home-assistant-bradford-white-connect

This custom component for Home Assistant adds support for managing your water heater via the Bradford White Connect platform.

Installation instructions

Using HACS

The easiest way to install this integration is with HACS. First, install HACS if you don't have it yet.
Click on the link below or search for Bradford White Connect in HACS.

Click download and after this, restart Home Assistant.

Manual installation

1. Update Home Assistant to version 2021.12 or newer.
2. Clone this repository.
3. Copy the custom_components/bradford_white_connect folder into your Home Assistant's custom_components folder.

Configuring

1. Add Bradford White Connect integration via UI. Using My Home Assistant service, you can click on:
   
   Or add it to Home Assistant by going to Configuration -> Devices & Services, clicking + Add Integration and searching for Bradford White Connect.
2. Enter Bradford White Connect cloud hostname, account id, username, and password.
3. The integration will discover appliance on local network(s).
4. If an appliance is not automatically discovered, but is registered to the cloud account, user is prompted to enter IPv4 address of the appliance.
5. If you want to use integration with air conditioner unit(s), please select the checkbox on Advanced settings page.

Supported entities

This custom component creates following entities for each discovered water heater:

Platform	Description
water_heater	Controller water heater
sensor	Resistance energy usage for the current year
sensor	Heat pump energy usage for the previous year

Troubleshooting

If there are problems with the integration setup, advanced debug logging can be activated via the Advanced settings page.

Once activated, logs can be seen by:

Select Load Full Home Assistant Log to see all debug mode logs. Please include as much logs as possible if you open an issue.

Debug logging can be activated without going through setup process:

On entry page, paste following content:

service: logger.set_level
data:
  custom_components.bradford_white_connect: DEBUG

It is possible to activate debug logging on Home Assistent start. To do this, open Home Assistant's configuration.yaml file on your machine, and add following to logger configuration:

logger:
  # Begging of lines to add
  logs:
    custom_components.bradford_white_connect: debug
  # End of lines to add

Home Assistant needs to be restarted after this change.

Notice

Bradford White Connect and other names are trademarks of their respective owners.