note

Base project that we're using to talk to thermostats stopped updating. Therfore I have no way to keep etrv2mqtt working on modern deployments. Either stick to period correct Raspbian or use another tool.

etrv2mqtt

MQTT bridge for Danfoss eTRV thermostats. Supports MQTT autodiscovery in Home Assistant.

Device links are supported so Home Assistant sees all sensors as a single logical entity

Installation

Install required packages (for Raspberry pi 3 and later)

sudo apt install bluez-tools bluez bluez-firmware bluez-hcidump pi-bluetooth

Install etrv2mqtt

mkdir -p ~/venv/etrv2mqtt
virtualenv ~/venv/etrv2mqtt
~/venv/etrv2mqtt/bin/pip3 install 'git+https://github.com/keton/etrv2mqtt.git'

Configuration

Minimal config.json example. All parameters are described here.

{
    "$schema": "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/keton/etrv2mqtt/master/etrv2mqtt/schemas/config.schema.json",
    "thermostats": [
        {
            "topic": "Room",
            "address": "00:01:02:03:04:05",
            "secret_key": "01020304050607080910111213141516"
        },
        {
            "topic": "Kitchen",
            "address": "02:03:04:03:04:05",
            "secret_key": "11121304050607080910111213141516"
        }
    ]
}

Getting MAC addresses and secret keys

1. Scan for nearby thermostats: sudo ~/venv/etrv2mqtt/bin/python3 -m libetrv.cli scan
2. Get secret key for a device: ~/venv/etrv2mqtt/bin/python3 -m libetrv.cli device --device-id 01:02:03:04:05:06 retrieve_key. Push physical button on thermostat when prompted.

Running

From terminal (for debugging)

~/venv/etrv2mqtt/bin/etrv2mqtt config.json Configured devices should be automatically added to homeassistant as long as MQTT autodiscovery is enabled.

As systemd service

• Create /etc/systemd/system/etrv2mqtt@YOUR_USER.servicefile with YOUR_USER replaced by the user account that etrv2mqtt is installed to. For example default raspbian user is named pi so the service file name is /etc/systemd/system/etrv2mqtt@pi.service.

• use following template:

  [Unit]
  Description=etrv2mqtt
  After=network-online.target
  
  [Service]
  Type=simple
  User=%i
  Environment="LOGURU_LEVEL=INFO"
  ExecStart=/home/%i/venv/etrv2mqtt/bin/etrv2mqtt /home/%i/etrv2mqtt.config.json
  Restart=on-failure
  RestartSec=10s
  
  [Install]
  WantedBy=multi-user.target
  

• save your config.json as ~/etrv2mqtt.config.json or edit etrv2mqtt@YOUR_USER.service accordingly

• Update systemd configuration and start the service

  sudo systemctl daemon-reload
  sudo systemctl enable etrv2mqtt@YOUR_USER.service
  sudo systemctl start etrv2mqtt@YOUR_USER.service

Home Assistant configuration

By default etrv2mqtt will emit autodiscovery messages so devices will be automatically added to Home Assistant. It will also listen to birth messages and will update thermostat values on HA restarts.

All this requires a bit of configuration on Home Assistant side. Please make sure you have following directives in your configuration.yaml:

mqtt:
  discovery: true
  broker: [YOUR MQTT BROKER]
  birth_message:
    topic: 'hass/status'
    payload: 'online'