mik9/better_thermostat

This custom component for Home Assistant will add crucial features to your climate-controlling TRV (Thermostatic Radiator Valves) to save you the work of creating automations to make it smart. It combines a room-temperature sensor, window/door sensors, weather forecasts, or an ambient...

Better Thermostat

For more infos visit: https://better-thermostat.org/

Requirements

• Minimum required Home Assistant version: 2022.8.0 (Latest tested version: 2024.1.0)

Companion UI

We've created a companion UI element which can display more information than the default thermostat element in Home Assistant. Check it out via HACS: better-thermostat-ui-card

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Features

This integration brings some smartness to your connected radiator thermostats setup:

• Uses a temperature sensor far away from the radiators to measure the real room temperature
• Makes your TRVs fully compatible with Google Home
• Let your windows disable your heating (avoids programming this via automations)
• Your weather forecast provider will turn your heat on/off
• Or an outside air temperature sensor can do this as well
• Does some valve-maintenance automatically, to avoid that they will get stuck closed over summer
• Group multiple TRVs to one (e.g. for a room with multiple radiators)
• Enhance the default TRV Algorithm with some smartness to reduce the energy consumption

Which hardware do we support?

We support all thermostats which are compatible with Home Assistant as long as they are shown up as a climate entity

Integrations that are tested

• Zigbee2Mqtt
• Deconz
• Tado
• generic_thermostat

How to setup

Install this integration via HACS or copy the files from the latest release

Configuration details can be found in the documentation or on our website: better-thermostat.org

Some nice to know config tips for the configuration.yaml

Example Window/Door - Sensor config

group:
  livingroom_windows:
    name: Livingroom Windows
    icon: mdi:window-open-variant
    all: false
    entities:
      - binary_sensor.openclose_1
      - binary_sensor.openclose_2
      - binary_sensor.openclose_3

Combine multiple TRV to one (Group)

No worry, Better Thermostat supports grouping out of the box

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Contributing?

checkout the CONTRIBUTING.md file

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