Making a Custom Thermostat card

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Hey I am trying to make a custom thermostat card to control my AC unit thats on a smart switch, and use my phillips hue motion sensor that has a temp sensor in it and I can see the readings in HA.

What am I doing wrong here? Its saying Configuration errors detected:

  • No type provided.

I also provided a screenshot below
‘’’
climate:

  • platform: generic_thermostat
    name: Air Conditioning
    heater: switch.bedroom_air_conditioner
    target_sensor: sensor.hue_motion_sensor_1_temperature
    min_temp: 15
    max_temp: 21
    ac_mode: true
    target_temp: 17
    cold_tolerance: 0.3
    hot_tolerance: 0
    min_cycle_duration:
    seconds: 5
    keep_alive:
    minutes: 3
    initial_hvac_mode: “off”
    away_temp: 16
    precision: 0.1’
    ‘’’

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You should be putting that into your config.yaml file not into a card.

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Even when it says this?

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So I put that in the config file and rebooted and now what do I do? See the screenshot

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Add a thermostat card to your Lovelace and point it to climate.air_conditioning

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Please stop posting photos of text.

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Sorry I am new here didn’t know that was against the rules

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so now that worked thank you so much, what would I put in to make the values be higher then 21 Celsius ?

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Change the max_temp that you set to 21 in the code in your first post.

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Do you know much about the dual temp card?

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Do you mean being able to set an upper and lower temp trigger?

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Yes like for example, I have a infrared heater on a smart plug and my window ac on another, with a temp sensor. I wanna be able to add the auto feature as well

This is what I have so far but its missing any auto function

- platform: dualmode_generic
    name: Bedroom Thermostat
    heater: switch.bedroom_heater
    cooler: switch.bedroom_air_conditioner
    target_sensor: sensor.hue_motion_sensor_1_temperature
    reverse_cycle: true
    min_temp: 15
    max_temp: 28
    target_temp: 21.5
    cold_tolerance: 0.3
    hot_tolerance: 0
    min_cycle_duration:
      seconds: 5
    keep_alive:
      minutes: 3
    initial_hvac_mode: "off"
    away_temp: 16
    precision: 0.1
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Hi Justin. If you format code blocks correctly it will be much easier for the community to read them and chances that you’ll get a reply will rise.

After pasing code blocks into your message(s) just highlight them and click the </> - icon above the editing window. This way correct and easy readable code blocks will happen automagically :wink:

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thank you I edited my post I had no clue I could do that its way easier to read

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Much better to read and to understand :+1:t4:

Regarding your project take a look here.
Although it is not directly related it will give you a good understanding how thermostats work with HA including how to create lovelace cards.

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yeah no I know how to set those up its the merging it into one like this one, I currently have them both merged into one just no auto option to automatically pick between heat and cool, I have todo it myself

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Since you are not using ZWave thermostats why don’t simply install and use enriqg9 / dual-thermostat card? It looks well enough documented thus it should be useful for your project. Regarding the EOL-announcement note this comment.

Edit: Well, you are using this already. I just read your post over there.
Edit2: But again: So hard to read. Maybe you want to format it correctly mirroring what you have so far inside your raw config with Lovelace?

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So this is direct copy and paste from my raw

resources:
  '-type': js
  url: /local/dual-thermostat
views:
  - title: Main Bedroom Controls
    path: main-bedroom-controls
    panel: false
    badges: []
    cards:
      - type: thermostat
        entity: climate.bedroom_thermostat
      - type: horizontal-stack
        cards:
          - type: light
            entity: light.top_lamp_bulb
          - type: light
            entity: light.bottom_lamp_bulb
          - type: light
            entity: light.bedroom_led_strip
          - type: light
            entity: light.bedroom
            name: Bedroom Lights (Master)
      - type: weather-forecast
        entity: weather.home
        secondary_info_attribute: wind_speed
  - title: Cameras
    path: cameras
    badges: []
    cards: []
  - title: Room Temperatures
    path: room-temp
    panel: false
    badges: []
    cards:
      - type: sensor
        entity: sensor.hue_motion_sensor_1_temperature
        graph: line
        name: Bedroom Temp
      - type: sensor
        entity: sensor.hue_motion_sensor_1_light_level
        graph: line
        name: Bedroom Light Level
  - title: Switches
    path: switches
    panel: false
    badges: []
    cards: []
  - title: Media
    path: media
    badges: []
    cards: []
  - title: Keegans Room
    path: keegans-room
    panel: false
    badges: []
    cards: []
  - title: Life360 Locations
    path: life360-locations
    badges: []
    cards:
      - type: entities
        entities:
          - entity: device_tracker.life360_darien_ross
          - entity: device_tracker.life360_alysha
          - entity: device_tracker.life360_jeremy_falls
          - entity: device_tracker.life360_justin_m
          - entity: device_tracker.life360_ravine
          - entity: device_tracker.life360_tracy_ross
        state_color: true
title: Our Bedroom Controls
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Can I set the thermostat Heater or Cooler as an Action like a script?

I have a Google / Alexa connected Aprilaire thermostat and it can take commands to set certain Temp value or Mode through Alexa / Google assistant SDK.

Or have a custom Slider UI which will pass the slider value to the script in order to trigger Hey Google, set the thermostat to {$value_passed}
& subsequently create 3 - 4 buttons in order to trigger Fan, Heat Cool and Humidifier , Air Cleaning modes?

I’m getting the home temperature using Alexa Echos placed in different rooms for an average house temperature.