Versatile Thermostat UI Card and community enhancements

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1. Add support for Versatile Thermostat UI Card - #169 ,
2. Add a slow auto-regulation mode - #168 (thanks to @maia)
3. Mean power Update - #150 (thanks to @adi90x). Beware: breaking change !
4. switch from HEAT to COOL mode - #144 (thanks to @muchasuerte).

Breaking changes in 4.0.0

The power of the device should now be the total power of all controler devices by the VTherm. This allow to have eterogeneous equipment with different power. In case of multi-devices controlled by a single VTherm you will have to edit and change the device_power value. Set the total power of all devices.

Try the Versatile Thermostat UI Card - a card dedicated to VTherm

A special card for the Versatile Thermostat has been developed (based on the Better Thermostat). It is available here Versatile Thermostat UI Card and offers a modern vision of all the VTherm statuses:

This is an experimental UI Card. Please give any feedback here

Enjoy !

! FIX heater can stay On or Off !

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This release fix a major bug which can lead your heater on or off wrongly.

Please install !

Self-regulation and switch command inversion

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1. Add an self-adaptive regulation in over climate mode - #129 (Thanks to @maia and @adi90x for the tests and discussion),
2. Add an inversion switch option for wired pilot switch - #124 (Thanks to @apas2 for the suggestion)

See README documentation to learn how to use those exciting improvements of Versatile Thermostat which makes it more ... versatile.

Many, many thanks for the great community and discussions 👍 .

Remove reset accumulated error and lower the algorithm coefs.

3.8.0.beta4

Do no reset the accumulated error after temp change. Lower the coefs

Add force when target temp is changed ...

... by scheduler or manually

Auto-regulation improvements

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1. Add auto_regulation_dtemp parameter which is minimal temperature offset taken into account for regulation. A good value is 0.5,
2. Add auto_regulation_period_min parameter which is minimal period for sending new regulated target temperature to underlyings. This is useful if you want to limit the target temperature change. Some TRV doesn't like too much target temperature changes

Those parameters are initialized with respectively 0.5 and 5 min. There are available for configuration in the over_climate configuration panel.

Test release for auto-regulation

3.8.0.beta1

Change regulation parameters

Alpha release - TEST auto-regulation of VTherm over climate

DO NOT USE IN PRODUCTION.

Only for testing purpose.

This is an implementation of the auto-regulation based on PI algorithm. Do not use until you are not concerned.

VTherm over valve, Window bypass, SK language, etc ...

Release content

This release contains many exciting improvemens suggered by the community:

1. Add a new type of VTherm to control directly the valve of a TRV - #131
2. Add a window bypass to allow heating when window is open - #138 (Thanks to @adi90x),
3. size of climate entities in database - #137 (thanks to @maia),
4. add the Slovake language - #135 (thanks to @misa1515),

Bug fixes

1. VT thinks that all TRVs are turned off and must be turned on at startup - #136 (thanks to @Ra72xx)

In this release, @adi90x and @misa1515 make their first contributions 🥇 👍

For test of fix of issue #136

FIX bug (#141)

Co-authored-by: Jean-Marc Collin <[email protected]>