WindowGuard Climate Control

WindowGuard_Climate_Control.yaml

blueprint:
  name: WindowGuard Climate Control
  description: This blueprint intelligently manages your heating or cooling systems based on window sensor activity, conserving energy by suspending climate control when a window is open and restoring settings after user-defined delays for opening and closing the window.
  domain: automation
  input:
    window_sensor:
      name: Window Sensor
      description: Select the sensor that monitors your windows. Useful for controlling heating or cooling based on window status.
      selector:
        entity:
          domain: binary_sensor
          device_class: window
    target_climate:
      name: Climate Control Entity
      description: Choose the climate control entity to manage, like your heater, AC, or thermostat.
      selector:
        entity:
          domain: climate
    window_open_delay:
      name: Delay After Window Opens
      description: Time to wait after the window opens before suspending climate control.
      default: 0
      selector:
        number:
          min: 0
          max: 300
          unit_of_measurement: seconds
    window_close_delay:
      name: Delay After Window Closes
      description: Time to wait after the window closes before restoring climate control settings.
      default: 0
      selector:
        number:
          min: 0
          max: 300
          unit_of_measurement: seconds

trigger:
  - platform: state
    entity_id: !input window_sensor

action:
  - choose:
      - conditions:
          - condition: state
            entity_id: !input window_sensor
            state: "on"
        sequence:
          - delay: !input window_open_delay
          - service: climate.turn_off
            target:
              entity_id: !input target_climate
          - service: scene.create
            data:
              scene_id: "{{ target_climate | replace('.', '_') }}_snapshot"
              snapshot_entities: !input target_climate

      - conditions:
          - condition: state
            entity_id: !input window_sensor
            state: "off"
        sequence:
          - delay: !input window_close_delay
          - service: scene.turn_on
            target:
              entity_id: "scene.{{ target_climate | replace('.', '_') }}_snapshot"

Hi there. I’ve added this blueprint and my thermostats do turn off. They also turn back on but also the ones that were off before the window was open would turn back on. Can you help fix this please? I need those to stay off. Is there also a way to add a delay to the trigger? Thanks much!! Otherwise it’s a great blueprint!

Hi @andreeanae, I just added the ability to add a timer between 0s and 300s.

I did not experience any problems with switching on and off with the automation. You can look at the execution history of the automation created by the blueprint to see exactly where this problem is coming from.
However, I ran into a problem with the Rika integration where sometimes the oven would go from off to auto and after 1 minute the oven would go back to off. This 'debouncing' is an integration issue and not related to the blueprint.