KartoffelToby/better_thermostat 1.9.1

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A follow-up to 1.9 that fixes the things you told us about: Thermostats that looked "unavailable" while they were working fine, device automations that refused to run, and preset temperatures that forgot themselves on restart. Plus one new setting a lot of people have asked for. Also @QuenotteKst helped to fix the Eurotronic Spirit.

Nothing to do after updating. Your existing setup keeps working — no reconfiguration, no migration steps.

🌡️ Set your own minimum and maximum temperature

• New Target minimum temperature and Target maximum temperature settings, in both the initial setup and the options screen.
• Until now the range came from whatever your thermostats reported, which is often 5–35 °C whether you want it or not. You can now cap it yourself — for example 16–22 °C in a nursery.
• Leave either one on Auto to keep the old behaviour.
• Setting the same value for both is allowed, if you want a fixed temperature.
• If you pick a minimum above the maximum, the setup screen says so clearly instead of saving something odd, and your thermostat list stays on screen while you correct it.

📡 Eurotronic Spirit and other Z-Wave valves

• Eurotronic Spirit (Z-Wave) works again. It is recognised properly and direct valve control is offered for it, the same way it already was for the Aeotec ZWA021.

• Thermostats running in their manufacturer's direct valve mode report a blank state to Home Assistant even while they are perfectly healthy. Better Thermostat used to read that as "device is gone" and would:

  • raise a repair notice about a missing entity,
  • skip the thermostat in the control cycle,
  • and wait for it forever at startup.

  All of that is fixed — a thermostat in valve mode counts as available.

🤖 Automations and the automation editor

The device-based automation blocks added in 1.9 were rejected by Home Assistant's own validation. They work now.

• Triggers, conditions and actions built in the visual automation editor save and run.
• Conditions like "is heating" / "is off" read the thermostat's real state instead of always coming back false.
• The high humidity trigger reads the humidity Better Thermostat actually publishes.
• Building an automation on a device that has no Better Thermostat on it gives a clear message instead of a silent failure.

🎚️ Presets remember their temperatures

• Preset temperatures (Eco, Comfort, Sleep, …) survive a Home Assistant restart instead of falling back to defaults.
• If a preset was active when you restarted, the room goes back to that preset's temperature — and stays within the min/max range you set.
• The preset dropdown no longer offers a preset that nothing runs on.

🔒 Child lock

• A thermostat that never had the child-lock option saved counts as unlocked. Before, a missing setting was treated as neither locked nor unlocked, and changes made on the device itself were quietly ignored.

🚦 Clearer warnings, quieter logs

• A thermostat that is missing is reported once, when it goes away — not over and over for as long as it is gone.
• A thermostat that never shows up at startup is now reported at all. Previously Better Thermostat waited for it in silence, indefinitely.
• Saving the options screen reloads the thermostat once instead of twice.
• With several Better Thermostats set up, saving one no longer makes the others wait their turn.
• Removing a thermostat cleans up fully after itself.

⚙️ Setup screen

• Correcting one mistake in the form no longer clears the other choices you already made.
• New message when you continue without picking a thermostat, instead of an unhelpful generic error.
• The options screen shows proper error messages — it previously had none of its own.

New Contributors

• @QuenotteKst made their first contribution in #2228

Full Changelog: 1.9.0...1.9.1