The one automation that almost every home has is a programmable HVAC system - yet this is still one of the things in HA that is very challenging - especially for new users.
We have a generic thermostat and now have schedules, all* that is missing is a user friendly way to link them both together and to add the ‘normal’ extras to the thermostat (like ‘boost’ or ‘advance’) and make schedules editable from within the thermostat.
* well, a bit more than ‘all’…
I am newb to HA and have been having a nightmare trying to get anything to work, main one being heating schedule.
I created a schedule in the helper section, I cant see how to add it to an automation. And I can’t see how to add an action to the helper. And when I can set up an automation, the only entity for my thermostat that I can select is Battery_state wth?
I can’t get a template I downloaded to work either.
It seems like my install is really borked but I’ve been through logs and can’t see anything that screams out.
I have my HA in a qemu VM when I set it up following a guide it was a very old version so I updated it repeatedly to current I suspect this is the cause of my issues but Idk logs look ok.
Both of those sound like they stem from using Device-based components. Since Schedule helpers are not attached to a device you need to use State triggers and conditions.
What do you mean by that? The schedule integration only supports a reload action.
Have you looked at the example automations in the Schedule integration docs?