So when I launch the app, it just takes me to my Main Zone (I’ve always wondered what the house screen grabs were that were being posted in this thread)
When I hit the Zone button, it cycles through my four zones (you can see this towards the end of the gif).
You can then see me turn the temp down in the theatre room, and once it goes below 8 degress- it moves to off.
For your MTSP setup you can remove the zone switches (ie. set zoneType to "N") as they are not applicable.
The plugin currently only allows temperatures between 8 and 30 degrees. What I could do is allow between 0 and 30 so you can turn off a zone in the same way as the app/controller. Note that the Heater Cooler accessories will still be lit (ie. not greyed out) as that represents the on/off status of the whole Brivis system not the individual zones.
For the time being you can just set the temp to 8 via the plugin. This will essentially turn it off unless the temp drops below 8 in your Theatre zone.
Version 3.3.7 of the plugin has been released. It contains the following changes:
Add “Boot Module” option
Allow setting temperature to zero
Update dependencies, one of which had a high severity vulnerability
The reason for the new “Boot Module” option is to mitigate intermittent disconnections when the plugin has be running for many days. The module will normally reboot itself once a day but because the plugin holds a connection to it the module doesn’t get a chance to reboot. This new option in the plugin’s settings will force a reboot at a specified time of day.
The plugin will now also allow setting the temperature to zero. Any temperature below 8 degrees will be set to zero. This is useful for Multi Set Point setups where the zones can’t be turned off via a switch like Single Set Point setups can.
@SJM, please let me know if that fixes the issue you were having.
Hi @Mantorok. The latest HA update has made the entities become unavailable intermittently. Logs aren’t saying much and not sure how to change log level in this instance. Running homebridge integration into HA. Let me know what else I can do to help.
I’ve the same set up as yours - Homebridge to HA. Probably an HA issue. I’d the same problem after core update and reverted to HA core 2021.6.6 and that fixed the issue. For now I wont update HA until I can figure out what is going on.
Also, there are few issues raised in the 2021.7.0 thread about Homekit integration instability.
I’ve released version 3.3.8 of the plugin. It just fixes a minor issue with the pushover notifications that occur when the WiFi module is rebooting. I doubt it will fix the HB integration into HA issues but it sounds like that is a problem with HA not the plugin
I have since moved to 2021.7.3 HA core and everything is back to normal. I’ve also updated to plugin version 3.3.8 and that version is working fine too.
I’ve been following this thread for some time. I’m getting the Brivis wifi module soon.
I don’t use HomeKit at all but installing an instance of Hosmebridge and then using mqtt to integrate into HA isn’t a bad idea.
Interested in everyone’s real world experience with this plugin? My HA setup is rock solid and passes the wife test easily - don’t want to add instability.
Once you have the HVAC interfaces with HA, your wife won’t need to TOUCH the thing.
I’ve got mine running via the MQTT to a homebridge docker container running on my R-Pi4 HASS install.
Between that and Node-Red, I’ve got my HVAC:
turning on when we come home
turning off when we go out
turning on at 6am when we’re home
turning off at midnight
switching to a/c if the temp goes above 25c
switching to heating if the temp goes below 20c
turning OFF zones we don’t use during the day
turning ON the master bedroom zone an hour before we go to bed
turning OFF the HVAC if any of our perimeter doors are open
turning ON the HVAC once all perimeter doors are closed, and we’re home AND it’s within operating hours!
And finally - we have a slider in HA to set the master temperature - but we’ve not changed it from 21c in the past 18 months…!
My wife LITERALLY does not need to touch the existing thermostat at all, nor does she change any settings in HA. It just…works…!
really well done. Kudos to you for setting up so thoroughly.
I recently purchased my wifi unit, and set it up with homebridge container, seems to work ok.
It is interesting that my wifi unit does NOT report current temp. Consequently it does not come through the hombebridge interface.
Has anyone else observed this? I wonder if I’m not doing something wrong… The physical thermostat (NC-3) report current and target temps just fine. Not being picked up by the wifi unit is odd to me.
Please shout out if you’ve observed this behaviour.