Bug: State doesnt match hvac_action

[timknowlden]

My thermostats although are on 'idle' report their state as 'heat'

I have another thermostat (different integration) which reports correctly as per home assistants guidelines.

[ribbal]

I think that is expected behaviour for the Heatmiser stats. The state toggles between ‘off’ and ‘heat’ when the stat is put into and out of ‘standby’ mode.

[timknowlden]

The issue I face is that using a device counter it counts thermostats as heating when the neo thermostats are on idle. All of my tado ones do not show state as heat when they are on idle

[ribbal]

Could you post the yaml for the device counter, please?

[timknowlden]

Yes, I use home kit infused. YAML is here:

device_counters.yaml

# All Radiator Valves or Climate entities (ONLY climate entities can be used here!, if you have a single thermostat put it here as well)
all_climate_entities:
  entities:
    - climate.bedroom
    - climate.graces_room
    - climate.harpers_room
    - climate.en_suite_bathroom
    - climate.main_bathroom
    - climate.hallway
    - climate.office
    - climate.kitchen
    - climate.lounge

hki_sensors.yaml

# Template Sensors (device counting)
  - platform: template
    sensors:
      empty_sensor:
        value_template: " "
      current_entities_on:
        friendly_name: All Entities Currently On
        value_template: >-
          {% set all = expand('group.all_entities')|selectattr('state','eq','on')|list|count %}
          {% set heat = expand('group.all_climate_entities')|selectattr('state','eq','heat')|list|count %}
          {% set cool = expand('group.all_climate_entities')|selectattr('state','eq','cool')|list|count %}
          {% set heat_cool = expand('group.all_climate_entities')|selectattr('state','eq','heat_cool')|list|count %}          
          {% set total = heat + cool + heat_cool + all %}
          {{ total }}
      current_lights_on:
        friendly_name: All Lights Currently On
        value_template: >-
          {{ expand('group.all_light_entities')|selectattr('state','eq','on')|list|count }}
      current_devices_on:
        friendly_name: All Devices Currently On
        value_template: >-
          {{ expand('group.all_device_switch_entities')|selectattr('state','eq','on')|list|count }}
      current_motion_sensors_on:
        friendly_name: All Motion Sensors Currently On
        value_template: >-
          {{ expand('group.all_motion_sensor_entities')|selectattr('state','eq','on')|list|count }}
      current_binary_sensors_on:
        friendly_name: All Binary Sensors Currently On
        value_template: >-
          {{ expand('group.all_binary_sensor_entities')|selectattr('state','eq','on')|list|count }}
      current_doors_open:
        friendly_name: All Doors Currently Open
        value_template: >-
          {{ expand('group.all_door_sensor_entities')|selectattr('state','eq','on')|list|count }}
      current_windows_open:
        friendly_name: All Windows Currently Open
        value_template: >-
          {{ expand('group.all_window_sensor_entities')|selectattr('state','eq','on')|list|count }}
      current_climate_entities_on:
        friendly_name: All Climate Entities Currently On
        value_template: >-
          {% set heat = expand('group.all_climate_entities')|selectattr('state','eq','heat')|list|count %}
          {% set cool = expand('group.all_climate_entities')|selectattr('state','eq','cool')|list|count %}
          {% set heat_cool = expand('group.all_climate_entities')|selectattr('state','eq','heat_cool')|list|count %}          
          {% set total = heat + cool + heat_cool %}
          {{ total }}

[ribbal]

Could you use something like this: {{ expand('group.all_climate_entities') | selectattr('state','eq','heat') | selectattr('attributes.hvac_action','eq','heating')|list|count }}?

You'll probably need to combine this value with your existing tado thermostat count.

[timknowlden]

Could you use something like this: {{ expand('group.all_climate_entities') | selectattr('state','eq','heat') | selectattr('attributes.hvac_action','eq','heating')|list|count }}?

You'll probably need to combine this value with your existing tado thermostat count.

It would be a way to get the device counter working. But styling issues with the button card would differ between different thermostats.

[MindrustUK]

Heatmiser handles multiple modes dictated by various settings ie;

COOL_MODE=False COOL_ON=False HEAT_MODE=True HEAT_ON=False PREHEAT_ACTIVE=False

Try and correlate these internally to the plug-in to reflect the state of the thermostat; i.e Offline Heat actively on Idle etc...

Respect already in place configuration options, or better harvest these from the hub configuration if possible.

[iandarbeynhiu]

Can this be used to correctly show preheating?

I can see preheating in the heatmiser app but not via homeassistant and I think it's due to the hvac action not updating when the preheat_active flag (visible in the entity attributes) changes to true.

Preheating appears a valid state https://developers.home-assistant.io/docs/core/entity/climate/#set-hvac-mode https://github.com/home-assistant/core/blob/ab29c796da44392eb61527e7e8c8e976d5596869/homeassistant/components/climate/const.py#L88C1-L97C30

[MindrustUK]

This should be resolved as part of the new version 2 rewrite of this integration here: https://github.com/MindrustUK/Heatmiser-for-home-assistant/tree/dev please test and provide feedback.

[MindrustUK]

Closing, no response.