Hi,
I have 3 sensors (living_room, bed_room, bath_room) and one switch (heatter_switch). I want to select whatever sensor I want to maintain the temperature for that room. I have played with climate but it is hard for me to make it work. Please, one example will be greate. Thank you.
I assume you mean the Generic Thermostat, yes?
What I would do is to create an Input Select with options for the three rooms. Then Iād create a Template Sensor that uses the value from the sensor selected by the input_select
. And then Iād use that template sensor for generic thermostatās target_sensor
.
If you need a concrete example, let me know.
Thank you pnbrucker! It works great but I have one problem. Now I have Generic Thermostat and Input Select in different places on my page. How I can group them toghether? I have all configuration split into many files and folders (not in a single file ). Maybe group.yaml will do the trick.
Not exactly sure what you mean. Are you asking how to place the entities in the frontend (i.e, the UI)? Or are you talking about where to put the configuration items in your YAML files? Assuming the latter, Iād suggest putting them in a package. I almost exclusively use packages.
Yes, I try to make one entity from Generic Thermostat and Input Select. I will try with package to see what I can do.
Thank you for your help!
I have a problem with putting all into packages. This is what I made:
I have created a āpackagesā folder then create a thermostat.yaml file with that content:
input-select:
thermostat_target:
name: "ALEGE CAMERA DE INCALZIT"
options:
- "Termostat Salon"
- "Termostat baie"
- "Termostat Copii"
initial: "Termostat baie"
sensor:
- sensors:
temperature_target:
unit_of_measurement: "Ā°C"
value_template: >
{% if is_state("input_select.thermostat_target", "Termostat Salon") %}
{{ states("sensor.salon_temp") }}
{% elif is_state("input_select.thermostat_target", "Termostat baie") %}
{{ states("sensor.baie") }}
{% elif is_state("input_select.thermostat_target", "Termostat Copii") %}
{{ states("sensor.camera_copii") }}
{% endif %}
entity_id:
- input_select.thermostat_target
- sensor.salon_temp
- sensor.baie
- sensor.camera_copii
climate:
- platform: generic_thermostat
name: Seteaza Temperatura Dorita
heater: switch.termostat_mijloc
target_sensor: sensor.temperature_target
min_temp: 15
max_temp: 30
target_temp: 25
hot_tolerance: 0.2
min_cycle_duration:
seconds: 5
In configuration.yaml I have added:
āpackages: !include_dir_named packagesā line.
When I try to validate the configuration, it ends with this error:
" Configuration invalid
Component error: packages - Integration āpackagesā not found."
I am confused. What is wrong?
packages
must be under homeassistant
.
homeassistant:
packages: !include_dir_named packages
Also, your template sensor config is wrong. Youāre missing platform: template
and the rest needs to be indented more.
sensor:
- platform: template
sensors:
temperature_target:
unit_of_measurement: "Ā°C"
value_template: >
...
what room if you have sensors in every room and only one heater?
If you have 3 sensors in different rooms and one heater that heats them all, I use a different approach:
I used to combine the readings via Min Sensor so the temperature in every room should be not less than a certain value. The problem with it is Min Sensor - even if all your sensors die, itāll show the last numeric value.
So I ended up creating a custom multisource sensor (a hybrid of min sensor with a template sensor) which does the same but becomes unknown
when all its sources become unknown
(it can be done using template sensor, but involves much more effort/entities and does not offer similar flexibility). As a bonus, I added an option to switch sources on/off via input_boolean
s so at any time I can do it manually or via automation.