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Home Assistant Lennox S40 / S30 / E30 / M30 integration

Lennox S40/S30/E30/M30 Component

A custom component for Home Assistant to integrate with Lennox iComfort S40, S30, E30 or M30 thermostats; supporting local LAN connections and Lennox Cloud Connections depending on the device model. We believe these configurations work - let us know if your experience is different!

Device Type Local Connection Cloud Connection
S30 Yes Yes
S40 Yes Unknown
E30 Yes Yes
M30 No Yes
Armstrong Comfort Sync A3 Yes Unknown

Please Note: This component does not support the other models of Lennox Thermostats.

Requirements

  • Home Assistant >= 2023.3.0
  • Thermostat linked to a lennoxicomfort.com account or a Thermostat on local LAN with a static/ DHCP leased IP address

Important Information

  • Note: Where we mention S30 in this documentation that also applies to S40, E30 and M30
  • If you are having problems with your S40 - please make sure you have software version 04.25.0070 or greater installed. You also may need to shutdown HA and reboot the thermostats in order to establish a connection.
  • It is recommended to disable automatic software updates on the Thermostat. This will prevent outages if new versions are not compatible with this integration.
  • If using a local connection and you have more than one S30 in your local network, please use a different app_id for each instance (e.g. homeassistant_1, homeassistant_2). If using a Cloud Connection DO NOT change the default app_id.
  • If you are running more than 1 Home Assistant communicating to cloud or locally - you MUST use a different app_id for each instance - Detailed Configuration
  • WARNING If using the Power Inverter or Diagnostic Sensors - S30 stability problems may arise if your system is connected to the Lennox Cloud. Please review docs/diagnostics.md before using.
  • Equipment Parameters - documentation is here docs/parameters.md
  • Passwords with special characters are not properly supported by the Lennox Cloud API and may not work. Known special characters that cause issues are & and ^. If your password contains these characters you may need to change it prior to using the integration.
  • Adjusting the fan CFM in a single zone system causes some diagnostics to stop updating. Changing the diag_level to 0 and back to 2 solves the issue. A script is available here
  • A power outage to the Lennox Controller causes the diag_level to be reset to 0 on reboot. An automation/package is available here to automatically reset.
  • If you add new equipment (BLE Sensors), restart HA in order for the integration to pickup the new equipment.

Planning your install

There are several items to consider before starting the install.

  • Set the Name for the system. This name will be appended as the prefix for all the entities that get created, so you want something descriptive using only alphanumeric character; but not too long as it'll be in all the entity names. To set this, go into the panel, select settings and look for the Name field.

Overview

This image shows the main entities and controls available for the Lennox S30 integration. Specific entity documentation appears later in this document.

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This image shows diagnostic data being collected from the RageHouse Lennox S30 system with an Air Handler and Outdoor Compressor

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Installation

HACS

HACS is recommended as it provides automated install and will notify you when updates are available.

This assumes you have HACS installed and know how to use it. If you need help with this, go to the HACS project documentation.

As of October 2023, this integration is included in the HACS default configuration.

Manually

  1. Go to releases in this repo and download the latest zip or clone the repo
  2. Extract the zip file and copy the custom_components/lennoxs30 folder and all it's contents including the translations subfolder, into the custom_components folder in your HA installation. If upgrading from a prior release, please remove ALL files from this folder.
  3. Restart HA.
  4. Follow the Configuration Instructions below

Configuration

Configuration of the integration is done within the Integrations Panel in Home Assistant.

  1. Click on Configuration, then Integrations
  2. Click Add Integration
  3. Search for Lennox S30/E30

Select Cloud or Local

The first step is to select a Cloud or a Local connection.

Most, will use the Local Connection. Local connections are faster and more reliable than Cloud Connections. To have this work requires that the S30 has a static IP address (DHCP lease), consult your router documentation for how to configure this.

Why would you use a Cloud Connection? Perhaps you want to monitor your vacation home in the Alps? Or your parent's house?

Need both or have multiple S30s? You are able to run multiple local and multiple cloud connections at the same time. Each is configured using this process.

  1. Select Cloud or Local (default) connection

Local Configuration

The next step is providing the connection information.

