homebridge-bosch-room-climate-control
v1.2.2
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Control multiple Bosch Smart Home devices through room climate control of the BSHC API
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homebridge-bosch-room-climate-control
This Homebridge plugin implements room climate control in HomeKit through a virtual thermostat. Events from the Bosch Smart Home Controller (BSHC) are consumed via long polling, which means that all changes also from outside of HomeKit (e.g., physical control of a room thermostat or radiator thermostat, updates made via the Bosch Smart Home App, a change of the room temperature, etc.) are immediately reflected and updated in HomeKit, without a manual refresh or accessory update.
Note: This plugin has only been tested manually with Radiator Thermostats II and is at an early stage where unexpected behavior may occur
Why not use the built-in HomeKit integration?
The official and built-in HomeKit integration for Bosch Smart Home thermostats is functionally limited. Currently it is not possible to control thermostats that are grouped into a room (room climate control), to switch between manual and automatic mode, or to turn the heating on and off.
Getting Started
- Set the system password and the IP address of the BSHC via the Homebridge UI
- Press the pairing button
- Start the plugin (restart Homebridge)
Settings
Features
- Switch mode between manual and automatic
- Mode
AUTO
sets the operation mode to automatic (using the defined schedules for the room climate) - Mode
HEAT
sets the operation mode to manual (heating to the defined target temperature)
- Mode
- Pause heating
- Mode
OFF
sets the room control mode to off (pauses heating, setting the target temperature to 5°C)
- Mode
- Set the target temparature
- While in
AUTO
mode: set until the next scheduled target temperature change - While in
HEAT
mode: set until the next manual target temperature or operation mode change
- While in
- Update measured temperature changes in realtime through events from the BSHC
- Reflect operation mode or target temperature changes immediately through events from the BSHC, also when set from outside (e.g., through the Bosch Smart Home app, or on a physical device)
- Add/remove new/unavilable room climate control devices automatically in periodic check
- Set devices to unavailable if state cannot be fetched in periodic syncs, or if the current temperature is not available
Note for scenes and automations
In case you want to configure scenes or automations that switch between the thermostat modes (auto/heat/off), please make sure to use a third party app for the configuration – like Eve for Matter & HomeKit – and omit setting the target temperature in the automation.
- This will make sure that the scene detects the correct state, ashe BSHC will apply your scheduled temperature changes and the scene will show as inactive/active unexpectedly
- This will prevent unexpected behavior, as the target temperature cannot be set on Bosch thermostats that are turned off, but the automation will try to apply it
Credits
- bosch-smart-home-bridge (API client)
- Bosch Smart Home Controller Local API (API documentation)
Contributing
Please consider opening a PR if you have suggestions for improvements or spot a potential bug