HVAC modes -> Presets ?? about heatmiser-for-home-assistant HOT 2 CLOSED

Hi @PhillyGilly, that comment at line 49 about the NeoStats not having an off mode is mine. Technically it is true: standby just applies an alternative set point (the frost point) and continues to operate as a normal functioning thermostat. Thinking about the climate platform after its rearchitecture a few months back, standby could be implemented as a preset, which is what my PR did a while back.

Since then, I see that the implementation has been changed such that standby is translated to an hvac_mode, specifically HVAC_MODE_OFF, and I think it is better for it. It's more logical and fits better with how the standard Lovelace cards work. The nice thing is that the frost point gets change if the temperature is adjusted while the NeoStat is HVAC_MODE_OFF, which was the only real reason for my previous implementation of standby as a preset.

So I think the current implementation is optimal.

To your suggestion, I get where you are coming from, but I think it would be an unfortunate mix of concerns between platform and GUI behaviour. The NeoStat alternating between heating and idle should not cause the preset to change. It should be relatively easy to achieve what you are looking for with some custom styling in Lovelace.

Oh, and the comment at line 49 really should be removed - it's not relevant anymore.

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OK. I can see that using orange/grey instead of state=heat/state=off may have avoided heat/heating confusion but made the whole less clear. So the four possible permutations of operation with my "PRESET" names are:
off/idle => AWAY
off/heating=> ECO
heat/idle => COMFORT
heat/heating => BOOST
I'll drop the PRESET idea and work on my custom styling with the first task being to get the neostat HW to change colour or icon on attribute hvac_action rather than state.

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