I just upgraded from 0.93 to 0.98 and it seems Radio Thermostat no longer supports the away_temperature_heat and cool settings. I’m assuming this means it also no longer supports being set to away mode? Or does it now support setting the thermostat to it’s own away mode somehow? I’ve been using a NodeRed flow to change the Home Assistant setting to away mode, but that won’t work now I don’t think as I’m getting API errors when I try to call it and I don’t see an away_mode attribute on the climate sensor.
There were changes to the Climate entity in 0.96, so that’s certainly a possible cause. Were you using climate.set_away_mode or climate.set_hold_mode? If so, try using climate.set_preset_mode with a value of 'away'.
Might want to post your NodeRed flow here too. I’m not familiar with NR, but anyone who is would be able to help you if the above doesn’t solve the problem.
Nope, preset mode did not work.
Maybe try other values like eco. Otherwise, while not ideal, you could create an automation for both system modes (heat, cool) that changes the setpoint to whatever you would use for away. This could at least help until a better solution is found.
Somebody else might have a better solution, but I’m not familiar with the Radio Thermostat climate platform in particular, so I’m offering advice based on my own experience with the Climate platform.
Thanks, the fun of putting off updates is fixing a lot of things all at once 
For now I may just disable it and let it run on a “dumb” schedule.
Yep, that’s true. Sorry I couldn’t help.
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Just following up on this as I have recently updated to the latest version with the Climate changes. Does anybody know if the Radiotherm integration has been updated to accommodate away modes under the new climate model? The release notes for 0.99 mention some changes, but I don’t see anything about away mode or the new set_preset_mode function.
Afraid I am not aware of anything. I changed mine back to just running in schedule mode and haven’t messed with it. Home Assistant is just acting as a way to view the current settings and change them on the fly, no automation.
In theory, with a little tinkering, you could use the REST API and a REST switch in Home Assistant to turn on and off away mode for the actual thermostat. I’ve thought of doing that, just never got around to it. I had worked that out for the backlight/nightlight on mine, but I never got past tinkering with that in NodeRed to put it into Home Assistant, if it would even work.
Images below are for the backlight. Similar should work for the built in away mode on the thermostat. Also included the snip from API docs for what I believe Radio Thermostat calls away mode. I may be wrong on that though.
I missed your second post the other day… thank you for this! Is that screenshot NodeRed? I’ve seen a lot about it but haven’t installed it.
Yes, sorry, I did not see this until today. I know it’s like a month late. That is NodeRed, it’s the best way to do flows and automation in my opinion. I can do stuff much faster in NodeRed than using Home Assistant YAML automations.