Honeywell REDlink Internet Gateway - not showing thermostat in HASS

[mmotley999]

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Home Assistant release (hass --version): 0.51.2

Python release (python3 --version): Python 3.4.2

Component/platform: Honeywell Thermostat (climate), US version

Description of problem: I have a 4-zone system with 3 wired thermostats and 1 wireless thermostat (by wireless I mean using Honeywell's REDLink proprietary protocol).

So far I replaced 2 of the wired thermostat with WiFi models, and they are working great.

I just added a Honeywell REDLink Internet Gateway for the REDLink thermostat. I can see the thermostat on mytotalconnectcomfort and the phone app and control it fine, however it is not showing up in HASS.

I've tried to decipher the API protocol from somecomfort, as I do notice that on the mytotalcomfort website some features are "missing" with these REDLink thermostats (such as fan condition). I'm just not good enough in Python (although trying desperately to learn!) to make much sense of it.

Expected: The additional thermostat showing up in HASS.

Problem-relevant configuration.yaml entries and steps to reproduce:

climate:
  - platform: honeywell
    username: <redacted>
    password: <redacted>
    region: us
    scan_interval: 600
    cool_away_temperature: 83
    heat_away_temperature: 66

Traceback (if applicable):

Aug 15 16:43:11 hass1 hass[23549]: #033[32m2017-08-15 16:43:11 INFO (MainThread) [homeassistant.core] Bus:Handling <Event state_changed[L]: old_
state=None, new_state=<state climate.office=idle; operation_mode=cool, current_temperature=81, away_mode=off, unit_of_measurement=°F, fan_list=[
'auto', 'on', 'circulate', 'follow schedule'], temperature=83, fan=idle, friendly_name=Office, operation_list=['emheat', 'heat', 'off', 'cool',
'auto', 'auto'], min_temp=45, fan_mode=auto, max_temp=95 @ 2017-08-15T16:43:11.154608-07:00>, entity_id=climate.office>#033[0m
Aug 15 16:43:11 hass1 hass[23549]: #033[32m2017-08-15 16:43:11 INFO (MainThread) [homeassistant.core] Bus:Handling <Event state_changed[L]: old_
state=None, new_state=<state climate.living_room=idle; operation_mode=cool, current_temperature=78, away_mode=off, unit_of_measurement=°F, fan_l
ist=['auto', 'on', 'circulate', 'follow schedule'], temperature=86, fan=idle, friendly_name=Living Room, operation_list=['emheat', 'heat', 'off'
, 'cool', 'auto', 'auto'], min_temp=45, fan_mode=auto, max_temp=95 @ 2017-08-15T16:43:11.162434-07:00>, entity_id=climate.living_room>#033[0m
Aug 15 16:43:11 hass1 hass[23549]: #033[31m2017-08-15 16:43:11 ERROR (MainThread) [homeassistant.core] Error doing job: Task exception was never
 retrieved#033[0m
Aug 15 16:43:11 hass1 hass[23549]: Traceback (most recent call last):
Aug 15 16:43:11 hass1 hass[23549]: File "/usr/lib/python3.4/asyncio/tasks.py", line 237, in _step
Aug 15 16:43:11 hass1 hass[23549]: result = next(coro)
Aug 15 16:43:11 hass1 hass[23549]: File "/srv/homeassistant/homeassistant_venv/lib/python3.4/site-packages/homeassistant/helpers/entity_componen
t.py", line 381, in async_process_entity
Aug 15 16:43:11 hass1 hass[23549]: new_entity, self, update_before_add=update_before_add
Aug 15 16:43:11 hass1 hass[23549]: File "/srv/homeassistant/homeassistant_venv/lib/python3.4/site-packages/homeassistant/helpers/entity_componen
t.py", line 238, in async_add_entity
Aug 15 16:43:11 hass1 hass[23549]: yield from entity.async_update_ha_state()
Aug 15 16:43:11 hass1 hass[23549]: File "/srv/homeassistant/homeassistant_venv/lib/python3.4/site-packages/homeassistant/helpers/entity.py", lin
e 239, in async_update_ha_state
Aug 15 16:43:11 hass1 hass[23549]: state = self.state
Aug 15 16:43:11 hass1 hass[23549]: File "/srv/homeassistant/homeassistant_venv/lib/python3.4/site-packages/homeassistant/components/climate/__in
it__.py", line 412, in state
Aug 15 16:43:11 hass1 hass[23549]: if self.current_operation:
Aug 15 16:43:11 hass1 hass[23549]: File "/srv/homeassistant/homeassistant_venv/lib/python3.4/site-packages/homeassistant/components/climate/honeywell.py", line 265, in current_operation
Aug 15 16:43:11 hass1 hass[23549]: oper = getattr(self._device, ATTR_CURRENT_OPERATION, None)
Aug 15 16:43:11 hass1 hass[23549]: File "/srv/homeassistant/homeassistant_venv/lib/python3.4/site-packages/somecomfort/client.py", line 273, in equipment_output_status
Aug 15 16:43:11 hass1 hass[23549]: return EQUIPMENT_OUTPUT_STATUS[self._data['uiData']['EquipmentOutputStatus']]
Aug 15 16:43:11 hass1 hass[23549]: TypeError: list indices must be integers, not NoneType#033[0m

Additional info: The two thermostats in the traceback above (Office and Living Room) are WiFi wired thermostats and appear to be discovered fine. It seems to crash when trying to discover the REDLink thermostat.

I know this is probably not a common setup, and I'm willing to help troubleshoot if somebody could point me in the right direction with regards to the API. I also don't know if this belongs here or on the somecomfort side.... thanks in advance for an awesome piece of software.

[mmotley999]

I've found a workaround by modifying somecomfort client.py to return "idle" if the equipment output status is "None". I'll verify that I have control over the temperature setpoints tonight, and then post this over at the somecomfort github site. Frankly, I have no clue if "idle" is even the correct thing to return here, but at least the thermostat did magically appear in HASS upon restart.

    @property
    def equipment_output_status(self):
        """The current equipment output status"""
        if self._data['uiData']['EquipmentOutputStatus'] == 0:
            if self.fan_running:
                return "fan"
            else:
                return "off"
        if self._data['uiData']['EquipmentOutputStatus'] == None:
            return "idle"
        else:
            return EQUIPMENT_OUTPUT_STATUS[self._data['uiData']['EquipmentOutputStatus']]

[mmotley999]

Actually, the issue is resolved in version 0.5.0 of somecomfort, more elegantly:

    @property
    def equipment_output_status(self):
        """The current equipment output status"""
        if self._data['uiData']['EquipmentOutputStatus'] in (0, None):
            if self.fan_running:
                return "fan"
            else:
                return "off"
        return EQUIPMENT_OUTPUT_STATUS[self._data['uiData']['EquipmentOutputStatus']]

Any reason why the HASS honeywell component can't require 0.5.0 instead of 0.4.1?

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[mmotley999]

Closing.. I originally hacked somecomfort to fix this, but was resolved for good in 0.59 with somecomfort 0.5.0.