Home Assistant Blueprint For Heating

heating.yaml

blueprint:
  name: Heating Control and Window Sensor and boolean
  description: Control your heating with options for group home, if temp is below
    a specific value, set temp, and heating between specific times.
  domain: automation
  input:
    heating:
      name: Climate Device
      description: The climate device to use.
      selector:
        entity:
          domain: climate
    temp_sensor:
      name: Temperature Sensor
      description: Temperature Sensor to check.
      selector:
        entity:
          domain: sensor
          device_class: temperature
    window_sensor_1:
      name: Door or Window Sensor
      description: Check if window or door is open
      selector:
        entity:
          domain: binary_sensor
#because new sensors of aqara           device_class: opening
    groupname:
      name: Person Group
      description: The group of people that have to be home.
      default: []
      selector:
        entity:
          domain: group
    group_presence:
      name: Group Presence
      description: Heat only if Person of Group was present in a given amount of time
      default: 07:30:00
      selector:
        time: {}
    heating_boolean:
      name: Heating Boolean
      description: Check if Boolean is off for automation
      selector:
        entity:
          domain: input_boolean
    min_temp:
      name: Minimum Temp
      description: If temperature is below this value and someone is home, It turns
        heating on.
      default: 15
      selector:
        number:
          min: 11.0
          max: 25.0
          step: 0.1
          mode: slider
    set_temp:
      name: Temperature Target
      description: If the heating turns on, It heats to this target temperature.
      default: 20
      selector:
        number:
          min: 14.0
          max: 25.0
          step: 0.1
          mode: slider
    energy_temp:
      name: Energy Saving Temperature
      description: When away, keep the Energy Saving Temperature 
      default: 17
      selector:
        number:
          min: 14.0
          max: 25.0
          step: 0.1
          mode: slider
    time_after:
      name: Time After
      description: After this time the heating turns on, so it's warm in the morning
      default: 07:30:00
      selector:
        time: {}
    time_before:
      name: Time Before
      description: After this time the heating turns off, This to prevent the heating
        is on in the middle of the night
      default: '21:30:00'
      selector:
        time: {}
  source_url: https://gist.github.com/f45tb00t/eab416909ff6d125d7f3c6170ab017a9
variables:
  set_temp: !input 'set_temp'
  energy_temp: !input 'energy_temp'
  window_sensor_1: !input 'window_sensor_1'
  heating_boolean: !input 'heating_boolean'
trigger:
- platform: homeassistant
  event: start
- platform: event
  event_type: automation_reloaded
- platform: time_pattern
  minutes: /1
condition:
  - condition: state
    entity_id: !input 'heating_boolean'
    state: 'off'
action:
- choose:
  - conditions:
    - condition: numeric_state
      entity_id: !input 'temp_sensor'
      below: !input 'min_temp'
    - condition: time
      before: !input 'time_before'
      after: !input 'time_after'
    - condition: state
      entity_id: !input 'window_sensor_1'
      state: 'off'
    - condition: not
      conditions:
      - condition: state
        entity_id: !input 'groupname'
        for: !input 'group_presence'
        state: not_home
    sequence:
    - service: climate.set_temperature
      data:
        entity_id: !input 'heating'
        hvac_mode: heat
        temperature: '{{ set_temp }}'
  - conditions:
    - condition: state
      entity_id: !input 'window_sensor_1'
      state: 'on'
    sequence:
    - service: climate.set_hvac_mode
      data:
        hvac_mode: 'off'
        entity_id: !input 'heating'
  default:
  - service: climate.set_temperature
    data:
      entity_id: !input 'heating'
      temperature: '{{ energy_temp }}'
mode: single

I've changed the code a bit to my needs.
Instead of only heating when a person is at home, with this blueprint its possible to even heat the house/flat, when you are away for x hours.
This works for example when you go shopping for x hours in the winter, so when you come back the flat/house is still warm and you don't have to wait until it's warm again

• Added (27.08.2021) Due to issues with the energy saving function using prior set temperature, I've implemented the option to set the energy saving temperature.

Added some other things. Now we have

• Group presence detection
• Group delayed presence detection (e.g if you leave the house to go shopping and you won't have your house cool down)
• Window Sensor (if open, turn of heating)
• new boolean check (to not interfere with other settings you might have done via voice commands. e.g. heat room x for x minutes to temperature z)

To achieve different things, I've added some if-else statements as well. If anyone else is using this and you find a bug, please let me know.

this is good. thanks. but i am having an issue in that it turns itself off if the 1minute auto re-trigger runs and it is over the min_temp number (but not got up to the set_temp level).
so for example. I want it to start heating if it is less than 17degrees and heat it up to 21. It starts all well and good, but if it say hit 17.5 degrees in a few mins, the next time it runs, it turns off again. It never goes up to the 21degrees temp that is desirable.

I did fork it and make a few small changes, the only one that could have caused this was

    sequence:
    - service: climate.set_preset_mode
      data:
        entity_id: !input 'heating'
        preset_mode: none

I changed to

   - service: climate.turn_on
      data:
        entity_id: !input 'heating'

because the heating didn't ever turn on with the preset mode service. I'm not sure what it is really supposed to do.

@thefunkygibbon Which thermostats do you have? If it's not Eurotronic Spririt (Z-Wave Version) that yours does not support that. For me it's working.

I needed to add the

    - service: climate.set_preset_mode
      data:
        entity_id: !input 'heating'
        preset_mode: none

because the default would be

  - service: climate.set_preset_mode
    data:
      entity_id: !input 'heating'
      preset_mode: Energy heat

So when triggered it would not change the energy heating back to none.

I gave all Eurotronic Z-Wave thermostats back to the seller, as I had a lot of trouble with them. I've replaced them with the zigbee Versions. The Zigbee Versions have less functionality. See below:

hvac_modes: off, heat
min_temp: 5
max_temp: 30
current_temperature: 21.5
temperature: 17
hvac_action: idle
system_mode: [4]/heat
occupied_cooling_setpoint: 2600
occupied_heating_setpoint: 1700
pi_heating_demand: 0
unoccupied_cooling_setpoint: 1600
friendly_name: Heizung_Badezimmer thermostat
supported_features: 1

So basically there is no energy heating, but the v4 still works for me

ah ok. i'm using with a 'generic thermostat' (which connects a thermometer i have with a smartplug).
personally i'm not bothered about the energy heating aspect, i'm ok with it just being 'off' until i need it on. I'll look in to trying to make some more tweaks to it, and if needs be i guess i can just set the min/max temp to be the same. although i guess that will make for a lot of turning on and off which prob isn't good for any of the hardware involved.

Due to the fact that the maintainer changed the behavior onwards from Home Assistant 2022.04. I needed to remove some settings, as the Blueprint and therefore the automation did not work anymore.

Should be affected by this: home-assistant/core#68394