  1. Enter the IP address of the S30. Alternatively, you can use a DNS name. If you have firewalls and do port mapping you may specify the port (hostname:port or ip:port) By default the S30 exposes HTTPS on Port 443.
  2. You can use the defaults for the rest of the fields, or adjust as needed. See detailed configuration parameters below. Configuration can be changed later when needed. See Detailed Configuration
  3. Submit the form

At this point, the integration will attempt to connect to the S30 - this should take no more than 5-10 seconds. If it succeeds, the Advanced Configuration Page will appear. If it is unable to connect errors will be reported and detailed information will be in the Home Assistant log file. Go onto the Advanced Configuration section.

Cloud Connection

If using a cloud connection. The next step is to specify the connection information.

  1. Enter the email address associated with your Lennox iComfort account
  2. Enter the password associated with your Lennox iComfort account
  3. Use the defaults for the rest of the fields, or adjust as needed. See Detailed Configuration
  4. Submit the form

At this point, the integration will attempt to connect to the S30 - this should take no more than 5-15 seconds. If it succeeds, the Advanced Configuration Page will appear. If it is unable to connect errors will be reported and detailed information will be in the Home Assistant log file. Go onto the Advanced Configuration section.

Advanced Configuration

The next page brings up advanced configuration properties with the recommended defaults.

  1. Use the defaults (recommended) or adjust using the Detailed Configuration
  2. Press submit

At this point, the integration will connect to the S30, download and process its configuration (100kb) and create the Entities in Home Assistant. For local connections, this step typically takes 10-30 seconds complete, for cloud connections it an takes 15-45 seconds. If it is successful, you will be presented with a list of discovered devices. If it fails, review the error and look in the log file for more detailed information.

For Local Connections the Integration instance name is the ip_address / host name. For Cloud Connections the instance name is a redacted version of your email.

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Configuration Options

If you want to change the integration configuration, do into the integrations page, find the integration and click configure. This will bring up the set of options you can change. After saving, select Reload or Restart HA for the changes to take affect.

Temperature Units (Celsius, Fahrenheit)

The integration detects the unit system configured in Home Assistant and reports the data in the correct units. Celsius is in 0.5 degree increments. Fahrenheit is in 1.0 degrees increments. The Lennox API delivers data in both units, so there is no conversion in the Integration and what you see in the Lennox UI should be what you see in HA.

Homeassistant Scripts and automation samples

Samples of useful automations and scripts can be found in the samples/ directory. If you have some you'd like included, open a pull request.

Devices

The integration will create a full set of devices representing your HVAC system. Note: depending on your HVAC configuration and the configuration options not all devices may have entities. Please don't delete the unused devices, they will be used as we add more entities in future releases

Device Type Description Name Parent
S30 This is the HVAC controller, it is a little box with an antenna located near the indoor unit. S30 System Name None
Indoor Unit This specifies the type of indoor unit you have. Examples, include Furnace and Air Handler. S30 System Name + Outdoor Unit S30
Outdoor Unit This specifies the type of outdoor unit you have. Examples include Heat Pump and Air Conditioner. S30 System Name + Indoor Unit S30
Thermostat One thermostat device is created for each zone. These are mounted on the walls in your house. S30 System Name + Zone Name S30

Entities

Climate

Cloud - Automatically detects all the zones across the homes and systems in your cloud account. Climate Entities created for each zone. The integration creates internal unique_ids using the Cloud GUID of your S30 plus the zone index (0,1,2,3).

Local - Automatically detects all the zones in the S30 it is connected to. Climate Entities created for each zone. The integration creates internal unique_ids using the Serial Number of your S30 plus the zone index (0,1,2,3).

Entities are attached to the corresponding S30 Device and have default names (which you can change in Home Assistant)

climate.<systemname><zone_name>

System name is the name you gave to your S30. By default Lennox names the Zones - "Zone 1", "Zone 2", "Zone 3", "Zone 4" - this is configurable within the S30.

Supported operations

HVAC_MODE supports off, cool, heat or heat_cool mode. The specific modes available depend on you equipment. For example an AC does not support heat, hence the heat and heat_cool modes will not be available.

FAN_MODE may be set to auto, on, circulate.

Heating and cooling setpoints can be set

Presets are supported. The Preset List is the list of schedules that you have configured in the S30.

When you are running a schedule; changes to the temperature or fan create a temporary schedule override (the Mobile APP does the same thing). The override will automatically end at the end of the Next Period (e.g. at the time of your next schedule period.) To cancel the override, there is a preset called Cancel Hold. Invoking this preset will remove the hold and re-enable the underlying schedule.

