#Convert water_heater to Climate for HomeKit Integration

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leaden trout
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I've got a kettle, which shows as a water_heater in HA. I can get it to show in Apple Home via the HomeKit Bridge integration, but it is missing the ability to basically change its mode from heat to off and back to heat. So, if I can change the domain from water_heater to climate this would work.

Anyone know how to do that?

I've been looking pretty hard, and can't find the answer.

The closest I could find was to use a Climate Template, but that requires the mode switch to be a seperate entity, which it isn't as it is part of the water_heater entity.

I'm not new to HA, but will be new to modifying the configuration.yaml (If that's what is required) so please be gentle.

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I have found something and have updated by configuration.yaml , using studio code server, and added:

homeassistant:
customize:
water_heater.kettle_kettle:
device_class: climate

It shows enumWarning and when I restart it has not made any change.

Thanks in advance