Hi,
I try to set up my climate automation using the better thermostat integration. This integration gives me the following entity:
On my Dashboard I have two controls for up and down (blue and red button) which are input_numbers created as a helper.
I am looking for a way in Node Red to increase / decrease the “temperature” attribute of the entity by 0,5°C with each click on a button.
I hope you can help me.
Thanks.
In the settings of the input number there is a step size value. This is how much the number will increase/decrease. You can use a call service to either increment or decrement the number.
I know, but I need to increase / decrease a climate entity which does provide increment / decrement.
So my other idea was to increment / decrement another “temperature helper” which I then set equal to the climate entity via set temperature = temperature helper. I assume this works with a function node but I couldn’t figure out how.
Any ideas?
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I think I am pretty close now. The only thing I don’t get to work is to set the target temperature using msg.payload in the last step. The debug node gives me the target temperature of the helper and I need to use this message as the target temperature of the climate entity.
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When a number has quotes, it’s a string. To use it for climate it needs to be in the form of a number. Inside the HA nodes the prefix msg is not required nor recommended. So you would use "temperature": $number(payload) to convert from a string to a number.
It works 
. Thank you 
.