Home Assistant Package based integration

Integration with Home Assistant via packages

Why packages?

Home Assistant support packages to split configuration. This keeps it tidy and allows you to easy disable or enable a complete set of related configuration items

Summary

The below steps covers the extraction of sample configuration for the HRU-350 WTW:

• binary sensor for the bypass position
• MQTT fan definition
• MQTT sensor for actual mode, supply fan, exhaust fan

Itho WTW

Requirements.

1. Itho add-on MQTT set up has "ithohru" instead of "itho" as prefix.
   So ithohru/state vs itho/state as this allows to mix multiple Itho devices like the WPU heat pump and HRU-350 Heat exchanger.
2. Access to the command-line

Configuration steps.

1. Add the following to configuration.yaml

homeassistant: 
 packages: 
   wpu: !include packages/hru/hru.yaml

2. Create folder via the command line:

mkdir /usr/share/homeassistant/packages/hru

3. Unzip the sample configuration

cd /usr/share/homeassistant/packages/hru
wget https://blabla/hru.zip

4. Check structure.
   This should look something like this:

you@ha:/usr/share/hassio/homeassistant/packages/hru$ ls -al
total 24
drwxr-xr-x 5 root root 4096 Nov 20 15:41 .
drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4096 Oct 27 10:14 ..
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Oct 27 19:35 binary_sensor
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  144 Oct 27 19:36 hru.yaml
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Oct 27 19:35 mqtt

If you restart or reload Home Assistant you should have the following entities:

• fan.itho_hru_350
• sensor.itho_hru_actual_exhaust_fan
• sensor.itho_hru_actual_supply_fan
• sensor.itho_actual_hru_mode

Add them to the dashboard