Away Mode. The Away preset will put the S30 system into Manual Away Mode. You could also use the manual away mode switch to do this. Works the same as if you pressed the away button on the S30 Panel

Cancel Manual Away Mode or Smart Away Mode. The cancel away mode preset will cancel the active away mode (manual or smart) and return the S30 system to whatever state it was in prior to putting it into away mode. This works the same as if you pressed the cancel away icon on the S30 panel.

Emergency Heat - Lennox systems that have a heat pump and an auxiliary furnace, have an additional HVAC_MODE to run just the auxiliary furnace. In the S30 App this is shown as Emergency Heat. Home Assistant does not allow this mode directly - instead Home Assistant provides support for turning aux_heat on and off - independent of the HVAC_MODE. The integration has the following behavior:

  • If Emergency Heat Mode is set in the S30, the HA climate will show Heat and the Aux Heat switch will be on.
  • If the HA Aux Switch is turned on, the S30 Heat Mode will be set to Emergency Heat
  • If the HA Aux Switch is turned off, the S30 Heat Mode will be set to Heat
  • If the Lennox Auxiliary Heat is running, the aux attribute in the HA Climate entity will be set to True and the HA Climate Entity will show Heating

Humidification and Dehumidification

Lennox systems may have humidification and dehumidification capability. If so, you will be able to control the humidity setpoint via the Climate Entity and enable / disable humidification/dehumidification via the humidity mode select entity. Lennox has separate setpoints for humidification (husp) and dehumidification (desp); however Home Assistant only support one humidity setpoint. Hence, the Target Humidity shown in Thermostat is based on the active humidity mode. If no humidity mode is active for the zone, the Target Humidity will be unavailable.

Supported Data

The integration provides all of the standard climate attributes, including

  1. Temperature
  2. Humidity
  3. Current HVAC action
  4. Active setpoints - dependent on the HVAC_MODE. For example, in Cool Mode the Cool Setpoint is shown, but not the Heat Setpoint.
  5. Active Preset

In addition the following extra attributes are provided, to allow for a more detailed information on the current zone operation.

Attribute Name Description
allergenDefender Indicates if this is enabled on the zone
aux Auxiliary Heating is On when True, off when False. Typically this means the hest pump is disabled and the furnace is running instead.
balancePoint This is related to heatpump lockout, details / values are not well known yet - if you know let us know!
coolCoast This will only appear in non-zoning systems and it indicates the system is set to a single setpoint mode, the system was in heating mode and has turned off to coast to the desired temperature
damper Position of damper - range 0-100. Observationally values are either 0 or 100; where 100 = damper open.
defrost Defrost is active
demand % of maximum CFM of air demand for the zone. Value is 0-100
fan Indicates if the fan is currently running. Note: this is true only when the fan is running and there is no active HVAC action (cooling, heating, etc.)
heatCoast This will only appear in non-zoning systems and it indicates the system is set to a single setpoint mode, the system was in heating mode and has turned off to coast to the desired temperature
humOperation Current active humidity operation - Waiting,Humidifying, Drying or Off
ssr When enabled, smooth set back begins recovery up to two hours before the programmed time so that the programmed temperature is reached at the corresponding programmed event time. Assume 12°F (6.72°C) per hour for first-stage gas/electric heating and 6°F (3.36°C) per hour for first-stage compressor based heating or cooling.With Smooth Set Back disabled, the system will start a recovery at the programmed time. Options are enabled or disabled. Default is enabled. See manual for more details
tempOperation Current active temperature operation heating or cooling
ventilation Indicates if external ventilation is currently active on this zone
zoneEnabled Indicates if the zone is currently enabled. When in a multi-zone system, disabling iHarmony Zoning, turns the system into a single zone system controlled by Zone 1. The other climate entities are disabled except for reporting Ambient Temperature and Humidity
zoningMode The system zoning mode - central or zoned

lennoxs30.state or lennoxs30.conn_<hostname> or lennoxs30._<redacted email_address>

These entities is automatically created for each integration instance and can be used to track the state and health of the Cloud or Local connection to the S30. When using multiple LAN connections, the first host in the list will use lennoxs30.state for backwards compatibility. Additional local connections will use a naming convention of lennoxs30.conn_. Cloud connections wil use lennoxs30._<redacted email_address>

