diff --git a/pylabrobot/liquid_handling/backends/hamilton/STAR_backend.py b/pylabrobot/liquid_handling/backends/hamilton/STAR_backend.py
index 5fff3f594ba..74fa364b135 100644
--- a/pylabrobot/liquid_handling/backends/hamilton/STAR_backend.py
+++ b/pylabrobot/liquid_handling/backends/hamilton/STAR_backend.py
@@ -7811,6 +7811,112 @@ async def send_hhs_command(self, index: int, command: str, **kwargs) -> str:
     assert isinstance(resp, str)
     return resp
 
+  # ------------ STAR(RS-232/TCC1/2)-connected Hamilton Heater Cooler (HHS) -------------
+
+  async def check_type_is_hhc(self, device_number: int):
+    """
+    Convenience method to check that connected device is an HHC.
+    Executed through firmware query
+    """
+
+    firmware_version = await self.send_command(module=f"T{device_number}", command="RF")
+    if "Hamilton Heater Cooler" not in firmware_version:
+      raise ValueError(
+        f"Device number {device_number} does not connect to a Hamilton"
+        f" Heater-Cooler, found {firmware_version} instead."
+        f"Have you called the wrong device number?"
+      )
+
+  async def initialize_hhc(self, device_number: int) -> str:
+    """Initialize Hamilton Heater Cooler (HHC) at specified TCC port
+
+    Args:
+      device_number: TCC connect number to the HHC
+    """
+
+    module_pointer = f"T{device_number}"
+
+    # Request module configuration
+    try:
+      await self.send_command(module=module_pointer, command="QU")
+    except TimeoutError as exc:
+      error_message = (
+        f"No Hamilton Heater Cooler found at device_number {device_number}"
+        f", have you checked your connections? Original error: {exc}"
+      )
+      raise ValueError(error_message) from exc
+
+    await self.check_type_is_hhc(device_number)
+
+    # Request module configuration
+    hhc_init_status = await self.send_command(module=module_pointer, command="QW", fmt="qw#")
+    hhc_init_status = hhc_init_status["qw"]
+
+    info = "HHC already initialized"
+    # Initializing HHS if necessary
+    if hhc_init_status != 1:
+      # Initialize device
+      await self.send_command(module=module_pointer, command="LI")
+      info = f"HHS at device number {device_number} initialized."
+
+    return info
+
+  async def start_temperature_control_at_hhc(
+    self,
+    device_number: int,
+    temp: Union[float, int],
+  ):
+    """Start temperature regulation of specified HHC"""
+
+    await self.check_type_is_hhc(device_number)
+    assert 0 < temp <= 105
+
+    # Ensure proper temperature input handling
+    if isinstance(temp, (float, int)):
+      safe_temp_str = f"{round(temp * 10):04d}"
+    else:
+      safe_temp_str = str(temp)
+
+    return await self.send_command(
+      module=f"T{device_number}",
+      command="TA",  # temperature adjustment
+      ta=safe_temp_str,
+      tb="1800",  # TODO: identify precise purpose?
+      tc="0020",  # TODO: identify precise purpose?
+    )
+
+  async def get_temperature_at_hhc(self, device_number: int) -> dict:
+    """Query current temperatures of both sensors of specified HHC"""
+
+    await self.check_type_is_hhc(device_number)
+
+    request_temperature = await self.send_command(module=f"T{device_number}", command="RT")
+    processed_t_info = [int(x) / 10 for x in request_temperature.split("+")[-2:]]
+
+    return {
+      "middle_T": processed_t_info[0],
+      "edge_T": processed_t_info[-1],
+    }
+
+  async def query_whether_temperature_reached_at_hhc(self, device_number: int):
+    """Stop temperature regulation of specified HHC"""
+
+    await self.check_type_is_hhc(device_number)
+    query_current_control_status = await self.send_command(
+      module=f"T{device_number}", command="QD", fmt="qd#"
+    )
+
+    return query_current_control_status["qd"] == 0
+
+  async def stop_temperature_control_at_hhc(self, device_number: int):
+    """Stop temperature regulation of specified HHC"""
+
+    await self.check_type_is_hhc(device_number)
+
+    return await self.send_command(module=f"T{device_number}", command="TO")
+
+  # -------------- Extra - Probing labware with STAR - making STAR into a CMM --------------
+
 
 class UnSafe:
   """