There is Better Thermostat for Home Assistant

Make your heating smarter, more efficient, and way more customizable with Better Thermostat for Home Assistant! 🔥🏡

This HACS integration + UI card gives you true smart-heating logic — adaptive heating, predictive control, valve regulation, multi-sensor support, and beautiful UI features that many thermostats simply don't offer on their own.

In this video, I’ll show you how to install, configure, and customize Better Thermostat + Better Thermostat UI Card, and walk through why this solution can drastically improve your Home Assistant heating setup — especially with TRVs and multiple temperature sensors.

🔧 What we cover:
✔️ Why Better Thermostat beats basic climate control
✔️ Installation via HACS
✔️ UI card setup & customization
✔️ Using external sensors for smarter TRVs
✔️ Tips for improving comfort & saving energy

🔗 Useful Links
Better Thermostat: https://github.com/KartoffelToby/better_thermostat
Better Thermostat UI Card: https://github.com/KartoffelToby/better-thermostat-ui-card
Documentation & discussion: https://github.com/KartoffelToby/better_thermostat/discussions
Aqara Outdoor Sensors: https://s.click.aliexpress.com/e/_DE3aRzd (*)
Shelly TRV HR: https://shelly.hr/web-trgovina/plug-and-play/trv/
Shelly TRV EU: https://www.shelly.cloud/shelly-thermostatic-radiator-valve
TRV 3D-printed Case (STL): https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:4620242

🕒 Chapters
00:00 – Intro
00:36 – Why Better Thermostat
01:34 – Installing via HACS
02:10 – UI Card setup
02:41 – Documentation tour
04:42 – Config & testing
09:39 – UI customization & tips

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Stay warm and keep tinkering,
Bearded Tinker 🧔⚙️

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