Heating

This is an AppDaemon automation of my heating in Home Assistant, as explained in this video on YouTube. It sets the thermostat's target temperature and switches heating on and off. It also adds the current temperature and heating mode to the thermostat entities.

Installation

1. This requires AppDeamon installed and configured (follow the documentation on their web site).
2. Make sure that voluptuous and datetime are incuded in the python_packages option
3. Copy the content of the appdaemon directory from this repository to your home assistant /config/appdaemon folder
4. Add configuration to your Home Assistant's /config/appdaemon/apps/apps.yaml

Configuration

This is the configuration that goes into /config/appdaemon/apps/apps.yaml

Example:

heating-control:
  module: heating-control
  class: HeatingControl
  switch_heating: switch.heating
  somebody_home: input_boolean.somebody_home
  heating_mode: input_select.heating_mode
  temperature_vacation: input_number.temperature_vacation
  rooms:
  - sensor: sensor.teplota_living_toom
    day_night: input_boolean.livingroom_day_night
    temperature_day: input_number.livingroom_day
    temperature_night: input_number.livingroom_night
    thermostats:
    - climate.termostat_living_room
    - climate.termostat_dining_area

Parameters:

Attribute	Required	Description
module	Yes	Always heating-control
class	Yes	Always HeatingControl
switch_heating	Yes	entity_id of the switch, controlng the boiler - this AppDaemon script will turn this off to turn off the heating, and on to turn it on (in which case the built-in boiler program will be used)
somebody_home	Yes	entity_id of the boolean value that is on when somebody is home and off otherwise
heating_mode	Yes	entity_id of the input select with heating modes. Can contain the values On, Off, Eco, Auto and Vacation - these values can be changed - se the bottom of this README. Not all values have to be defined.
temperature_vacation	Yes	entity_id of the input containg the temperature to be used for vacation mode
rooms	Yes	List of rooms - see bellow

Room parameters

Attribute	Required	Description
sensor	Yes	entity_id of the temperature sensor
day_night	Yes	entity_id of the boolean switch between high/low (day/night). This is on for 'day', off for 'night'
temperature_day	Yes	entity_id of the input containg the high (or day) temperature for the given room
temperature_night	Yes	entity_id of the input containg the low (or night) temperature for the given room
thermostats	Yes	list of thermostat entity_ids

Other configuration

The heating-control.py file uses constants for the 5 heating modes. If you'd like to name your modes differently, you can change them there. The values should be in lowercase.

MODE_ON = "on"
MODE_OFF = "off"
MODE_AUTO = "auto"
MODE_ECO = "eco"
MODE_VACATION = "vacation"