LVI Thermosoft have released Zigbee controlled Electric Oil filled panels.
Is there anyway to integrate these into Home Assistant?
Thanks!
This is an excellent question. I am also interested in this radiator and asked their support. They confirmed that these new radiators use Zigbee 3.0 and create a Mesh network but they have no integration to HomeAssistant and did not say if any other “gateway” than their own can/will support them.
I am currently using Conbee II / deCONZ and hope there will be something eventually.
I’ve done in using ZHA
By using Z2M or what do you mean by done?
The panels control thermostats are found directly using ZHA.
So you mean ZHA (Zigbee Home Automation in HA) can control and monitor Yali D radiator?
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The Yali radiators work well with the ZHA integration, but then they will belong to the ZHA controlled zigbee mesh, and you lose the ability to control them via Purmo’s app/cloud service. I recently started working on a Python client for the Unisenza Plus cloud service for people who either don’t have or want to use zigbee directly: GitHub - jasujm/pyupgw: Python client for Unisenza Plus
My goal is to develop Home Assistant integration to the Unisenza Plus gateway/cloud service later, but it will take some time. Contributions are welcome.
Please note that the client is unofficial and not based on any API documentation. I tried to ask for any documentation Purmo (which I believe is the same group as LVI Thermosoft) might have wanted to share, but they didn’t provide any.
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yes that is correct
Cool. Happy to use it when it works. In the meantime I’ll keep controlling them directly. They join (and extend) my mesh 
Hi to everybody!
I am quite new with HA. I guess I can do basic things with it, but can you guys tell me how have you managed to pair your YALI D radiators to HA?
I have Conbee2 usb stick in my setup. (if that information is any usefull)
Hi bdmfckr,
For me, ZHA (Zigbee Home Automation - Home Assistant) worked out of the box. Conbee II is listed as a supported device, so I think you can just configure the integration as described in the documentation, and pair the radiators.
When ZHA is searching for devices, to initiate the pairing in the radiator, press down < and > until you enter the configuration menu, then choose rF to initialize the zigbee link. ZHA should then find it.
I’ve recently developed an integration for Unisenza Plus. If you use Yali radiators via the Unisenza Plus cloud service, you can integrate Home Assistant via my integration.
It only supports radiators at the moment. It has been quite stable in my testing, but I’d love to hear feedback from others willing to test it.
The easiest way to install would be via HACS: just add GitHub - jasujm/home-assistant-unisenza-plus: Home Assistant integration for Unisenza Plus as custom repository.
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Thanks for doing this. Are there any advantages of using this app vs directly controlling the radiators on the HA zigbee mesh? is there any way of doing both? That is add the Unisenza plus into the HA Zigbee mesh (rather that it creating it’s own mesh for the radiators)? Thanks!
The Yali radiators connect to Unisenza Plus cloud service via Unisenza Plus Gateway, which is a product sold separately. The choice between joining them to ZHA-controlled Zigbee mesh vs. Unisenza Plus is similar to how you can choose to control e.g. Philips Hue lights either via ZHA or the Hue bridge. By choosing the vendor’s gateway, you can use Home Assistant to control the devices via dashboards and automations, while having remote connection and proprietary features through the official app.
I wrote this integration because I already own the gateway and like the remote connectivity via the app. If you already have ZHA set up, and don’t own the gateway or need the remote connectivity, then there might not be as much value in my integration for you.
Zigbee devices can only belong to one mesh at a time. If you use ZHA, then that is the mesh your HA instance controls. If you use Unisenza Plus, then it’s the mesh controlled by the gateway.
@jasujm Is there any way to connect to the Unisenza Plus Gateway if you don’t have it registered in the cloud?
We’re currently having to use the app in Local Wifi Mode after having no luck registering the gateway to my account. My brother is disabled and it’s difficult to use the phone sometimes, even something via command line would be good.
@Kashinoda the local wifi mode is not supported, unfortunately. It would require analyzing the protocol, and I’m not sure if I have the time to do that.