I used to have a Hive Home ecosystem until one fateful day where they limited my heating to 15 degrees and tried to freeze me to death unless I bought their newest thermostat and paid for their subscription. I ended up saying fuck the extorting bastards and bought a cheap Zigbee Thermostat to get me through the winter. It’s been truly excellent, I really can’t complain. However I got my Raspberry Pi for Christmas and am now trying to take everything into my own local control, so time to say goodbye to Smart Life and hello HA Companion.

It’s all been fine for the most part but I have two issues.

1. I don’t seem to be able to automate my heating. I can manually set it to whatever temperature I want, but I can’t automate or script a boost of my heating. Edit: If anyone else has this issue in the future, the solution is to Call A Service and set the temperature there.

2. My temperature sensors aren’t reporting as often as they were in the Smart Life app.

I’ll replace the thermostat eventually, but I would like to delay it as long as possible so I can buy other stuff first 😂