Feature Request: Holiday Mode

[ceee5]

Hi,

In my quest to keep our home assistant deployment as transparent to the end users, I'd like to use the holiday mode, set either by the app or on our neoultra as a trigger to Home Assistant.

Can the Heatmiser for Home Assistant application support this as a standalone entity?

Many thanks

Jon

[MindrustUK]

I'll have to check the current API implementation, while I'm not familiar with the NeoUltra if this is a direct service call to functionality available via the API it should be easy enough to surface as something callable in Home assistant.

[ceee5]

Great, thank you

[MindrustUK]

I've had a look at the API and this is indeed available as an option, and thanks to the great work already done by stikonas it's already surfaced in the neohubapi library.

I'd need to now extend and surface the option as some sort of global setting across the Heatmiser devices, I'm thinking the Neohub as a central point is the way to go, creating entities and services related to that off the top of my head.

Can't promise any time for getting round to it but I'll put it on the list somewhere and try and revisit it once I clear out some of my back log.

[ocrease]

@ceee5 I think on the dev branch you should be able to do what you wanted now. It is not completely clear what you were requesting, but I think both of these are doable:

• If you want to trigger an automation when the heatmiser system is set to away or holiday, there are two new sensors (disabled by default) that show the away / holiday state:
• If you want to be able to set away mode from HA, this is also now possible:

Note that setting Away mode on any thermostat will set all of them to Away. If you want to just set one thermostat to standby/frost mode, just set the mode to Off (instead of heat on the screenshot)

You could also use the standard Climate: Set preset mode or Climate: Set HVAC mode actions if you want to change the state from an automation.

See #206 for small improvements coming