Hello everybody. I recently added a series of smart thermostats (sonoff) to our home. I already had temperature sensors at this point... and I feel they are quite accurate...
I am aware I can set a temperature offset in the devices... which seems to work.
I am using the thermostat-cards for these instances, but they always show the temperature of the given thermostat in that card. I'd like to allow for getting the value from another entity. Can anybody point me into the correct direction on how I'd go about this? Thanks in advance!
#Modifying an existing card. How to?
viscid sigil
It's probably something along these lines https://developers.home-assistant.io/docs/frontend/custom-ui/custom-card.... though, that is creating a completely new card
pearl crane
If you want to control your TRVs with a separate sensor it's best to use one of the "wrapper" thermostat integrations that exist (versatile thermostat, better thermostat) which let you combine them properly into a single climate entity which lets the thermostatcard do its thing. it's much more robust
viscid sigil
maybe I should even ditch my existing temperature sensors... but... I feel they are more accurate
viscid sigil
If you want to control your TRVs with a separate sensor it's best to use one of ...
Gonna check that out. thx
pearl crane
also yeah, external sensors are much more accurate, the integrated ones in the TRV get thrown off because they are right next to something really hot - so tend to warm up faster than the room they're in
the other nice thing about VT and BT is you can group a bunch of radiators in a room together to let you control them as one
viscid sigil
exactly. I had some stuff infront of the radiator ...and the temperature difference to the external sensors is over 3° now
I'll give BT a try. The automation stuff seems overkill for me.... already done the automation were is stops the thermostat when a windows is opened (though, mine also activates the thermostat again when the window is closed and it was on before that)
pearl crane
i switched from BT to VT recently but apparently there might be some bugs in BT since the 2024.10.X update
viscid sigil
oh... better check the git bug reports then
pearl crane
viscid sigil
yikes
Versatile Thermostat doesn't look as nice though. Very text-heavy... no nice gfx
pearl crane
That said, I remember talking to that guy and he was... unhelpful when it came to debugging the problem
viscid sigil
ah, proud developer, eh?
pearl crane
Versatile does have a nice ui card based on the BT one, but it's not in hacs, you have to add it as a custom repository
pearl crane
viscid sigil
little overloaded :D, but I assume all those icons can be toggled? I'll have a total of 8 thermostats soon... only 4 for now
switching from those Kasa things to Sonoff as I want to have em controllable locally and interconnected with all the other smart stuff
viscid sigil
Is something broken about the Number Tempalte? I can save just fine, but the UI always says "required key not provided @ data['set_value']. Got None" in the preview
Want to get the outside temperature from the attribute of a weather service entity
viscid sigil
stays the same
the "10" is just for testing.
I think this should be correct
{{ state_attr(states('weather.forecast_home'),'temperature') }}
maybe have to convert to float.... not sure.... but the preview is always broken
pearl crane
{{ state_attr('weather.forecast_home','temperature') }}
viscid sigil
ah, alright. let me check that one
Something is broken... even restarted HA
Okay, I probably need a sensor template
number is only int is seems...
pearl crane
Oh - it should just be a template sensor, not a template number
viscid sigil
Okay, yeah... sensor template works
pearl crane
sorry didn't realise what you were doing because of the language ^^
pearl crane
refresh your browser page
viscid sigil
tried. Still the red exclamation mark
pearl crane
and you can't then go into settings and delete? that's very strange
viscid sigil
thats all I get when opening the settings
pearl crane
sorry.. i don't know what to do with UI bugs other than refresh and hope it goes away 😛
viscid sigil
nah, I think I can delete it once I can manage to get it configured correctly...
https://community.home-assistant.io/t/required-key-not-provided-data-set-value-got-none/784124 I am not alone with this one it seems. This is the solution
Perfect. Added a random action and was now able to delete it. Very confusing