calc_setpoint

What Does it Do?

calc_setpoint adjusts the setpoint of your climate device based on a custom temperature sensor.

Many thermostats are not positioned in an ideal location to sense the temperature of the rooms you care about. This adjusts the setpoint according to that measured temperature and its difference from the temperature measured at the Thermostat.

calc_setpoint can be used against any temperature sensor.

This could be a single sensor for a single room.

Or, you can set up a min/max sensor to average the temperature in your home.

Or, you can use calc_conditional_avg to only average the temperatures of occupied rooms.

This app also supports using a separate away temperature.

Using it!

This works as an "app" in pyscript. Therefore, pyscript is required and configuration is done through Home Assistant's configuration.yaml file.

You can see a full configuration example in this repository.

These are the configuration keys:

key	description	example	default
sensor_temp (required)	the temperature sensor to serve as the reference to compare the actual temperature to. Usually, this is your thermostat's temperature sensor.	climate.hvac.current_temperature	No Default
actual_temp (required)	the temperature sensor to adjust the setpoint to. This is a sensor for a single room in your home, or a sensor that averages many sensors together	sensor.avg_occupied_temperature	No Default
occupied (optional)	A sensor that should have a state of on when the desired_temp should be used	binary_sensor.occupied	No Default
desired_temp (required)	An entity to provide the desired temperature for the thermostat. Do not use your thermostat's setpoint as this app will change the setpoint to compenstate for temperature differences	input_number.desired_temperature	No Default
away_temp (optional)	Same as desired_temp but used when occupied is not on	input_number.away_temperature	No Default
climate_entity (required)	The entity_id of the climate device with the setpoint that should be managed	climate.hvac	No Default

Requirements

• PyScript custom_component

Install

Install this script

# get to your homeassistant config directory
cd /config

cd pyscript
mkdir -p apps/
cd apps
git clone https://github.com/dlashua/pyscript-calc_setpoint calc_setpoint

Edit configuration.yaml

pyscript:
  apps:
    calc_setpoint:
      - sensor_temp: climate.hvac.current_temperature
        actual_temp: sensor.avg_occupied_temperature
        occupied: binary_sensor.occupied
        desired_temp: input_number.desired_temperature
        away_temp: input_number.away_temperature
        climate_entity: climate.hvac

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