Home Assistant - Dual Mode Thermostat for AC unit

This component allows adding a heat/cool mode to any climate entity which has both heat and cool but not heat/cool. Switching the underlying climate entity between the two modes is done automatically based on the temperature reported by the entity. All other climate modes are reported as-is and should work the same as they do for the underlying climate entity.

This component is based on ha-dualmodegeneric which is itself a fork of the mainline generic_thermostat.

Installation (HACS) - Recommended

Have HACS installed, this will allow you to easily update
Add https://github.com/EiNSTeiN-/ha-dualmodegeneric as a custom repository as Type: Integration
Click install under "Dual-Mode Thermostat for AC unit", restart your instance.

Installation (Manual)

Download this repository as a ZIP (green button, top right) and unzip the archive
Copy /custom_components/dualmode_generic to your <config_dir>/custom_components/ directory
- You will need to create the custom_components folder if it does not exist
- On Hassio the final location will be /config/custom_components/dualmode_generic
- On Hassbian the final location will be /home/homeassistant/.homeassistant/custom_components/dualmode_generic

Configuration

Add the following to your configuration file

Example Config

climate:
  - platform: dualmode_ac
    name: My Thermostat
    unique_id: climate.my_thermostat
    climate_entity_id: climate.my_disappointing_ac_unit
    target_temp_high: 21
    target_temp_low: 19
    min_cycle_duration:
        minutes: 20
    cold_tolerance: 1
    hot_tolerance: 1
    initial_hvac_mode: heat_cool

Leave target_temp_high and target_temp_low empty to use the previously set value when the entity is reloaded. Otherwise the configured value will be used and previous value ignored.

Reporting an Issue

Setup your logger to print debug messages for this component using:

logger:
  default: info
  logs:
    custom_components.dualmode_generic: debug