Feature request: show status of underfloor heating distributor groups

ChrisMisker commented 12 months ago

This is really a great custom component. Really great work!

It would be awesome if the component could also show the underfloor heating distributors and the status (open or closed) of its groups.

arjenbos commented 12 months ago

Hi @ChrisMisker ,

Do you have more information from your installation? Like which API endpoint returns this information? And what are the request parameters for this endpoint?

Thanks!

evdb-arne commented 12 months ago

I can chip in here. It's in the /api/gateway/dbmodules endpoint. Here's an example:

    "00050E9BA06530A": {
        "id": 9,
        "deviceid": "00050E9BA06530A",
        "nodeid": "10",
        "name": "Regelmodule Vloerverwarming",
        "room": "",
        "currentTemperature": "off",
        "battery": "off",
        "binarySwitch": false,
        "isFailed": false,
        "lastResponse": 1698431877000,
        "interviewDone": true,
        "vendorId": 380,
        "productId": 3,
        "type": "floor",
        "instances": [
            {
                "instance": "1",
                "room": 0,
                "status": false
            },
            {
                "instance": "2",
                "room": 0,
                "status": false
            },
            {
                "instance": "3",
                "room": 0,
                "status": false
            },
            {
                "instance": "4",
                "room": 0,
                "status": false
            },
            {
                "instance": "5",
                "room": 0,
                "status": false
            },
            {
                "instance": "6",
                "room": 0,
                "status": false
            },
            {
                "instance": "7",
                "room": 0,
                "status": true
            },
            {
                "instance": "8",
                "room": 0,
                "status": false
            }
        ]
    }

DeviceID and name won't help you as these will vary per installation. However the 'productID': 3 will let you know that it's a UFH distributor. Every instance is a single valve, so probably just create a simple binary sensor for each of them with the status as an attribute.

Nice to have: several valves are often combined per room. So for example instance 1 to 4 are for the living room and are controlled as one zone. You can't get that info from this endpoint, but it's somewhere in the system, so maybe available via an endpoint. Don't spend to much time on this however, as you can just group the sensors in HA quite easily.

arjenbos commented 11 months ago

That's some very useful information @arnebret ! I will have a look.

arjenbos commented 11 months ago

I added support for valves. I already merged the banches in the main branch. See this PR - https://github.com/arjenbos/ha_alpha_innotec/pull/12

evdb-arne commented 11 months ago

Great stuff @arjenbos! Did a quick test of the main branch and it seems to work exactly as it should, perfect!

arjenbos commented 11 months ago

Nice! Thanks for testing @arnebret :smile:

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Feature request: show status of underfloor heating distributor groups #4