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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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Indicator for faulty devices #1236

Open hpuac opened 10 months ago

hpuac commented 10 months ago

What is the feature?

Description

First of all I'd like to thank everyone working on this project. It's really awesome!

My issue

I ran into the situation that the BT control element was unavailable. It took me quite some time in googling, reading docs and reading debug logs to figure out the actual reason. In my case I configured one BT with two TRVs and one of them was not reacting to control inputs. When I checked the TRV device in HA, it was showing up normally but when trying to change the temperature it was simply not reacting to the input change.

Improvement idea

What would have helped would be a simple indicator that says TRV X, TRV Y, Temp Sensor X, Window Sensor Y are working properly. For example by having some sensors added to BT that indicate the health status of the "sub-devices". This could also be used to display a warning icon in the BT UI element once this situation happens.

Let me know what you think about it 🙂

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b1ggi commented 8 months ago

would love this feature, my tuya also have a bug to not respond. Is it possible to check if Heating Mode and set temp are correctly received?