EQ3 Bluetooth Smart Thermostat

A modernized temporary replacement for the native Home Assistant component.

Home Assistant Forum Post

Installation

Option 1: HACS Link

1. Click
2. Restart Home Assistant

Option 2: HACS

1. Or HACS > Integrations > ⋮ > Custom Repositories
2. Repository: paste the url of this repo
3. Category: Integration
4. Click Add
5. Close Custom Repositories modal
6. Click + EXPLORE & DOWNLOAD REPOSITORIES
7. Search for dbuezas_eq3btsmart
8. Click Download
9. Restart Home Assistant

Option 2: Manual copy

1. Copy the dbuezas_eq3btsmart folder inside custom_components of this repo to /config/custom_components in your Home Assistant instance
2. Restart Home Assistant

Adding devices

1. Go to Settings > Integrations
2. Either wait for automatic discovery,

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or click + ADD INTEGRATION and search for dbuezas_eq3btsmart

3. Addition will succeed immediately, so give the entity some minutes to connect to the thermostat

Pairing issues

See here https://github.com/rytilahti/python-eq3bt#pairing

Device entities

Setting schedules

The internal schedules of the Auto mode can be set via a service. Use Devices or Areas as target, not entities.

Viewing schedules

There is a button to fetch the schedules from the thermostats. These are shown as attributes of that button.

Setting Vacation Mode / Away Mode

There is a service to set up Away mode (vacation) with an end date/time, and target temperature.

Use Devices or Areas as target, not entities.

To easily set all thermostats to away you can combine it with an input timedate helper and a script and add them to lovelace like this:

Device options

Most notably, you can select a specific bluetooth adapter, or limit to local ones.

Differences with the original component:

• It works in HA version > 2022.7
• Support for BTProxy thanks to @ignisf (make sure you configure active: true in the BTProxy).
• Supports auto discovery
• Supports adding via config flow (UI)
• Fixes setting operation mode
• Allows to turn off by setting temp to 4.5°
• Retries (10 times) when you change a thermostat attribute.
• [x] Push instead of Pull. It updates on bluetooth advertisement instead of polling every x minutes (seems to generate less unsuccessful tries)
• Connections are persistent (this may or may not reduce the battery life, but it makes the thermostats more responsive)
• Fully uses asyncio (less resource intensive)
• Current Temperature updates immediately, regardless of when the bluetooth connection is made. The component will apply the change as soon as it can connect with the device.
• Service to fetch heating schedules and serial inside the thermostat
• Only one concurrent request per thermostat
• Service to set the heating schedules
• [ ] Support for installing via yaml
• [ ] Support pairing while adding entity
• All features of the thermostat are exposed as entities
• Bluetooth adapter, scan interval, etc are configurable.

Previous Art

This is heavily based on https://github.com/rytilahti/python-eq3bt and https://github.com/home-assistant/core/tree/dev/homeassistant/components/eq3btsmart and it should ideally be two PRs instead. Unfortunately, the changes go too deep and remove support for the CLI and other backends. Therefore, here's a self contained custom component instead.