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Turn Home Assistant into a thermostat |
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Thermostat |
Heat Control is a thermostat implemented in Home Assistant. It uses a sensor and a switch connected to a heater under the hood. If the measured temperature is cooler then the target temperature, the heater will be turned on and turned off when required temperature is reached.
# Example configuration.yaml entry
thermostat:
platform: heat_control
name: Study
heater: switch.study_heater
target_sensor: sensor.study_temperature
min_temp: 15
max_temp: 21
target_temp: 15
Configuration variables:
- name (Required): Name of thermostat
- heater (Required:
entity_id
for heater switch, must be a toggle device. - target_sensor (Required):
entity_id
for a temperature sensor, target_sensor.state must be temperature. - min_temp (Optional): Set minimum set point available (default: 7)
- max_temp (Optional): Set maximum set point available (default: 35)
- target_temp (Required): Set intital target temperature. Failure to set this variable will result in target temperature being set to null on startup.
- ac_mode (Optional): Set the switch specified in the heater option to be treated as a cooling device instead of a heating device.