sebirdman/hass_traeger

Setting for temperature units

doctorkb opened this issue · 6 comments

doctorkb commented

User story

As a user outside the United States who uses degrees Fahrenheit to cook but degrees Celsius for weather,
I can select temperature units for the display / setting cards
so that they can differ from the ones used in other parts of the Home Assistant interface and match the ones used in the Traeger app.

njobrien1006 commented

https://community.home-assistant.io/t/override-system-wide-settings-for-temperature/193140/24
https://community.home-assistant.io/t/allow-unit-system-to-be-overridden-on-a-per-sensor-basis/112766

I switched my grill to C and continued to get F in HA. Switched HA to C and everything showed C correctly. Issue is related to trying to split C & F within HA.

IMO this as a HA issue/request. Not an issue of the integration.

doctorkb commented

It may be, but I thought it was how the integration was dealing with the display of the value. I'll admit I'm not familiar with how HA structures these things.

It seems odd that an integration can't force certain units if it chooses to override HA's default.

njobrien1006 commented

The API is sending a C or F value as defined by the grill's set unit. I attempted to remove the unit from my HA but, it seems to be required for the climate entity.

Since your HA instance is set for C it converts the F your grill is providing to C based on your FrontEnd settings.

Based on the links provided, I don't know that there is an easy fix for your desired operation.

sebirdman commented

I agree with @njobrien1006 here. I think you should open a request in HA

fatbob01 commented

@sebirdman most temperature sensors in HA support this change, but it doesn't seem to be available for Traeger for some reason...