Climate

Climate Group Helper

bjrnptrsn/climate_group_helper · v1.16.0

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Climate Group Helper for Home Assistant: Orchestrate single or multiple TRVs, ACs, and heaters. Features a built-in custom Dashboard card, native TRV calibration, window & presence control, schedules, virtual presets, and smart sync modes.

Documentation Source code

In Apple Home through HomeKit Bridge

What HomeKit Bridge makes of each kind of entity this integration creates, read from its source code. A device only gets the ones that apply to it.

Entity	Shows up as	Note
`switch`	Switch or outlet
`climate`	Thermostat
`sensor`	Sensor (temperature, humidity, air quality…)

1 report below say how a device from this integration behaves in the Home app.

What people report

A calculated climate group that works with Tado thermostats imported via HomeKit. Exposing the group to Apple Home initially showed only Off; a fix restores last known modes at startup.

Works1
Partly works2

Device	In Home Assistant	In Apple Home	What they said	Source
Tado V3+ thermostats (via HomeKit)	Works Local		Group sync bug with switched-off devices fixed in next release Saved copy Hello! I've been using my tado V3+ thermostats for quite some time now. For a long time I used the accompanying app and tado's cloud service, but I've always wanted to switch to a purely local solution. So I've now integrated them all into Home Assistant via HomeKit. I wanted to use the Climate Group Helper to synchronize the rooms, since it seems to be widely used and is still being maintained. Environment - Climate Group Helper: 1.14.0 - Home Assistant: 2026.6.2 (frontend: 20260527.5) - Devices: tado V3+ Smart Radiator Thermostats via HomeKit Device (homekit_controller), no tado cloud … Excerpt saved from GitHub on 2026-10-23.	Issue #129 · 2026-10
Climate Group Helper entity via HomeKit Bridge	Partly works	Partly in Home Home app showed only Off mode and ignored changes; reporter still saw this after fix	Group's dynamic mode list empty at startup; fix in 0.12.0 restores modes Saved copy Description A `climate_group_helper` entity exposed to Apple HomeKit via the built-in HomeKit integration appears in the Home app but cannot be controlled: it shows the current temperature, the state “Off”, offers only the “Off” mode, and changes to mode or target temperature have no effect on the group or its members. In the Home Assistant UI the group works as expected. In Google Home / Google Assistant only one mode is shown as well, but the current operating state is visible and changing the target temperature works. --- ### Environment - Home Assistant: 2025.12.3 (OS) - Climate Group … Excerpt saved from GitHub on 2026-10-23.	Issue #33 · 2025-12
Tado thermostats (via HomeKit)	Partly works Local		Group turned thermostats off; cause was Tado Internet Bridge HomeKit trouble, fixed by reboot Saved copy Since the latest version (I think 0.23) Climate_Group_Helper turns off all thermostats in the group. And I don't find the reason for it. Here are screenshot: This is a freshly created helper with a new name. I am using 0.25, but this also happened in 0.24.* Settings: The rest is default. No Window Control, no schedule. The used Thermostats are Tado Thermostats, which are integrated via HomeKit into HA. Here is the history of one of them: The yellow dots are from the old climate_group_helper. Every 15 minutes it shortly turned on and after some seconds it turned off again. I think this is from … Excerpt saved from GitHub on 2026-10-23.	Issue #78 · 2026-04

Gathered from GitHub issues, pull requests, discussions and docs, and from r/homeassistant. These are individual reports, so check the linked thread and the date before you buy.

How it connects

Calculated

Works out its values from other data rather than talking to a device.

Details

Installs (analytics)	1,539 (0.22%)
GitHub stars	132
Latest version	1.16.0 (2026-10-23)
Set up in the UI	Yes
Maintainers	@bjrnptrsn
License	MIT

Limitations from the README

| Action | Behavior | |--------|----------| | Ignore (Default) | Member stays in its current mode if it doesn't support the target mode. | | Turn Off | Member is turned off when it doesn't support the target mode (e.g. AC when heating). |

In ReReHome

Whatever HomeKit Bridge shares reaches Apple Home as normal HomeKit accessories behind your Home Assistant bridge, so ReReHome shows and controls them like any other.

Bridges get their own settings page listing the accessories behind them.

Sources

Documentation: https://github.com/bjrnptrsn/climate_group_helper
Source code: https://github.com/bjrnptrsn/climate_group_helper
Issues: https://github.com/bjrnptrsn/climate_group_helper/issues
HACS: https://hacs.xyz