Custom Climate

Warning

Custom Components are deprecated, not recommended for new configurations and will be removed from ESPHome in the 2025.1.0 release. Please look at creating a real ESPHome component and “importing” it into your configuration with External Components.

You can find some basic documentation on creating your own components at Contributing to ESPHome.

Warning

While we try to keep the ESPHome YAML configuration options as stable as possible, the ESPHome API is less stable. If something in the APIs needs to be changed in order for something else to work, we will do so.

This component can be used to create custom climate devices in ESPHome using the C++ (Arduino) API.

Please first read Custom Sensor Component guide, the same principles apply here.

The example below is an example of a custom climate device - all climate devices must override two methods (Climate ):

  • traits: This should return a ClimateTraits object representing the capabilities of the climate device.

  • control: This receives a ClimateCall object that contains the command the user tried to set.

#include "esphome.h"

class MyCustomClimate : public Component, public Climate {
 public:
  void setup() override {
    // This will be called by App.setup()
  }
  void control(const ClimateCall &call) override {
    if (call.get_mode().has_value()) {
      // User requested mode change
      ClimateMode mode = *call.get_mode();
      // Send mode to hardware
      // ...

      // Publish updated state
      this->mode = mode;
      this->publish_state();
    }
    if (call.get_target_temperature().has_value()) {
      // User requested target temperature change
      float temp = *call.get_target_temperature();
      // Send target temp to climate
      // ...
    }
  }
  ClimateTraits traits() override {
    // The capabilities of the climate device
    auto traits = climate::ClimateTraits();
    traits.set_supports_current_temperature(true);
    traits.set_supported_modes({climate::CLIMATE_MODE_HEAT_COOL});
    return traits;
  }
};

(Store this file in your configuration directory, for example my_climate.h)

And in YAML:

# Example configuration entry
esphome:
  includes:
    - my_climate.h

climate:
- platform: custom
  lambda: |-
    auto my_custom_climate = new MyCustomClimate();
    App.register_component(my_custom_climate);
    return {my_custom_climate};

  climates:
    - name: "My Custom Climate"

Configuration variables:

  • lambda (Required, lambda): The lambda to run for instantiating the climate(s).

  • climates (Required, list): A list of climates to initialize. The length here must equal the number of items in the return statement of the lambda.

See Climate

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