Not all HVACs support all hvac modes

[robigan]

Was taking a look at the code for climate systems and I noticed that the code returns auto, heat, cool, and off modes as supported in all climate modes, this is not true.

Here is an image of this:

I can work on a simple patch ready within the next 2 hours if all goes smooth, just gotta figure out what properties are which if I can even remember how to do it 😅

[robigan]

Left has only heating, right has heating and cooling

Possibly this is it?
Any RFCs?

[robigan]

Just compared the right of my previous image with another room that has only heating and I got this:

[robigan]

Yeah same results on two other rooms
Left is the kitchen with heating and cooling, right is another random room with only heating

[h4de5]

sorry, i must have missed this yesterday.

there are very different climate devices from vimar out there. they do offer different features and unfortunately even have different states and options, making a consolidated interface really hard to implement.
there are still some bugs related to this mess open (e.g. #19) and i do have a hard time fixing them because i only have access to one type and I do not want to break it for others.
I was thinking about restructuring climate.py to get a better idea of the different types but i do not find enough time to do this.

[robigan]

I was hoping to finish the patches yesterday but due to my schedule and problems with setting up dev env I am gonna have to try and finish this tomorrow. Maybe it's time I skirted the law and possibly decompiled the firmware to understand it's inner workings? Either way I am gonna make my own patches, maybe it's possible to implement something that'll raise awareness towards helping figure out various setups such as an alert in Home Assistant?