Generic Thermostat in Home Assistant
generic_thermostat
part of Home Assistant since pre 0.7
Generic Thermostat is an official Home Assistant integration for Climate and Helper. Talks to the device on your own network and asks for changes at regular intervals.
Facts about this integration
- Compatible with Home Assistant
- yes, official integration
- Connection
- Local, polling – Talks to the device on your own network and asks for changes at regular intervals.
- Setup
- in the user interface
- Kind
- Helper
- Quality scale
- Internal – Part of Home Assistant itself, not rated separately.
- Installations
- 21,530 (3.1 % of the installations that share statistics)
- Provides
- Climate
Setup
- In Home Assistant open Settings → Devices & services.
- Click "Add integration" and search for Generic Thermostat.
- Follow the dialog – it asks for everything the integration needs.
The link goes through my.home-assistant.io and opens the setup dialog in your own instance – no address of ours is involved.
Known issues and fixes
2 open issues and 4 bug fixes in the last twelve months are recorded for Generic Thermostat in the Home Assistant issue tracker. If something does not work, update first: the most recent fix shipped with Home Assistant 2026.8.0.
Open
- open Reported problem #140819
- open Reported problem #175920
Fixed
- fixed in 2026.8.0 Bug fix #177602
Source: the issue tracker of Home Assistant, as of September 14, 2026. The sentences are written by a language model from the titles of the issues; the reports themselves are on GitHub.
Check a specific device for known problems in the product check →
Source of this entry: the official documentation of the integration