homeassistant-easycontrols

Helios EasyControls (2.x) Modbus TCP/IP integration for Home Assistant. The integration won't work with EasyControls 3.x version devices.

Installation

You can install this integration via HACS or manually.

HACS

This integration is included in HACS. Search for the Easy Controls integration and choose install. Reboot Home Assistant and configure the 'Helios Easy Controls' integration via the integrations page or press the blue button below.

Manual

Copy the custom_components/easycontrols to your custom_components folder. Reboot Home Assistant and configure the 'Helios Easy Controls' integration via the integrations page or press the blue button below.

Setup

• Login to device's configuration page.
• Tick Modbus activated checkbox under Configuration/Device/Building control system menu item.
• Set Minimum fan speed to 0 under Configuration/Fan/Fan configuration menu item.

Features

The integration adds the following entities and services to Home Assistant:

• Fan

  The ventilation unit can be controlled by the fan entity. Supported features:

  • turning on/off
  • settings speed
  • setting preset (auto, party, stand-by mode)

• Sensors

  • Pre-heater and after-heater related sensors:
    • Preheater operation hours
    • Preheater percentage
    • Afterheater operation hours
    • Afterheater percentage
  • Temperature sensors:
    • Outside air temperature
    • Supply air temperature
    • Extract air temperature
    • Outgoing air temperature
  • Humidity sensors:
    • Extract air relative humidity
  • External sensors:
    • FTF Humidity
    • FTF Temperature
    • CO₂
    • VOC
  • Operation related sensors:
    • Fan speed percentage
    • Fan stage
    • Extract air fan rpm
    • Extract air fan stage
    • Supply air fan rpm
    • Supply air fan stage
  • Binary sensors:
    • Bypass
    • Filter change required
  • Text sensors:
    • Errors
    • Warnings
    • Information
  • Additional computed sensors which values are not provided by the ventilation unit:
    • Airflow rate (approximately value)
    • Heat recovery efficiency (based on: https://www.engineeringtoolbox.com/heat-recovery-efficiency-d_201.html)

• Services

  • easycontrols.party_mode

Enable debug logging

The logger integration lets you define the level of logging activities in Home Assistant. Turning on debug mode will show more information about the running of the integration in the homeassistant.log file.

logger:
  default: error
  logs:
    custom_components.easycontrols: debug