Car-Heater-Package V 1.1.4

Control your car engine heater with Home Assistant

Description

Designed for and tested with Home Assistant hassio version 0.86.4

Functions:

• 2 sliders to control leaving time
• Shows current time
• Manuel switch to start/stop heater
• switch to activte function
• switch to control if it should be active all week or just weekdays

Its created as a Home Assistant package and uses yr as temp sensor but its recommended to use a local temp sensor for batter accuracy.

In the example im using 4 different starting times

• 180 min when colder then -20 degrees Celsius
• 120 min when colder then -10 degrees Celsius
• 60 min when colder then +1 degrees Celsius
• 30 min when colder then +5 degrees Celsius

You can edit the times and temp values to better fit your conditions and heater.

Please note that the automation that checks time/temp is started at 02:00 and you need to change that if you are leaving before 04:00 (this is because they check status every 5th min so don’t want them on all day)

Screenshot from HASS GUI

Installation

• If your installation doesn’t already support the use of packages please activate it.
• Place Heater.yaml in your package folder
• Edit the config section in Heater.yaml to use the sensor of your choice (or leave it as is to use the YR sensor).
• Edit Heater.yaml to use the correct switch that controls your heater (switch.motorvarmaren in the example)
• Edit Heater.yaml and edit your default leaving time as it will be reset when HASS restarts
• Restart HASS and start using it.

Change log

1.1.4

Simpler temperature config pull #8 Rework time check pull #7

1.1.3

now using time_pattern

1.1.2

corected temp codition on "below 5" issue #1

1.1.1

removed main group switch/control

1.1

Added a 4th trigger for -20 and colder

1.0.1

Small typo fixed in bolean name

1.0

First release