KartoffelToby / 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 temperature probe to decide when it should call for heat and automatically calibrate your TRVs to fix the imprecise measurements taken in the radiator's vicinity.

https://better-thermostat.org

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call eco mode from automatisation #1093

Open CHazz opened 10 months ago

CHazz commented 10 months ago

hello, is possible ECO mode in the automation? currently I only have heat and off options

thank you very much your thermostat is perfec****

pbranly commented 10 months ago

Hi this is something I have asked several times Good demand thanks Phil

g0mga commented 10 months ago

I'm not sure if this suggestion is of any use as I am not sure what your exact requirements are for the " call eco mode"

If it relates to TRV I do adjust my setpoints "on the fly" according to whether the room is occupied or not. Eg I have a setpoint at 17 if room is unoccupied and then it adjusts to 20 when someone is resident.

just a thought,, but I agree 100% that it would be very useful and would have saved me a lot of head scratching.

I use as an "action"
service: Climate: [Set target temperature]. .........[Target Temperature] 20.......... [HVAC Mode] Heat

southz commented 7 months ago

To be consistent with the Lovelace UI element it would be helpful to have some eco mode temperature defined. I like the idea to have the settings in the Better Thermostate device and just switch between modes when occupied/not occupied. I tried climate.set_preset_mode to set "eco", but this is not defined by Better Thermostate.

By now I'm switching to target temperatures with automations, but then UI is not consistent because of not switching modes.

southz commented 7 months ago

723 #1080 both probably related