The advanatage air integration has the option to define a “MYZONE”. Setting this updates the core set point I think.
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@Brett_Adams Loving the integration with my eZone but am experiencing a strange issue with turning it on and off via HomeKit. If I turn use the AC tile in HomeKit and move it from off to cool it turns on as expected, if I do the same and move it from cool to off it turns off as expected. Same if I ask Siri to turn it on or off. The strange part is if I store this on or off in a scene it won’t turn it on or off. Any ideas why this might be happening? I’m trying to automate turning it off in my leave home scene but the second I add it to a scene it stops working and the only way to turn it off is manually or to ask Siri.
Yeah Andy I have no idea. I assume the HomeKit scenes can control other Home Assistant things correctly?
@Brett_Adams Everything working as expected, thanks so much for your contribution.
Question for you, Myplace have introduced “myauto”. Any idea how to implement this as an option in the Operations section?
I believe this is only available for systems that have thermostats for each zone.
Cheers
If you private message me the output of http://<ip_address>:2025/getSystemData with the setting on and off, I’ll add a switch entity or similar.
Been using this integration for a while now, works really well so shout out to @Brett_Adams
Just seeing if anyone out there has the ezone system without RF sensors and has been able to use external temp sensors to mimic Advantage Air’s own temp sensor logic to autmatically control temperatures in each zone using the dampers?
I.e. assign an external temperature sensor (e.g. Xiaomi) to each zone, have temperature selectors for each zone (instead of controlled covers), and then tie it to the Advanage Air system through some scripting?
I’ve got some basic automations setting covers or ac on/off overnight, but these are triggers for temp ranges and are not very “smart” for granular zone control. Would be great to be able to set zone temps through a card and have the dampers do all the work.
Thanks for the kind words @Tockers.
So I also have an e-zone system without temperature sensors and contacted Advantage Air to see if their DIY sensor install would work on my system, but apparently I would need an upgrade eZone control box first, which I was quoted $685, and then $74 for each sensor/zone. At $1128, I wanted to try DIY it first.
So using a bunch of ESPHome devices I already had with temp sensors, I couldn’t figure out a good solution using Automations, so setup NodeRed. My logic is as such:
- Subscribe to every entity with temperature in its name
- Get the climate entity state but only if its cool or heat
- Split the path for each zone cover to temperature mapping
- Check if that specific zone cover entity is open
- Run a javascript code block to calculate the temperature difference between what is set and what is recorded. If its under, open the cover by 5% per 1°C, if its over close it by 5% per 1°C
This system isn’t perfect, but it works well enough to keep my rooms from overheating/overcooling due to their distance from the air return.
msg.temp_prev = msg.data.old_state.state
msg.temp_curr = msg.data.new_state.state
msg.delta = msg.payload - msg.climate.attributes.temperature
msg.change = msg.delta * 5
if(msg.mode=="heat"){
msg.change = -msg.change
}
msg.position = Math.round(msg.cover.attributes.current_position + msg.change)
msg.position = Math.min(Math.max(msg.position,5),100)
msg.data = {"entity_id": msg.cover.entity_id, "position": msg.position}
return msg;
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Awesome, thanks again @Brett_Adams, time to learn Node-RED 
Are you using this to set temps via a HA climate card? Or just to modulate temperatures once they are where you want them?
So I just ensure the temperature in the room is what I set my climate entity to. I probably could use input numbers to have a per room target temp and try fully replicate the MyAir/MyZone type automation.
Set up some input numbers and split out the switching, now have zone-based temp inputs that will regulate the ducting dampers and some entity buttons to open/close zones as needed. Thanks for the help @Brett_Adams!
(If i was better at CSS/styling, the temp selectors card would be more compact/less dead space!)
I am hoping to get a MyAir system added to my ducted system in the next month or so… thanks to this thread for giving me confidence with the HA integration - Thanks @Brett_Adams for your work!
I am just deciding which system to get.
@Tockers would you recommend the ezone system? I am also keen to use 3rd party temp sensors. Your card looks like what I am after, does the middle section let you turn zones on/off?
Or does it just tell you when the zone it open/closed based on your temp inputs?
Do you have the android tablet from myAir? Do you use it for HA dashboard also?
I would definitely recommend getting temperature sensors in every zone. You probably don’t need the extra MyAir smart features because you could replicate them in home assistant.
Thanks, so go 3rd party sensors instead of MyAir sensors?
Yes, have found the ezone system to be really good. My house struggles a bit in the common zone (hallway) as it is leaky and uninsulated but otherwise the ezone system itself works really well. As @Brett_Adams has mentioned, HA can be configured to save you the $$$ you would otherwise spend on ezone temp sensors if you wanted to use cheaper/3rd party sensors. But all-in-one ezone with integrated individual zone temp sets also has its benefits for ease of use.
Yes that middle section of my card is set to toggle zones on or off and show what is open/closed, then the NodeRed config works with the temperature input settings to regulate the zone dampers building on @Brett_Adams hard work.
I have the ezone tablet mounted in the hallway and I have HA, solar monitoring, ezone, etc. installed on it but I rarely use it. I have HA on my mobile and laptop which are generally always on hand, and at some stage I’ll get around to having a permanent tablet setup in the living area.
Awesome! Thanks for that.
I am all for ease of use but would also like to have the current temperature of each zone available in HA. If I go with the all-in-one ezone can I get the current temps of each zone?
It would just be handy for window covering automations.
The myAir tech who came out said he had a customer in Brisbane somewhere who had integrated it into HA and could get temperature of each zone along with damper position %.
Thoughts?
I believe that the Advantage Air integration exposes the zone temps and dampers if you bought the system with them. From the integration page:
SENSOR
The integration will create sensor entities for a variety of aspects:
- The air filter sensor shows if it needs to be replaced.
- Two sensor entities will be created for the ‘time to on’ and ‘time to off’ features. Use the
advantage_air.set_time_toservice to change these.- Each zone that is temperature-controlled will have a sensor to show the temperature (disabled by default), and how open the damper is.
- Each zone with a wireless temperature or motion sensor will have a sensor that reports its wireless RSSI.
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Great! Do you know if these entities would be available even when the A/C unit is off?
Covers are, so assume temps would be too. Can not see why they wouldn’t be - the system is always in communication with HA.
Sounds pretty similar to my Honeywell Evohome 12 zone system, though mine is radiator based rather than forced air. It does have individual set points and on/off per zone/room, global on/off, only thing it doesn’t have is the master zone.
I personally don’t see any problem with having all the individual thermostats for each room (how the evohome integration works), and then adding one sensor and some service calls for the global on/off and myzone settings… Evohome also has a global thermostat and some service calls to set the more global settings like home/away mode, guest mode, etc.
Anyway, I’d say go look at the evohome integration for inspiration, it does pretty much everyhing you are asking for.