Setting up automation on thermostat

1

Hello all.

I’am brand new user of HA (just a couple of days experience) On raspi 3B .

After succesfully setting up zigbee buttons / switchs / thermostat, etc, I made my firsts automations without too much problem, but I stuck on the following:

I have a zigbee thermostat controling house heating, and i would like to add a switch working in parallel with the heater (switch on when heating, switch off otherwise ).

I create the following automation:

alias: thermostat on
description: “”
trigger:
** - platform: device**
** device_id: 01ae89bab6eddb0afded7897dc1011af**
** domain: climate**
** entity_id: 0b93d3e2cbb3325f38c97da90b51f0a5**
** type: hvac_mode_changed**
** to: heat**
condition: []
action:
** - service: switch.turn_on**
** metadata: {}**
** data: {}**
** target:**
** entity_id: switch.0xa4c138f2f62078d6**
mode: single

I suspect the type “hvac_mode_changed” has to changed to “Running state”, but I was not able to do that.

Any help would be apreciated.

Best regards,

Didier

2

First off, please format your YAML properly in the forum, it’s very difficult to read what you have pasted. See item 11 in this post:

Second, your automation will likely be based on the hvac_mode as it’s the attribute that indicates if you are off, cooling, heating, etc. So your trigger will be something like this:

platform: state
entity_id:
  - climate.the_name_of_your_climate_entity
attribute: hvac_action
from: idle
to: heating
3

Hello CO_4X4, Thanks for your answer.

Unfortunatly, I already tryed this . As what i have read somewhere, hvac_mode_changed indicate if the unit is in cooling /heating/ ventilation… mode, but not reflect if it is currently ON or OFF so no triggering .

In my case, the thermostat is TS0601 _TZE204_lzriup1j .

description: ""
trigger:
  - platform: state
    entity_id:
      - climate.0xa4c138fcb49b0e00
    attribute: hvac_action
    from: idle
    to: "on"
condition: []
action:
  - service: switch.turn_on
    metadata: {}
    data: {}
    target:
      device_id: 2c4bc071d2e387fbc86b9c7f9722ddd5
mode: single

After a lot of try, i found a working way (I post it here, in case it can help someone):

alias: thermostat on
description: ""
trigger:
  - platform: state
    entity_id:
      - climate.0xa4c138fcb49b0e00
    attribute: running_state
    to: heat
    from: idle
condition: []
action:
  - service: switch.turn_on
    metadata: {}
    data: {}
    target:
      device_id: 2c4bc071d2e387fbc86b9c7f9722ddd5
mode: single