Control Every Room's Temperature with Home Assistant
Do you have a regular thermostat or individual smart radiator valves? In this step-by-step tutorial, I’ll show you how to fully automate your heating with Home Assistant using local schedules and presence detection — completely subscription-free.
Recently, services like Tado showed how quickly features can disappear behind a paywall. By bringing heating automation into Home Assistant, you stay in control of your home, your data, and your wallet.
In this video, you’ll learn:
🔥 How to create helpers in Home Assistant for heating schedules
🔥 How to build custom temperature schedules for each room
🔥 How to apply presence detection so your home heats only when someone is there
🔥 How to automatically reduce heating when everyone leaves the house
🔥 How to set temperature values for thermostats and radiator valves based on time blocks
🔥 How to use YAML to fine-tune your automations (optional)
Whether you use a single thermostat or separate smart radiator valves, this guide lets you heat efficiently, locally, and reliably — without depending on any cloud service.
🧰 What’s Covered
00:00:00 Introduction
00:00:59 Step 1: Create the Necessary Helpers
00:04:29 Step 2: Build the Heating Automations
00:07:07 Step 3: Switch Between "Home" and "Away" Modes
💡 Why Automate Heating with Home Assistant?
✔ Fully local control
✔ No subscription required
✔ Works with thermostats and smart radiator valves
✔ Smarter heating using presence detection
✔ Easy to adjust or extend with more rooms
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