Set the temperature of thermostat if HVAC is off

Configuration
1

Hello,

i’m trying to set the temperature of a thermostat. I can set the temperature with the following code only the HVAC_mode of the thermostat is “heat”:

action: climate.set_temperature
data:
temperature: 29
target:
entity_id: climate.bad_betterthermostat

when the HVAC_mode is “off” I can not set the temperature. Is this normal? This certainly worked in the past.

Thanks!

Regards

2

Not to my knowledge…

3

I think it depends on the entity or maybe the underlying integration… I have a “Generic thermostat” based climate entity that will accept it and update the value for temperature, but my physical thermostat integrated through ZHA, will not.

4

I just tested it on the previous version:
Core
2025.1.4
Supervisor
2024.12.3
Operating System
14.2
Frontend
20250109.2

It works when hvac_mode is set to “off.”

5

Thanks. I use Better Thermostat for control.