Question - cooling support for floorheating & convector radiators in home assistant

[tkrns]

Hey guys,

First of all, thank you for creating this awesome home assistant plugin. Using it for a while now and is working really good.

My floor heating and radiator controller is also supported by tech controllers and has a cooling option when in a household that has a heating pomp that also supports cooling. Since a few weeks I got one, but that leaves me with one question how implement this in home assistant, as far a I know the default thermostat card that we use only supports heating mode and off mode, how should this work when I also like to cool my house in the summer?

Like to discuss this with you, and maybe I can help you guys work on this, as it should be available in the tech controller API, but maybe not yet on the component side in home assistant?

Let me know your thoughts..

[daroga0002]

I have checked and thermostat feature currently is just supporting two methods:
https://github.com/mariusz-ostoja-swierczynski/tech-controllers/blob/9cd751298aa69e0b8129b9ac775d7fe1c5361b33/custom_components/tech/climate.py#L38C1-L38C13

adding cooling shouldnt be big thing, the only case to investigate is to check how API will change on emodul (tech) side.

As first step I would ask you to gather current outputs from API as in https://github.com/mariusz-ostoja-swierczynski/tech-controllers/blob/main/CONTRIBUTING.md#getting-json-data-from-emodul

then change to Cooling on emodul web UI (if it is possible it should be visible there) and then regather again API outputs.

Then it will be point to start working on code updates (contribution is welcome)