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Nefit Easy connection for Home Assistant
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thermostat card always shows a 'fire' icon #106

Closed pathia closed 2 years ago

pathia commented 2 years ago

the thermostat card of my 'cv ketel' is always showing a lit 'fire' icon as if it is continuously heating. I'm not really sure what the underlying entity name for that is so I don't know how to debug this. (by the way the Nefit Easy app and the physical thermostat unit are not showing this heating icon continuously) image

RobBie1221 commented 2 years ago

The fire icon represents the HVAC mode. Only one mode is supported, which is HVAC_MODE_HEAT. You automatically get the fire icon with this mode. Other modes are for example COOL, DRY, FAN_ONLY. Nothing much I can do about that.

pathia commented 2 years ago

Hi Rob, thanks for the clarification. I confused the fire icon with the almost identical icon in the nefit easy app which over there tells whether or not the cv ketel is actually currently heating or not. For example my airconditioning has (among others) an off and a fire icon. If the cv ketel is not currently heating in my opinion it could be in the off state in home assistant.

RobBie1221 commented 2 years ago

The problem is that HVAC_MODE is a representation of the operation mode and not of the actual status. An airconditioning you can switch off, the nefit has no off switch.

If you are unhappy with this, you should adress your comments to the home assistant core. This integration is simply using what's available.