Multiple Heating Devices via Home Assistant integration

[CFenner]

I use the ViCare integration to Home Assistant and I think underneath it's using this library. Now I added a second heating device to my account and it's not showing up. Is this use-case in planning or is there anything I can do to help to support this?

[CFenner]

Meanwhile I found the place in the integration where the devices are loaded and prepared a PR home-assistant/core#96044 to implement this.

[tuxiano]

Hi, will your PR also help to show radiators and room sensors in HA?

[CFenner]

With the code from the PR, all devices will be iterated. If any sensor is created depends of the sensor definitions that are already maintained in the integration. I don't have such devices, you're welcome to test it.

[Bascht74]

@CFenner Hi Christopher, I was looking forward to that. But the Radiators a not populated with the change.

The feature was added in the HACS integration:
oischinger/ha_vicare@65fd645

There is a smal hint that might be relevant:

RadiatorActuator have no circuits but also create a climate entity.

Could that be the cause why the radiator devices won't be ppulated with the offifial HA Integration?
I tried it with the custom one and they are there...

Thx for your work anyway!

[CFenner]

Yes, currently climate entities are only created for circuits.

[Bascht74]

Good to know!

I hope that somebody can add that definition to the official repro as well…
I don’t know if this might be a rather big change or small addition.

In my second life I will become a python programmer so that I could add stuff myself…

[danielhad]

If this CR would be productiv, that would be great. Have a heatpump and an oilburner. Now i buyed a second vitoconnect (for the oilburner), but cant add this values to home assistant :-(

[tuxiano]

@CFenner Hi Christopher, would you mind to answer me some question related to the PyVicare development e.g. on discord?