Manual Heat

[sparment]

When my heater is set to "Manual Heat" in the Intellicenter system and activated, the Water Heater entity in Home Assistant still shows off. Everything works fine if I don't use the "Manual Heat" option in Intellicenter, but I'd like to continue to have the Manual Heat option on - I use it for my spa. Can the Water Entity be set to show on when "Manual Heat" is activated? Or perhaps add a separate entity for the "Manual Heat"?

[dwradcliffe]

Hmm interesting. I don't have a manual heat option. Can you send me the diagnostic debug info so I can see if there's something I can do about this?

[sparment]

Thanks for the offer to look. Attached are the diagnostics for three scenarios.

Diagnostics with the spa off and heater off:
off.json

Diagnostics with the spa on and Manual Heat on (heater element in Home Assistant shows off):
on.json

Diagnositcs with the spa on and Spa Heater on (heater element in Home Assistant shows on):
on-on.json

I see the difference in the following lines.

With the spa off and and heater off:
{
"objnam": "B1202",
"objtype": "BODY",
"subtype": "SPA",
"properties": {
"SNAME": "Spa",
"PARENT": "M0102",
"LSTTMP": "80",
"HEATER": "00000",
"VOL": "1000",
"LOTMP": "99",
"STATUS": "OFF",
"HTMODE": "0"
}

With the spa on and manual heat on:
{
"objnam": "B1202",
"objtype": "BODY",
"subtype": "SPA",
"properties": {
"SNAME": "Spa",
"PARENT": "M0102",
"LSTTMP": "71",
"HEATER": "00000",
"VOL": "1000",
"LOTMP": "99",
"STATUS": "ON",
"HTMODE": "1"
}

With the spa on and heat on (heater element in Home Assistant shows on):
{
"objnam": "B1202",
"objtype": "BODY",
"subtype": "SPA",
"properties": {
"SNAME": "Spa",
"PARENT": "M0102",
"LSTTMP": "71",
"HEATER": "H0001",
"VOL": "1000",
"LOTMP": "99",
"STATUS": "ON",
"HTMODE": "1",
"ACT1": "65535",
"ACT2": "65535",
"ACT3": "65535",
"ACT4": "65535",
"FILTER": "C0001",
"HITMP": "103",
"HNAME": "B1202",
"HTSRC": "H0001",
"LISTORD": "2",
"MANHT": "00000",
"MANUAL": "65535",
"MODE": "2",
"OBJNAM": "B1202",
"PRIM": "65535",
"SEC": "65535",
"SETPT": "99",
"SETTMP": "99",
"SHARE": "B1101",
"SRCTYP": "GENERIC",
"STATIC": "OFF",
"TEMP": "70"
}

[dwradcliffe]

I haven't looked at your full debug data yet, but from what you extracted I'm guessing the logic would be:
if HTMODE == 1 and no heater assigned (HEATER == 00000) then it is in "manual heat mode"

I think the simplest way to show this would be a separate binary sensor for manual heat to show when it is enabled. I need to spend a bit more time looking though because we'll need to find a way to determine that manual heat is even an option.

[sparment]

Thanks - please let me know if I can help with troubleshooting or trying any code out.

[dwradcliffe]

Can you post some screenshots of what the app looks like to enable manual heat? I'm still struggling to understand what this is a little bit 😅

[sparment]

It's in the general settings section...

[sparment]

@dwradcliffe have you had a chance to look at this? I'm happy to help with any troubleshooting. Thanks!