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title: "Generic Thermostat"
description: "Turn Home Assistant into a thermostat"
date: 2015-03-23 19:59
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ha_category: Deprecated
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<p class='note warning'>
**This platform has been deprecated in favor of a "[climate](/components/climate.generic_thermostat/)" platform and will be removed in the future. Please use the climate platform.**
</p>

Heat Control is a thermostat implemented in Home Assistant. It uses a sensor and a switch connected to a heater under the hood. If the measured temperature is cooler then the target temperature, the heater will be turned on and turned off when required temperature is reached.

```yaml
# Example configuration.yaml entry
thermostat:
  platform: heat_control
  name: Study
  heater: switch.study_heater
  target_sensor: sensor.study_temperature
  min_temp: 15
  max_temp: 21
  target_temp: 15
  min_cycle_duration:
  # At least one of these must be specified:
     days: 2
     hours: 1
     minutes: 10
     seconds: 5
     milliseconds: 20
```

Configuration variables:

- **name** (*Required*): Name of thermostat
- **heater** (*Required*: `entity_id` for heater switch, must be a toggle device.
- **target_sensor** (*Required*): `entity_id` for a temperature sensor, target_sensor.state must be temperature.
- **min_temp** (*Optional*): Set minimum set point available (default: 7)
- **max_temp** (*Optional*): Set maximum set point available (default: 35)
- **target_temp** (*Required*): Set intital target temperature. Failure to set this variable will result in target temperature being set to null on startup.
- **ac_mode** (*Optional*): Set the switch specified in the *heater* option to be treated as a cooling device instead of a heating device.
- **min_cycle_duration** (*Optional*): Set a minimum amount of time that the switch specified in the *heater* option must be in it's current state prior to being switched either off or on.
