Alexa (& Friends) Smart Talking Thermostat 🐔

New in Version 2.0

Notifications Schedule, Power Backup Guard: apps.yaml configuration breaking changes, please read the documentation to fix for v2.

Alexa (or other Smart Speakers) become the voice for your thermostat. Take control of your thermostat like never before. Extremely "Street Smart"!

• Your Thermostat Speaks What It's Doing: Alexa & HA together are 💎Awesome!💎
• Notifications: Your thermostat speaks only when you want it to. This is handy specially at night when your kids are sleeping and you want things to be quiet
• Enforce Temp Limits: your guests (or kids) can't crank up the heat ♨️ or cold ❄️, saving you 💵💵💵
• Daily Shut Off: no more forgetting to turn off the thermostat and let it run whole day while you are away
• Enforce Fan Mode Auto: Does not allow your fan to aimlessly be on, this can be used with the Air Cycle Feature to get the best of both worlds, save 💵💵💵 and cycle air
• Air Cycle Feature: Cycles air at the defined interval between the rooms in your house. If you have temp difference in rooms in your house, or a room has stagnant air, and just smells funny , this will solve it! kids 👧👧 ;)
• Open Door/Window Shut Off: AC turns off if a door 🚪 or window 🌇 is left open for 60 seconds. Works specially well with your
• Power Backup Guard: AC turns off if the mains utility grid goes offline and your home is running on battery backup (Tesla Powerwall)

Ever since we've set this up in our home, we cannot imaging our home without it. Your home suddenly gets a voice, something like Jarvis ... Awesome!

Please ⭐ this repo if you like my work and also check out my other repos like

• Home Assistant 'STEROIDS' Configuration
• Alexa (& Friends) Talking Clock
• Alexa (& Friends) Doorbell
• Alexa (& Friends) Door/Window Announce
• Alexa (& Friends) Smart Talking Thermostat
• Auto 'Crappy Internet' Rebooter

Also, if you want to see a walkthrough of my Home Assistant configuration, I have my video walkthrough on youtube below

• Home Automation on 'STEROIDS' : Video Walkthrough

Installation

Needs the Alexa Media Player or Sonos integration

Use HACS or download the alexa_smart_talking_thermostat.py from inside the apps directory to your local apps directory, and add the following configuration to enable the app.

App Configuration (config/appdaemon/apps/apps.yaml)

hvac_master_bedroom:
  module: alexa_smart_talking_thermostat
  class: AlexaSmartTalkingThermostat
  thermostat: climate.thermostat_master_bedroom_mode
  hvac_limits:
    cooling_min: 67
    heating_max: 72
    daily_shutoff: "08:00:00"
    enforce_fan_auto_mode: True
  # OPTIONAL
  notifications:
    speaker: media_player.master_bedroom_alexa
    start_time: "08:00:00"
    end_time: "21:30:00"
  # OPTIONAL
  doors_windows: 
    - binary_sensor.master_bedroom_door
    - binary_sensor.master_bedroom_window
  # OPTIONAL
  air_recirculation:
    hour: true
    half_hour: true
    quarter_hour: false
    minute_offset: 0
    duration: 1
  # OPTIONAL
  power_backup_guard:
    grid_status_sensor: binary_sensor.grid_status
  debug: false

key	description
module	The module name of the app
class	The name of the Class
thermostat	Your climate entity (Thermostat) to connect with the app
hvac_limits|cooling_min	Nobody can set the cooling temperature below this threshold. $$$ 💰 Hurray!
hvac_limits|heating_max	Nobody can set the heating temperature above this threshold. $$$ 💰 Yaaaay!
hvac_limits|daily_shutoff	Shuts off your thermostat "everyday" at this time. Recommend 8 AM. This is in 24 hour format ("08:00:00")
hvac_limits|enforce_fan_auto_mode	Does not allow your fan aimlessly be on, this can be used with the Air Cycle Feature to get the best of both worlds, save $$$ and consistent air throughout your house
notifications\speaker	Your Alexa to connect with the app
notifications\start_time	Notifications start time
notifications\end_time	Notifications end time
doors_windows	If you have door/window sensors in the same room, connect them here so the thermostat will shut off if they are open for more than 60 seconds
air_recirculation|hour	Cycles air every hour. Turns on just the fan. Very handy to control stagnant air and temperature difference in your home!
air_recirculation|half_hour	Cycles every 30 mins
air_recirculation|quarter_hour	Cycles every 15 mins
air_recirculation|minute_offset	If you want different thermostats in your house to cycle at different times, set the offset. E.g. MasterBedroom to 1, LivingRoom to 7, Kitchen to 15 etc
air_recirculation|duration	how many minutes to cycle the air.
power_backup_guard\grid_status_sensor	Grid status sensor. If you do not have that, you can omit this section completely
debug	if True, outputs messages to the AppDaemon Log

Thank you! 🙌

This app wouldn't be possible without the amazing work done by the developers and community at Home Assistant, and of Keaton Taylor and Alan Tse on their Alexa Media Player integration for Home Assistant. https://github.com/custom-components/alexa_media_player

If you like my work and feel gracious, you can buy me a beer below ;)

License

Apache-2.0. By providing a contribution, you agree the contribution is licensed under Apache-2.0. This is required for Home Assistant contributions.