Is there a chance to read/write the start and end of vacation? (as possible in the myDevice App)

[harvey637]

Hi,
sometime ago I recognised the readable "vacation" boolean. I played around with setting the vacation start and end and some parameters of the vacation e.g. the vacation temperature in the Buderus MyDevice App. My heatpump is reacting accordingly, it sets the temperature to the vacation_temperature at the day of the vacation at 00:00. Also in the ems-esp the varaible "vacation" is set to true.
The app gives me the opportunity by a single question to terminate the vacation, which than goes back to normal program modus.

My question is, is this (setting of vacation_start_day, vacation_end_day, possibly also the vacation_temperature) readable AND WRITEABLE in the ems-esp webfrontend/api?

This would be a great help in centralizing my vacations on a single point (e.g. calendar) to control all my devices (heatpump, blinds, lights,....) by this variables.
Debug output from the ems-esp can be provided if helpful.

Thank You
Harvey

[Sbried]

The holiday mode is just readable. It is set by the controller when a holiday starts/ends.
There is no option given by Buderus to use just this "switch". You will have to set start/end, temperatures and so on

[harvey637]

Hi, I tested a bit more:
Created custom entities for my RC300 like:
name : device_id : type_id : offset : writable : size : scale : unit
Holiday_Start_Year : 0x10 ; 0x269 : 0 : yes : uint8 : 1 : -
Holiday_Start_Month : 0x10 ; 0x269 : 1 : yes : uint8 : 1 : -
Holiday_Start_Day : 0x10 ; 0x269 : 2 : yes : uint8 : 1 : -
Holiday_End_Year : 0x10 ; 0x269 : 3 : yes : uint8 : 1 : -
Holiday_End_Month : 0x10 ; 0x269 : 4 : yes : uint8 : 1 : -
Holiday_End_Day : 0x10 ; 0x269 : 5 : yes : uint8 : 1 : -
Holiday_unknown : 0x10 ; 0x269 : 6 : yes : uint8 : 1 : -
Holiday_Temperature : 0x10 ; 0x269 : 7 : yes : uint8 : 1 : °C

When I write values in EMS-ESP they are transported into the app, when I change values in the app they are reflected in the EMS-ESP.

The year starts at 2000, so "25" is year "2025".
Month is 01-12, day 01-31 (31 in a month with less days is pushed into next month)
Delete holiday with start and end date like 17-01-01.
I have no idea about the unkonwn offset or other offsets.
I cannot handle anything other than "in_house", "manual temperature", possibly this are the other offsets, but I have no clue.

So with writing to this curtom entities I can set (most params, but the essential ones) holiday via api, which is great!!!!!
For me I dont need any other holidays, as I can set single day holidays everyday on a holiday eg. if tomorrow is holiday I set it shortly after midnight.

[JokerGermany]

If it helps:
This is my logic in Home Assistant for setting holiday:

metadata: {}
data:
  value: >-
    {{now().strftime('%d.%m.%Y')}}-31.12.{{as_timestamp(now()+timedelta(days=365))|
    timestamp_custom('%Y')}}
target:
  entity_id: text.ems_esp_thermostat_hc2_vacations
action: text.set_value

This is my logic for setting holiday off:

if:
  - condition: template
    value_template: >-
      {{as_timestamp(strptime(states('text.ems_esp_thermostat_hc2_vacations').split('-')[0],
      '%d.%m.%Y'))<as_timestamp(today_at())}}
then:
  - metadata: {}
    data:
      value: >-
        {{states('text.ems_esp_thermostat_hc2_vacations').split('-')[0]}}-{{as_timestamp(now()-timedelta(days=1))|
        timestamp_custom('%d.%m.%Y')}}
    target:
      entity_id: text.ems_esp_thermostat_hc2_vacations
    action: text.set_value
else:
  - metadata: {}
    data:
      value: >-
        {{as_timestamp(now()-timedelta(days=1))|timestamp_custom('%d.%m.%Y')}}-{{as_timestamp(now()-timedelta(days=1))|timestamp_custom('%d.%m.%Y')}}
    target:
      entity_id: text.ems_esp_thermostat_hc2_vacations
    action: text.set_value