State Description
Connected API is connected. This is the desired state
Connecting API is trying to connect
Disconnected API has failed to connect and will not try again. Please raise an issue if you encounter this state
Login Failed The login failed due to bad email/password combination. Please correct credentials and reload integration
Waiting to Retry The API was unable to connect or lost connection and is waiting to attempt a retry
Failed The API failed. Please raise an issue if you encounter this state

The entity also has a set of attributes to provide diagnostic data:

Attribute Type Description
message_count int number of messages received from Lennox Cloud
send_count int number of messages sent
receive_count int number of queries to receive new messages. Most queries return no messages
bytes_in int number of bytes received
bytes_out int number of bytes sent
error_count int number of errors
http_2xx int number of HTTP responses received between 200-299. These are good responses
http_4xx int number of HTTP responses received between 400-499. These usually indicate a problem with authorization
http_5xx int number of HTTP responses received between 500-599. These indicate a problem with the Cloud or S30. Seeing a few of these a day is normal
timeouts int number of communication timeouts. These may happen daily for local connections when the S30 network stack does a daily reset. Typically you will see a timeout or a server_disconnect, followed by a client_response_error
client_response_errors int number of client response errors. These may happen daily for local connections when the S30 network stack does a daily reset.
server_disconnects int number of server disconnects. These may happen daily for local connections when the S30 network stack does a daily reset.
connection_errors int number of connection errors. These indicate the destination - local or cloud - was unreachable. This may indicate a network issue.
last_receive_time DateTime Time of last successful receive. Should not be more than SCAN_INTERVAL seconds plus few seconds plus the metric update interval (90 seconds). In other words is this time is more than 5 minutes ago using default SCAN_INTERVAL something is wrong.
last_error_time DateTime Time of the last error response
last_reconnect_time DateTime Time of the last reconnect or the time of the initial connect
last_message_time DateTime Time of the last message from Lennox Cloud. How often messages are received is based on how often data is changing in the thermostat. For example, a temperature change, a setpoint change will cause a message to be sent. If nothing is changing nothing will be sent
sender_message_drop int Number of messages dropped due to invalid sender. This should be zero. Please check error log.
sibling_message_drop int Number of messages dropped from a sibling S30. S30s can be chained together to create a larger system. When this occurs each S30 also sends messages from the other S30. The integration drops these messages are they are not needed.
sysUpTime int Number of seconds the S30 has been running since last reboot. Note: for cloud connections this is updated once at startup. For local connections this updates every minute.
diagLevel int Current Diagnostic Level of the S30. By default this is zero, if using the power diagnostics this should be 1 or 2
softwareVersion string Current software version of the S30
hostname string The hostname used by this connection or None if a cloud connection
sibling_id string The ID of the sibling or None if no sibling
sibling_ip string The IP address of the sibling or None if no sibling

S40 Remote Sensors

The S40 supports the use of remote sensors. Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) is the technology used for the sensor to communicate with the panel. Currently, we have only seen one type of sensor (22V25); if your system has other types of sensors, please open an issue so we can add support.

22V25 - BLE Smart Room Sensor

The 22V25 is a battery powered room sensor.

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Entity Type Name Description
sensor Analog Temperature Provides the analog temperature. It is not clear what the different is between this and the other temperature sensors
sensor Battery The battery level in %
sensor Ble rssi Signal Strength. Unclear what this is vs rssi
sensor Digital Temperature Provides the digital temperature. It is not clear what the different is between this and the other temperature sensors
sensor Humidity Provides the relative humidity
sensor Rssi Signal Strength. Unclear what this is vs ble_rssi
sensor Temperature Provides the temperature
sensor Total Powered Time Time in seconds the device has been powered
binary_sensor Alarm Status Unknown - need info
binary_sensor Comm_status Indicates if communication to the device is up
binary_sensor Device State Unknown - need info
binary_sensor Occupancy Indicates if the room is occupied

21P02 - BLE Indoor Air Quality

The 21P02 is a line powered air quality sensor.

