, is that missing thermostat at the same home as the other 3?

maxdis · November 18, 2020, 10:03am

Google-Nest Offical Device Access Console Finally Released!

nest:
  client_id: xxx.apps.googleusercontent.com
  client_secret: xxx
  project_id: xxx-xxx-xxx-xxx-xxx
  subscriber_id:  %SEE POINT N BELOW%

James,

You’re the man! Thansk a lot for this manual, works like a charm!

Townsmcp · November 18, 2020, 11:35am

You’re welcome. Im pleased it helped

krock · November 19, 2020, 5:47pm

Ugh - the new official google API has humidity as a ‘read only’ item… so, I may be stuck with badnest to automate humidity settings unless that changes.

rofspark · November 20, 2020, 5:46am

James, I have seeing exactly the same thing as ‘denveronly’. I have two thermostats, in the same house, linked to the same account. Can control both in Nest app. Google asks for permission for both when setting up native Nest integration but HA shows up only one of them. I even took the offending thermostat off the account, did a full reset, added it back, removed Nest integration in HA and added it back again. No dice though. HA just doesn’t see it.

Do not know what to try next. Any suggestions?

Thanks for your help in advance.

cdrom1028 · November 21, 2020, 7:48pm

ok, I am on 0.118.2 and the native Integration is working fine however I do not see the remote sensors… any ideas?

jcalhoon1973 · November 23, 2020, 1:39pm

Can you give simple instructions to get nest_refresh for configuration? thats the only thing I can’t figure out.

dbecknel · November 23, 2020, 3:58pm

Jim,
I highly recommend using the integration now that it is live and working. The set up is MUCH easier and the updates are in real time versus my approach of e very 20 seconds or so. Plus, you don’t have to setup AppDaemon. I did it as a stop gap measure and to learn, but the development of the integration was quicker than I anticipated.

To answer your question though, nest_refresh is the refresh token that you get from Google once you follow all the step and issue various “cURL” commands. There returned data in the step below yields the refresh token. Again, note the integration is FAR easier to setup.

chilman4081 · November 28, 2020, 7:03am

I changed to the Official Device Access setup… looks like correctly but only the sensors show up in HA, I can’t control the thermostat…

Townsmcp · November 28, 2020, 10:39am

@chilman4081 HA needs to be on 0.118.0 or higher to get the thermostat and cameras

chilman4081 · November 28, 2020, 5:56pm

Thank you, you are right.

wideboys182 · December 4, 2020, 8:42pm

Hi everyone a newbie here to Home Assistant. I have followed the guidance to link my Nest Thermostat to HA but have hit a brick wall. I seem to be getting the below, has anyone else seen this?

I have registered for Device Access, the device is active on my Google account, I have setup the Google Cloud Platform and create a project so have all my IDs etc. I seem to get the above when I go to link my account. Have I missed something?