Lovelace Thermostat card but no thermostat

Hi all.t

After the release with Lovelace as the default I started to play with it. I noticed the Thermostat card that I woul dlike to use but I dont have a thermostat. My heaters are controlled by using Node-Red.

Is there a way I can have a dummy value in HA that I can point the thermostat card to representing the setpoint. I then can read it from Node-Red?

Ideas anyone

It supports only a climate device entity; if you want to write a component that polls and sets temperature through node red, I cant see why that wouldnt work.

Well, the generic thermostat just uses a switch and a sensor. So as long as you have a temperature somewhere and a switch that Node can read you should be fine.