Change heat mode in Home Assistant to conform to HomeKit

[irlkitcom]

I use Home Assistant to integrate everything in HomeKit and it only supports Off, Heat, Cool, and Auto. I feel this change wouldn't affect the integration negatively.

[cryptk]

I'm not sure what exactly you are asking me to change? Can you give an example of what the integration does now and what you would prefer it do instead?

[irlkitcom]

From memory of looking over the code, don’t have access to it at the moment, instead of using STATE_ON use STATE_HEAT.

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[agodinij]

I have the same situation. When you export the Heater thermostat to Homekit it’s treating it as a Water Heater with no Off Button. If it was catagorized as a thermostat Homekit would then show the Off/Heat/Cool. Although cool would do nothing. At this point it’s just always on. Hope that helps.

[cryptk]

The states that are available for a water heater are documented here: https://developers.home-assistant.io/docs/core/entity/water-heater#states

While there is some room for enhancement here, especially with hopefully supporting heat pumps and such soon, and giving some more descriptive states, there is no option for "STATE_HEAT", that isn't a constant defined anywhere within Home Assistant

I'll leave this open for now, there is a chance things might start playing more nicely once I fix the fact that the integration is using STATE_ON which isn't actually a "valid" state for a water heater in Home Assistant.