My boiler is quite old, not sure about the date because I found it installed when I bought the house.
As per the Remeha website, the R-Bus should automatically detect which kind of thermostat is connected (including OpenTherm).
Hi @tpacri,
this looks very good and I am planning to use this integration once I have switched to TRVs and here comes my question: what kind of hardware setup are you using?
Thanks,
Merc
Hi. I spied on my real thermostat messages using a SDR, then I created my own transmitter that communicates with my heating system using same on/off messages as the ral one, using a nodeMcu attached to a rf433 receiver/transmitter. My home assistant listens to temperature sensors in each room and senda on/off commands to my nodemcu transmitter through mqtt, which transmits through rf433 to my heating system. In this way, my heating system doesn’t need any modifications. I just turn of the real thermostat and use my HA setup to control the heating. I ise it for more than a year and works fine.
Then, on top of this i use automation to set target temperatures to each room based on my schedule: during night 20 C in bedrooms and 17C in rest of the house as we all are supposed to be at sleep, and during day, leaving and dining warmer and bedrooms colder as noone aleeps there. Ok, the script is more comex as its adjusted to my kids schedule (school, etc)
Thanks for the exhaustive reply. One information I was hoping for is missing. Which TRVs are you using? I still have to decide between homematic, tado… x???
Thanks again,
Merc
No TVRs yet :D.
I own Tado TRVs but I’m not really happy with them.
They are quite pricey and need their own hub + cloud.
Also they have some quirks which make them not the ideal candidate for integration with HA. I once wrote a topic about these: link.
On the other hand they are easy to install and come with a lot of adaptor brackets, so its kind of guaranteed to work.
My advise would be to go with a Zigbee or Z-wave (whichever you use) TRV.
I cannot recommend a particular type as I don’t have experiences with any, but there are many topics around here.
Hi all,
has anybody tried to use @tpacri multi zone thermostate together with the TOON Smart Thermostate integration?
I have one of those (and the Rooted Toon integration in HA) and before starting to combine these two things (and possibly messing things up massively) I just wanted to check if anybody had done this before, successfully.
Thanks,
Merc
Hi @tpacri,
just wondered whether you had seen my previous post and whether you would have an idea how to combine your nice multi zone integration with this one (GitHub - cyberjunky/home-assistant-toon_climate: This component provides a climate device for rooted Toon thermostats.) which is a standard single zone climate integration for a room thermostat called TOON, which is quite common in the Netherlands and Belgium.
I looked into both scripts and saw that you are using a “heater” entitiy. I assume this is the switch that turns the CV on and off.
in the TOON integration I could not find exactly this approach but since it is also using the HVAC components I assume it must be very similar, only that the initialization or definition of this heater is somewhat different.
I am not a programmer and not too familiar with the climate integration either so I first wanted to ask if you (or anybody else) would see a quick way to combine these two integrations?
Thanks, happy new year and kind regards,
Merc
You could create a switch or input_boolean and set it up with the multi zone integration from tpacri. Use an automation to set your toon climate device to heat (to a setpoint higher than current temperature) when the switch is on, and vice versa.
My setup works similar.
Hi @tpacri ,
one more simple question.
I have installed your multi room solution to see what it does (and hopefully to adjust it to my setup). What strikes me is that I am not seeing these sliders to control the individual rooms. Should they show up automatically or is something else required to get those?
Thanks and regards,
Merc
Hi, the sliders are input_numbers that youhave to define yourself in configuration.yaml. Here are mine:
input_number:
min_ambiental_temperature:
name: Min ambiental temperature
initial: 21
min: 14
max: 25
step: 0.1
min_dining_temperature:
name: Min dining temperature
initial: 20
min: 14
max: 25
step: 0.1
min_kitchen_temperature:
name: Min kitchen temperature
initial: 20
min: 14
max: 25
step: 0.1
min_fabians_bedroom_temperature:
name: Min Fabian's bedroom temperature
initial: 20
min: 14
max: 25
step: 0.1
min_small_bedroom_temperature:
name: Min small bedroom temperature
initial: 18
min: 14
max: 25
step: 0.1
min_ioanas_bedroom_temperature:
name: Min Ioana's bedroom temperature
initial: 21
min: 14
max: 25
step: 0.1
Hi, sorry for the delayed answer.
I have no idea how would that work.
My thermostat needs as input the switch to turn on/off the heater and (sensors and target temperature) pairs. Sensors will give it the reading of the temperature in a room, and the target temperature is usually an input_number that you will bind to a slider in GUI. From there you will set the desired temperature in that room. My thermostat will start/stop the heater switch in order to adjust room temperatures according to the value you set through the input_number (aka target temperature).
The “heater” can be any kind of switch, so yes, you could try to put here the switch from another thermostat. But the outcome of all these it really depends on how you use/combine them all together
Hi,
Thanks a lot for your reply. I will give it a try.
Kind regards,
Merc
To whom it may concern.
I made a replacement for a script I made in appdaemon which I had running before:
The replacement is an HA integration which allows to set up a link between the zone entities (TRVs) etc. to the thermostat entity.
It’s a bit different compared to the version from Tipa, mostly since I wanted to use my existing thermostat rather than create a new thermostat entity, so it works more like an automation.
Anyone who thinks this is could be useful for them, feel free to check it out and use it (but at your own risk):
If you have troubles or miss things, please use the github issues section to discuss them.
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There is a very nice solution on zone heating/ heatdemand avaiable for ioBroker.
heatdemand-control
perhaps this is adaptable to HA …
Hello Niel,
I have updated to version 1.01 but I am still having problems.
I have tried to let you know through github several times but I never got a reply.
Can you help us address this problem please ?
Guess I followed the installation step but the „zoned…“ on add integration menu is missing.
Cache of chrome were deleted.
HA > settings > devices&services > add integration
Any hint what I do wrong, thanks.
could you please help me in how you installed the heating automamtion? I am not able to find the integration after copying the files to the dedicated folder …
After installing the component in the custom_components folder (HACS would do this for you), you need to restart HA and add it via the devices&services page.
If it doesn’t show up in the list, clear the browser cache.