Using Thermostat Card without Thermostat

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Hi,

I have a garage room which isn’t part of the regular home heating system. I do have an electric heater and a Zwave Temp sensor which I have been using in HA and Node Red to work as a thermostat i.e. I have a Slider on Lovelace used by node red to turn the electric heater on and off.

However, I just think that some of the thermostat cards look way nicer than my slider and was hoping that I could use them to basically set a set_temp helper that node red can monitor.

Is this possible?

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I suggest you consider using the Generic Thermostat integration. It requires two entities:

  • The switch that turns the heater on/off.
  • A sensor that reports the room’s temperature.

Using those two entities, it can maintain the room’s temperature at the desired setpoint temperature. It also presents itself in the UI via the Thermostat card.

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