home-assistant/core

Min and max temperatures for generic thermostat when added from UI

Strixx76 opened this issue · 4 comments

Strixx76 commented

The problem

When setting up a generic thermostat from the UI you cant set the min and max temperatures. And it seems as the front-end has some defaults for when this is not set, making it impossible to set low (or high) temperatures. I can only set it between 7° and 35° (celcius).
My use case is that I have a heater in my garage preventing it to freeze inside in the winter, and it is set to 3 degrees.

What version of Home Assistant Core has the issue?

core-2024.10.2

What was the last working version of Home Assistant Core?

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What type of installation are you running?

Home Assistant Container

Integration causing the issue

Generic Thermostat

Link to integration documentation on our website

https://www.home-assistant.io/integrations/generic_thermostat

Diagnostics information

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Example YAML snippet

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Anything in the logs that might be useful for us?

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Al-Dek commented

I have the same issue.
if I try to set the temperature below 7°C (in my case, 5°C), I get an error.
After customization in configuration.yaml:

homeassistant:
    customize:
       climate.storage:
          min_temp: 5.0

the GUI allows to set the temperature 5°C (below 7°C), but does not save this value and outputs an error:

Logger: homeassistant.components.websocket_api.http.connection
Source: components/websocket_api/commands.py:287
integration: Home Assistant WebSocket API (documentation, issues)
First occurred: 10:08:14 (3 occurrences)
Last logged: 10:08:25

[140545122431712] Provided temperature 5.000000000000007 is not valid. Accepted range is 7 to 35
Strixx76 commented

I have the same issue. if I try to set the temperature below 7°C (in my case, 5°C), I get an error. After customization in configuration.yaml:

You have to create thermostat in yaml then it will work:

climate:
  - platform: generic_thermostat
    name: Study
    heater: switch.study_heater
    target_sensor: sensor.study_temperature
    min_temp: 1
    max_temp: 15

So the function is there but it is just not implemented in GUI setup of the general thermostat.

Al-Dek commented

You have to create thermostat in yaml then it will work:

Thanks for the "life hack". :)
Since this is a warehouse and I do not plan to change settings often (the goal is the same - to protect against freezing) it is quite possible to go with GUI interface but without GUI settings for now. :-)
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