More special functions for Heating e.g. MAX! Thermostats

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I saw some more people using pimatic or Home-Automation in general for the heating system at home.

So i would like to get some more functions specialized for heating.
I use some MAX! Thermostat and miss to see something like actual temperature in the room (from thermostat) or its opening value in %.
Some top feature was to see and edit the timetable inside the devices, maybe it is very difficult to implement that but it’s one of the most used features for me.
Some of the functions of MAX! are available already but some others are missing.

My wish is:
If any device is supported by pimatic, it should give me the same features to handle like the original software gives me.

Maybe we can split the request in different topics because there are some indipendent functions.

• getting actual values from MAX! (other devices maybe as well)
• using timetables, edit and store in devices (maybe also for all other devices / switches / blends … useful)
• develop a graphilcal user interface for this kind of timers?
• give an easy way to connect things together >> thermostat <> temp-probe (from any other source)

Let me hear / let’s discuss whitch points are useful for others too, witch ones are realistc.
What are you thinking about these things?

Greets Dieter
thanks to all developers: pimatic is a great solution for my home-automation

the max! plugin is awesome !
thanks to @georg90 and @sweetpi again for this nice piece of software

there has been the initial thread on git pimatic/pimatic#127 where the problem with the room temperatures has been discussed somewhere.
as it showed, only the + devices are able to give feedback for the actual room temperatures.
if you’re having the WT+ wall thermostats it should not be a problem. i’m having only one but it shows the temp accordingly. but thats all what it does at pimatic.

the question is, if it’s really necessary to have the schedule for pimatic, but as you said, maybe this could be a general feature for pimatic. don’t know if it’s possible at all.
there’s also this eco switch. don’t know if you have it. but this device can be recreated in pimatic with a buttons device and some rules if you need it.

In my debug-log there are always actual-temperatures of the max! valves:

... '108910': { type: 'Heating Thermostat', address: '108910', serial: 'LEQ11231', name: 'Thermostat 1', 
roomId: 1, comfortTemperature: 21.5, ecoTemperature: 16.5, maxTemperature: 30.5, minTemperature: 4.5, 
temperatureOffset: 3.5, windowOpenTemperature: 12, valve: 0, setpoint: 17, 
battery: 'ok', mode: 'auto', actualTemperature: 22.8 }, 
'108929': { type: 'Heating Thermostat', address: '108929', serial: 'LEQ11232', name: 'Thermostat 1', 
roomId: 2, comfortTemperature: 21.5, ecoTemperature: 16.5, maxTemperature: 30.5, minTemperature: 4.5, 
temperatureOffset: 3.5, windowOpenTemperature: 12, valve: 0, setpoint: 19, 
battery: 'ok', mode: 'auto', actualTemperature: 22.7 } ...

how can I access these values in pimatic?

@DDNRN said:

can I access these values in pimatic?

Add a MaxWallThermostat-Device with the ID of your HeatingThermostat:

    {
      "id": "living-thermo-temp",
      "class": "MaxWallThermostat",
      "name": "WZ Temperature",
      "rfAddress": "108910"
    },

The problem is that the thermostat only sends the actualTemperature if the valve position or setpoint (sometimes) changes. So the temperature is most of the time out of data.

@sweetpi
OK thanks, i’ll try that later.
At the moment I have still problems with freezing pimatic.

i just discovered this here :

the valve state is now shown at the gui.
well done

also the new graph implementation is awesome with the max plugin!

nice! Like the value position!

The valve symbol is quite interesting. My fresh installation doesn’t show these symbols
Any clue what’s the reason?
Thanks.
Peter