jmcollin78 / versatile_thermostat

A full featured Thermostat for Home Assistant: presets, window, motion, presence and overpowering management
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Question after switching from the awesome thermostat #293

Closed Sourcekot closed 11 months ago

Sourcekot commented 11 months ago

I'm currently in the process of switching from the awesome thermostat to the versatile thermostat and got a few questions:

  1. The main reason for switching was the window delay but after reading the documentation it seems it is not working the way I expected it to work. What I want to achieve is that the heating doesn't start immediately after closing the window but after a delay of about 15 or 30 minutes as the room will reheat itself. Is that possible with VT`? I'm using mostly thermostats over climate with window detection in sensor mode.
  2. As I'm switching from the awesome thermostat I'm wondering if there is something like the "hot_tolerance" or "cold_tolerance" or how is this handle in VT?
  3. Is there a reason why there is no sleep mode like in the awesome thermostat? I thought this was supposed to be a rewrite of it so I'm surprised that some features seem to be missing.
  4. Some of my thermostats don't allow an offset so I've handled them in my awesome thermostat via a switch which sets the target temperature to a few degrees higher than the real target temperature. Otherwise the thermostat itself would have detected a higher temperature than the target and switch itself off before the room really reaches the target.

I hope you can answer some or all of these questions for me.

UPDATE: I tried it now and its not working the way I expect it to work. I have a thermostat with a target temperature of 17.5°C and acurrent temperature of 19.3°C and still it is setting the associated climate entity to heating with a temperature of 18°C. As the target temperature is below the current temperature I expect it to simply turn off the climate entity or set its temperature to the frost preset as this is what awesome thermostat would do.

jmcollin78 commented 11 months ago

Hello @Sourcekot ,

This is more question for the "discussions" rather than the Issues. I will convert it to discussion.