Enhancement Add support for climate preset modes

[lordcoxis]

Enhancement Summary

Add support for climate preset modes

Detailed Description

As of v4.3.12 climate preset modes are not supported, only HVAC modes. There are some climate devices (and integrations like Versatile Thermostat) that use preset modes and so it would be nice to support them.

Additional Context

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[edwardtfn]

This is something I wanna work on soon as there are many similar requests:

• Preset Modes #1186
• Climate screen presets #1284
• Enhancement Selection of presets on climate page #1702
• How to use preset for climate devices. #2314

This will require support to a "select" page:

• Select Button #1443
• Enhancement allow input_select #1780

[drpixel972]

Hello,

@edwardtfn : A select button may or may not be needed.
I think that the same layout as the hvac mode (icon representing the preset) may be more user friendly.
But I don't know if it is easier to code with the select, or the icons ^^.

@lordcoxis : I'm in the same situation (vtherm and nspanel). What I may do, is an automation that select the right preset from the selected temperature.

Best Regards,

Christophe

[edwardtfn]

You're right, we probably could solve this with icons...
Are those icons for preset mode standardized?

[lordcoxis]

I agree with using the same layout as HVAC modes (icons), that's what I use in regular HA dashboards anyway. In Versatile Thermostat we have the following presets:

Activity: mdi:motion-sensor
Eco: mdi:leaf
Comfort: mdi:sofa
Boost: mdi:rocket-launch
Manual: mdi:knob
Frost: mdi:snowflake

Ideally one could select which ones to show (I only use activity, eco, comfort and boost for example), but that's for another day I guess.

[drpixel972]

I don't think that the icons are standardized, as the presets themselves are not (even though most of them are very common).
Two possibles situations :

• Focus on the most common one, and specify the icons which are common in the lovelace cards.
• More universal, create a dictionnary with the preset and the associated icon (the blueprint then, should help the user to create the dictionnary)

@lordcoxis : I have the same situation ^^ .