Confused about the thermostat behaviour

[2fst4u]

Hi, so far this is awesome, it's just what I'm looking for.

I'm a bit confused about how the thermostat behaves when using it with another climate entity (in my case a heat pump).

When I turn off the versatile thermostat, my heat pump also turns off which I would expect. When I turn on the versatile thermostat, my heat pump turns on too. Great!

But when both are off and I go to turn on the heat pump manually, either in home assistant, or from its own app, or with the physical remote, then the versatile thermostat also turns on and starts interfering with the settings. Is there any way to prevent this? If the heat pump is manually turned on I'd like the versatile thermostat to remain off so that the manual settings can be used. The reason for this is not everyone in my household has the need or desire to use home assistant to control the settings and if they manually turn on the heat pump then they'd prefer to just have that manual setting remain what it is set to.

Is this possible at all?

[jmcollin78]

Hello @2fst4u ,

But when both are off and I go to turn on the heat pump manually, either in home assistant, or from its own app, or with the physical remote, then the versatile thermostat also turns on and starts interfering with the settings. Is there any way to prevent thisc

This is normal. What we want is that VTherm follows the state on the underlying climate. We want that because many people want to continue to interact directly with the device without having to open HA. So the VTherm is listening to the underlying state and adapts itself to the last known state. There is no way to prevent this as it is a core feature of the 'over climate' VTherm type.

What you can do is set the preset to manual (no preset in fact) so that you can interact directly with your heatpump without interference of the VTherm.

[2fst4u]

@jmcollin78 I see in another issue it's mentioned that the vtherm temperature should change when you change the underlying thermostat temperature, e.g. with the heat pump remote. Is that correct? Because that doesn't seem to be working for me.

[jmcollin78]

Yes this is designed like this: if you change directly on the AC with the remote for example, the VTherm should go into manual mode (no preset) and target should be copied.

[2fst4u]

There appears to be an issue there because this isn't happening. I don't know if it's just me or not. When I use the remote the vtherm target doesn't follow the manual setting. If this worked then I'd be happy with the behaviour of regulation.

[2fst4u]

Should I open an issue to track debugging of this?

[jmcollin78]

I will dot it for you. I will do some tests with mine to try to reproduce. Maybe something have been broken.

[jmcollin78]

Fixed by https://github.com/jmcollin78/versatile_thermostat/releases/tag/6.3.4.beta5