Better Thermostat

Important Notice: Consider this software as unfinished as it has not reached version 1.0. Don't select master on download, check show beta version install the latest one.

Requirements

• Minimum required Home Assistant version: 2022.8.0 (Latest tested version: 2022.9.4)

Companion UI

We've created a companion UI element which can display more information that the default thermostat element in Home Assistant. Check it out via HACS: better-thermostat-ui-card

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Featureset

This integration brings some smartness to your connected radiator thermostats setup:

• Uses a temperature sensor far away from the radiators to measure the real room temperature
• Makes your TRVs fully compatible with Google Home
• Let your windows disable your heating (avoids programing this via automations)
• Your weather forcast provider will turn your heat on/off
• Or an outside air temperature sensor can do this as well
• Does some valve-maintenance automatically, to avoid that they will get stuck closed over summer

Which hardware do we support?

We support all thermostats which are compatible with Home Assistant as long as they are shown up as a climate entity

At this time following models are tested and recommended:

Vendor	Product Name	Product Number	HA Manufacturer	HA Model	Whitelabel	Support local calibration
Eurotronic	Spirit Zigbee	SPZB0001	Eurotronic	Spirit Zigbee wireless heater thermostat (SPZB0001)		YES
Moes	ZigBee3.0 Thermostat	SEA801‑Zigbee	Saswell	Thermostatic radiator valve (SEA801-Zigbee/SEA802-Zigbee)	- HiHome WZB‑TRVL - Hama 00176592 - RTX ZB‑RT1	YES
Moes	ZigBee3.0 Thermostat	SEA802‑Zigbee	Saswell	Thermostatic radiator valve (SEA801-Zigbee/SEA802-Zigbee)	- HiHome WZB‑TRVL - Hama 00176592 - RTX ZB‑RT1	YES
TuYa	TS0601	TS0601_thermostat	TuYa	Radiator valve with thermostat (TS0601_thermostat)	- Moes HY368 - Moes HY369RT - SHOJZJ 378RT - Silvercrest TVR01	YES
TuYa	TV02-Zigbee	TV02-Zigbee	TuYa	Thermostat radiator valve (TV02-Zigbee)	- Moes TV01-ZB - Tesla Smart TSL-TRV-TV01ZG - Unknown/id3.pl GTZ08	NO
Siterwell	Radiator Thermostat	GS361A‑H04				NO

Howto Setup

This custom component uses the config flow in Home Assistant.

After you installed this integration and restart HA, you can add it via the integrations page in Home Assistant.

Click Settings > Devices & Services > Integrations > Add Integration > Better Thermostat

IMPORTANT: the weather and outdoor_sensor are not required, but you need one of them if you want to use this function, if not remove them

Some nice to know config tipps for the configuration.yaml

Example Window/Door - Sensor config

group:
  livingroom_windows:
    name: Livingroom Windows
    icon: mdi:window-open-variant
    all: false
    entities:
      - binary_sensor.openclose_1
      - binary_sensor.openclose_2
      - binary_sensor.openclose_3

Combine multiple TRV to one (Group)

Install the HACS climate_group from @daenny

As each TRV has an individual local_temperature and must be individually calibrated, you need to create a better_thermostat entity for each TRV and then group them:

Example:

climate:
  - platform: climate_group
    name: "TRV - Office"
    temperature_unit: C
    entities:
      - climate.bt_trv_office_1
      - climate.bt_trv_office_2

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🧙 Maintainers

@KartoffelToby

@RubenKelevra

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‎‍💻 Code Contributors

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@RubenKelevra
@bruvv
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