Thermostat card works, but underlying service calls don't

mastakebob · November 7, 2020, 2:37pm

My Thermostat lovelace card works fine, but manually calling climate services on the same entity does not work. Any ideas why that would be happening?

Details: I have a Nest thermostat integrated by the Badnest integration (mattsch repo on HACS). I have a simple thermostat lovelace card pointing to climate.dining_room_thermostat that works perfectly. Can turn on, off, set temperatures, exactly as expected.

However, when I call service calls from either Developer Tools or Node Red, nothing happens. Logs show nothing. I’ve added logger with custom_components.badnest: debug and nothing gets logged, either when I’m using the working card or the non-working service calls/node red call service nodes.

Not sure what else to try cause I can’t get any visibility into workings because logs aren’t showing anything even w/ ‘debug’ level.

Thermostat card config (works as expected):

entity: climate.dining_room_thermostat
name: HVAC
type: thermostat

Service call data (climate.set_temperature; does nothing):

entity_id: climate.dining_room_thermostat
temperature: 66
hvac_mode: heat

Anyone else having this trouble? Any pointers on where I can look to see what’s not working?

mastakebob · November 8, 2020, 9:23pm

So, more troubleshooting: it appears that the only climate service call that doesn’t work is set_temperature. Turn_on, set_hvac_mode, etc all work fine.

Set_temperature doesn’t work for either “auto” mode (target_high/low_temp) or “heat”/“cool” mode (“temperature”).

Weird.

nickrout · November 9, 2020, 4:07am

Here is the code

github.com

mattsch/badnest/blob/dd07530f4ac19ca4df48adf09e354e6f907c658e/custom_components/badnest/climate.py#L276


    # No Fan available so disable slider
    return None

@property
def fan_modes(self):
    """Return the list of available fan modes."""
    if self.device.device_data[self.device_id]['has_fan']:
        return self._fan_modes
    return None

def set_temperature(self, **kwargs):
    """Set new target temperature."""
    temp = None
    target_temp_low = kwargs.get(ATTR_TARGET_TEMP_LOW)
    target_temp_high = kwargs.get(ATTR_TARGET_TEMP_HIGH)
    if self.device.device_data[self.device_id]['mode'] == \
            NEST_MODE_HEAT_COOL:
        if target_temp_low is not None and target_temp_high is not None:
            self.device.thermostat_set_temperature(
                self.device_id,
                target_temp_low,

As this isn’t part of home assistant, I suggest you ask in mattsch’s github issues page.

mastakebob · November 11, 2020, 12:59pm

FURTHER troubleshooting: set_temperature works when you don’t include hvac_mode. So to set a temperature and hvac mode, you have to make 2 service calls: set_temperature and set_hvac_mode.

Created an issue on the badnest repo. Got a work around for now. Hoping this thread is helpful to anyone else experiencing the same issue. Hoping the ‘native’ Nest integration supports thermostats soon.