Hi,
I’m currently in the market for smarting up my central heating system.
There are quite many options out there and many of them are supported by Home Assistant. My current favorites are Tado, Netatmo and the new Spirit Z Wave Plus radiator thermostats.
Tado and Netatmo bring their own app to control the system, but the Zwave thermostats would have to be controlled via Homeassistant in my case.
So, I’m wondering how you guys have set this up so that it is easily controllable (WAF) while still allowing for all the typical settings.
In the examples I found so far, I saw groups for each thermostat showing the current and target temperature as well as a slider to control the target temperature. For - lets say - 5 rooms there would be 5 of those groups.
What I am missing is:
- control of away / home mode (temporarily overrides the schedule until the schedule item)
- setup of heating schedules (for each weekday and thermostat, e.g. 6-8am, 6-11pm)
- vacation schedule (for all thermostats at once)
Those settings are usually features of event the non-smart radiator thermostats.
How is Home assistant handling such things? Is there something built-in?
How did you build it without flooding the UI with 27 lines per thermostat?
Thanks for your inspiration
Jochen