Preheating state about mbapi2020

[ReneNulschDE]

Please check the attributes of the range_electric sensor. There you can find some precond-attributes

[ReneNulschDE]

Hi, may I ask you to ask this question in the forum? I'm on vacation the next 4 weeks and have access to my mobile only. I'm sure someone can help, otherwise I will take a look on it when I'm back in June.

[thogens]

Hi all,

I'm facing the same "issue" with the separate buttons for enable/disable. Any hint on how I can expose a single switch to HomeKit that reflects the current state of pre-heating and makes it possible to "enable/disable"?
Thomas

[ReneNulschDE]

Hi Thomas,

Please check the mbapi2020 thread in the HA forum. https://community.home-assistant.io/t/mercedes-me-component/41911

I'm sure we discussed a solution based on a template switch

[thogens]

Hi,

thanks for the hint. I checked it and I was not really successful. If I call the service manually to start for instance, nothing happens in the car. Also vice versa, the attributes in the range_electric sensor are not updated, if I switch preconditioning on in MercedesMe app. Something is odd.
Interestingly the buttons in the overview to start/stop preconditioning are working fine...
Not sure if my changes in configuration.yaml are ok in principle.

` standheizung_glc:
value_template: "{{ is_state_attr('sensor.ohv_g513e_range_electric', 'PrecondActive', 'on') }}"
turn_on:
service: mbapi2020.auxheat_start
data:
vin: W1N253xxxxxxxxxxxxx
turn_off:
service: mbapi2020.auxheat_stop
data:
vin: W1N253xxxxxxxxxxxxx

`