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Integrating the WEM portal into Home Assistant

Integrate the main gas boiler with the WEM portal into the Home Assistant. We'll do it together! ๐Ÿชต


Since our old Vaillant gas boiler broke down last year (yes, literally ๐Ÿ”ฅ), we had a local gas/water installer fit a Weishaupt gas boiler.

Not only is it much more efficient, it also has a network interface and a connection to the WEM portal. This allows you to control your gas boiler and view data while on the move. But: You can a) only buy access for 5 years (cost โ‚ฌ76.20) or b) you were nice to your gas/water installer and got it for free. As a small service to the customer, so to speak ๐Ÿ˜‰

Weishaupt does not offer a (public) API

My first idea was to use an API from Weishaupt. But unfortunately they don't offer one. Why not at all? There's nothing wrong with it...

At least someone has thought about it and written an integration for Home Assistant that scrapes the page and makes all the relevant data available.

GitHub - erikkastelec/hass-WEM-Portal: Custom component for retrieving sensor information from Weishaupt WEM PortalCustom component for retrieving sensor information from Weishaupt WEM Portal - GitHub - erikkastelec/hass-WEM-Portal: Custom component for retrieving sensor information from Weishaupt WEM PortalGitHuberikkastelec

This integration can be easily installed via HACS.

Home Assistant Community Store | HACSHACS gives you a powerful UI to handle downloads of all your custom needs.HACS

That wasn't so bad ๐Ÿ˜Ž

Once integrated, you have all the entities of the portal in Home Assistant:

With the help of the Mushroom Cards you can then build pretty fancy stuff in Home Assistant.

Mushroom Cards - Build a beautiful dashboard easily ๐Ÿ„Hi! ๐Ÿ‘‹ I would like to present you a project I've been working for several weeks: ๐Ÿ„ Mushroom It's collection of cards to help you to build a lovelace dashboard. Features ๐Ÿ›  Editor for all cards and all options (no need to edit yaml but you can!) ๐Ÿ˜ Icon picker ๐Ÿ–Œ Color picker ๐Ÿš€ 0...Home Assistant Communitypiitaya

Et voila

Now you have successfully integrated your gas boiler into Home Assistant.

Cheers ๐Ÿ”ฅ


How did the integration go for you? Did it work for you? Let me know in the comments ๐Ÿ‘‡


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