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apetrycki / daikinskyport

API for accessing a DaikinOne+ Thermostat
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FR: Add thermostat settings as sensors #40

Closed hume-github closed 2 years ago

hume-github commented 2 years ago

I believe the current heating/cooling thresholds are contained in hspActive and cspActive, and the daikin class parses them.

By adding them in among the sensor values, not only can you have a thermostat display (despite the integration not being two-way), you can do something like comparing the outside temperature to the the thermostat setting to get a delta, and from there combine it with the reported energy usage to get a heating-degree-hour (I believe it's called that, I'm not an HVAC guy...) to get a rough estimate of your house's heating/cooling efficiency.

apetrycki commented 2 years ago

These are stored as attributes in the climate entity. You can create sensors from those or use the attributes directly in automations. https://community.home-assistant.io/t/using-attribute-as-trigger-for-automation/124665 https://community.home-assistant.io/t/attribute-as-sensor/149170