Problem with climate.eq3btsmart

[Juergen]

16-11-13 23:12:28 homeassistant.bootstrap: Not initializing climate.eq3btsmart because could not ins
tall dependency bluepy_devices==0.2.0

Is what I do get im my logifle. Not quite sure what it does mean.

[ronvl (Ron)]

Hi Juergen

There are various problems with this device and one is that bluepy doesn’t install automatically you will have to do this manually.

However when you went through all the effort of getting it recognized then there as still some issues with the component that will prevent you from using it.

see:

EQ3 Bluetooth Smart Thermostats - buggy?

I wonder what the experiences are from others with these Thermostats. I have bought a couple as I didn’t want to go the zwave route but I’m not quite happy with the way the HASS component seems to work. First of all the connection setup is a bit of a pain as only one device can have a BT connection with the thermostat and the BT stack automatically connects after a restart so you need to disconnect this before starting HASS otherwise it doesn’t find them. Then I have noticed that the eq3btsmar…

[Juergen]

Thanks for the feedback. Is there any device you can recommend for the usage with Home Assistant?

[ronvl (Ron)]

Nope I bought these as well to get my first experience as I thought they covered my needs… I found nothing else worth the money… but that is my personal view…
You can always try to persuade @DavidLP to do the rewrite… hopefully he finds some time to do this before the end of the winter