External temperature for arbitrary thermostat
JN-Jones opened this issue · comments
I'm using Aqara E1 Thermostats which unfortunately don't have the required entities by the heating control blueprint. There seems to be some way to set an external sensor on the device but zha doesn't support it at all and zigbee2mqtt only with a few tricks. After looking a bit through the blueprint I thought about adding the calculated offset_new on the calculated temperature setpoint (which is probably what internally happens anyways when a thermostat has an offset entity). This is probably not an ideal solution and might lead to a constant readjustment of the temperature setpoint though.
Thank you for your thoughts. Had this discussion with a user some time ago. I will add this to the feature list and will start implementing this when the new version gets its finale state.