Hi, I do not get your point at the moment. Is it some “Melcloud” specific behavior, and it is working for you now?
Do I have to choose the same climate (device) in your modified version of the blueprint?
Why are you not using the “!input climate_target” as it is literally the same climate device as condition-target?
What is meant by “I unit” - what is the difference between the normal “state” of a climate device versus the state of a “melcloud” climate entity?
Why have you changed the device class to door instead of window?
Ahh, yes, about the device Class. For me to find the Z-wave Window and Door Sensor I had to change that device Class. Or I would not find it. I could also leave it in blank and it would show me all entities. I can change it back to yours or to all entities if you wish. But i am sure you can do it as well, since you created this one.
About the MELCLOUD, this is only for the Condition Part. I am still new to this, so this was the best way I could find for my CONDITION to work. As explained before, your Automation for me didnt work, because here in Portugal we dont need Climate always on, because we have times of the year that the temperature is just right, so if if the AC unit was off at the moment that I would open the Window , once I would close the window, it would start the climate, and we dont want that.
So for me to be able to use your automation and only triger if the actual climate unit was ON, I had to create a condition that would say, only trigger if you see these states
state:
‘heat’
‘dry’
‘cool’
‘fan_only’
‘heat_cool’
These are all the states that my Climate unit works with. I stated this because maybe your units have other diferent states.
So if the state of the Climate unit was OFF, then the automation would not start.
For this contition to work, yes you must use the same unit. because thats the unit that you want to control or not.
the condition sees if the targeted unit is on or not.
Hi! Yes, now it makes perfectly sense! The automation/blueprint should only run if the climate device is running. I have added a condition that checks if the entity is not off (so any climate state is accepted)! Check “condition” documentation here. That feature should have been included right from the beginning. Thank you for giving me the hint for the real life corner case! I was travelling to Spain (Andalucia) for the last 7 years and a lot of people have this kind of climate device! Greetings to Portugal and the sea!!!
p.s.: If you change the device class of your door/window sensor to window it shows up in the blueprint
Good Day,
first of all thanks for all the work done so far, really appreciate it!!
I am trying to use this Blueprint with my Homematic Door/Window Sensor and it does not work. What information can I provide for debugging?
First notice I can not select the sensor from the list I have to enter it manual.
Thanks for the quick response.
I did take the blueprint with the binary sensor and for some reason it does not trigger. Any ideas what to check? I can see that the sensor is reacting.
Hi,
Thanks for sharing this blueprint with us.
It did not work initially for me.
After some investigation, I made it work by replacing the condition attribute hvac_action by hvac_modes into the blueprint.
None of my climate entities have hvac_action as attribute.
I have not checked whether it screws the pinciple of the condition completely yet.
Hope it helps
Interesting - Thank you for sharing your experience! What climate entity are you using? @duesseldorferjung Maybe that is the same problem with your device
I am not sure what kind of answer you expect.
I have Eurotronic Spirit Zwave using Zwave2MQTT (integrated in Zwave JS directly, not using MQTT)
here is the full state:
hvac_modes:
- 'off'
- heat
min_temp: 7
max_temp: 35
preset_modes:
- none
- Energy heat
- Full power
current_temperature: 18.8
temperature: null
preset_mode: none
friendly_name: 'Radiateur_Salle_de_bain: Thermostat mode'
supported_features: 17
After a quick test, I can confirm that the condition is skipped though.
If I manually set my TRV to off, then open the window, wait a bit and close it up; the TRV goes back to heating
Yes, you are right - not every climate.entity has a hvac mode! I have updated the blueprint so that it checks for the state (without looking for a specific attribute!). It would be great if you can give me feedback if this modification still works for you and melcloud @Soccs - thanks in advance.
That’s a first time I try a blueprint, and it’s good so far.
an improvement, I would expect is definitely a sort of store, where you can update notifications and so on.
I would assume that it is not the same problem since the automation itself is not even triggered. The update you did, did you also do that on the version where all binary sensors can be selected?
Any feedback of your Homematic system would have been helpful! As there was no further complain I assume it is working now and I also have updated all the other versions, too.
As it is a public holiday over here I did find a bit of time to play around.
First of all fun fact, at some point I got really confused because I had deleted everything from HA and all of a sudden when I opened my window my heater went off and even showed a window symbol in the display. After reading the manual today turns out the homematic unit has a built in feature to notice high temperature variances and turns off. Anyways I deactivated that feature.
I tried the hint from @NicoLeOca and it did not have an effect. After removing all conditions opening the windows turned off the climate as designed. Closing the window did not have an effect.
Calling the climate.turn_on service manual I did notice there is no effect at all. Only calling the climate.set_temperature seems to have an effect.
Is there a possibility to safe the “old” target temperature somewhere and then set it once the window is closed?
I have been trying your Blueprint (very cool by the way) and have run into an issue that maybe you can help with. I am getting my ‘window’ status from my Konnected binary sensor for my patio door and it does work when the sensor of the door is open for the set time. The problem is it does not reset or tell the thermostat to go back to its original state.
Looking at the logs, I keep seeing this error:
2021-04-07 08:05:54 ERROR (MainThread) [homeassistant.components.automation] Blueprint Window open, climate off after a defined time generated invalid automation with inputs OrderedDict([(‘minimum_open_time’, 120), (‘window_entity’, ‘binary.patio.sensor’), (‘climate_target’, ‘climate.downstairs’)]): Entity ID binary.patio.sensor is an invalid entity ID for dictionary value @ data[‘entity_id’]. Got None
Still new to this and learning as I go. Any help would greatly be appreciated.
