Honeywell Evohome

I have Honeywell Evohome indeed. Room thermostats connect to central unit via RF and the central unit connect to the house and HA via WiFi. It works pretty well

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Not sure if things have moved on since I looked at this but I went with Honeywell Evohome. My main reasons were it's not dependent on being online, and it has a handy screen where you can change settings and override it. One of my guiding principles is that if I got hit by a bus and HA crashed, everything would still work, even if in a more basic way. This means Evohome working standalone is a definite benefit but the integration with HA gives me more options if I want them.

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… because auto is not an operation mode in the Evomhome plugin, but a preset. Maybe it is possible to match the Homekit modes with the operations in the Evohome plugin? ### What version of Home Assistant Core has the issue? 2023.1.1 ### What was the last working version of Home Assistant Core? _No response_ ### What type of installation are you running? Home Assistant Container ### Integration causing the issue evohome ### Link to integration documentation on our website https://www.home-assistant.io/integrations/evohome/ ### Diagnostics information _No response_ ### Example YAML snippet _No …

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… only {0: , 1: } modes are supported. I opened this issue but it was closed since there was no activity. I took a look at the code and discovered that the zones seem to be the problem. At this line the state of a zone is set to auto when the location is set to off. Auto is not a valid HVAC-mode for a zone when looked a the possible states (see screenshot). ### What version of Home Assistant Core has the issue? 2023.7.3 ### What was the last working version of Home Assistant Core? _No response_ ### What type of installation are you running? Home Assistant Container ### Integration causing the …

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… only {0: , 1: } modes are supported. I opened this issue but it was closed since there was no activity. I took a look at the code and discovered that the zones seem to be the problem. At this line the state of a zone is set to auto when the location is set to off. Auto is not a valid HVAC-mode for a zone when looked a the possible states (see screenshot). ### What version of Home Assistant Core has the issue? 2023.7.3 ### What was the last working version of Home Assistant Core? _No response_ ### What type of installation are you running? Home Assistant Container ### Integration causing the …

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