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Sensors

Entity Type Name Units Notes
sensor Co2 PPM CO2 level
sensor Co2 component score Text Fair, Good ?
sensor Co2 lta PPM long term average
sensor Co2 sta PPM short term average
sensor Mitigation Action Text Current action being taken to address air quality
sensor Mitigation State Text ?
sensor Overall Index Text Overall air quality - Fair, Good, ?
sensor Pm25 ug/m3 ? Particulate Matter level
sensor Pm25 component score Text Fair, Good ?
sensor Pm25 lta ug/m3 ? long term average
sensor Pm25 sta ug/m3 ? short term average
sensor VOC ug/m3 ? Volatile Organic Compounds
sensor VOC component score Text Fair, Good ?
sensor VOC lta ug/m3 ? long term average
sensor VOC sta ug/m3 ? short term average

Diagnostic Sensors

Entity Type Name Description
binary_sensor Alarm Status Unknown - need info
sensor Ble rssi Signal Strength. Unclear what this is vs rssi
binary_sensor Comm_status Indicates if communication to the device is up
binary_sensor Device State Unknown - need info
sensor Rssi Signal Strength. Unclear what this is vs ble_rssi
sensor Total Powered Time Time in seconds the device has been powered

Sensors

Zone Temperature and Humidity

When the create_sensors configuration parameter is set, humidity and temperature sensors are created for each zone. This is the default for new configurations. These sensors are attached to the Thermostat Device.

sensor.<system_name>_<zone_name>_temperature

sensor.<system_name>_<zone_name>_humidity

Outdoor Temperature

Lennox systems may have an outdoor temperature sensor. If your system has one a sensor will be automatically created and attached to the Outdoor Unit Device. It's name will be

sensor.<system_name>_outdoor_temperature

Inverter Power

When the create_inverter_power configuration parameter is set, a power sensor entity will be created. Inverter Power can only be enabled for Local Connections. To get this information the S30 must be placed in Diagnostic Mode 2. To set the diagnostic mode see diagnostic level

WARNING S30 instability may result please review docs/diagnostics.md for configuration recommendations.

When diagnostics is enabled it should begin updating with the current power draw of the system. It's name will be

sensor.<system_name>_inverter_energy

It can be combined with an Integration sensor to count the total energy usage over time, and this Integration sensor can be added to the Home Assistant Energy dashboard. A configuration similar to the following should work:

sensor:
  - platform: integration
    source: sensor.<system_name>_inverter_energy
    name: <system_name>_inverter_kwh
    method: left
    unit_prefix: k
    round: 2

Diagnostic

WARNING S30 instability may result please review docs/diagnostics.md for configuration recommendations.

When the option to create diagnostic sensors is enabled, sensors are created for every diagnostic that is available in your system. Hence, the exact list depends on the specific Lennox Equipment you have installed. The names will be

sensor.<system_name>*_<diagnostic_name>

Where eq is IU for your indoor unit (e.g. air handler, furnace); OU for your outdoor unit (Compressor, HeatPump)

Alert

This sensor captures the current alert level of the Lennox controller; indicating the severity of the highest active alert. The list of potential values is:

Value Description
critical indicates a serious problem with your equipment
moderate indicates a potentially important issue with your equipment
minor minor issue
none no issues are present

NOTE - the above list is probably incomplete it may also contain other values, if you see these please raise an issue so we can update the documentation.

sensor.<system_name>_alert

Active_Alerts

This sensor provides a count of the active alerts and the list of active alerts as a attribute.

Attribute Type Description
alert_list string/json The json alert structure from the lennox controller
alerts_num_cleared int number of alerts than have been cleared since last controller reset
alerts_last_cleared_id int the id of the last cleared alert
alerts_num_in_active_array int number of alerts in the alert list

NOTE High and Low Heatpump Ambient lockouts are reported as alerts!

Example JSON

[
  {
    "alert": {
      "userMessageID": 0,
      "timestampClear": "5273299695",
      "code": 19,
      "notifyDealer": false,
      "userMessage": "",
      "isStillActive": true,
      "update": false,
      "clearableByDealer": false,
      "timestampLast": "1636473073",
      "priority": "info",
      "notifyUser": false,
      "clearedBy": "active",
      "timestampFirst": "1636473073",
      "equipmentType": 0,
      "optionalfieldData": "4.518750e+01",
      "action": "set",
      "optionalfieldType": "temperature",
      "clearableByUser": false,
      "count": 1
    },
    "maxItems": 256,
    "id": 0
  },
  {
    "id": 1,
    "alert": {
      "userMessageID": 0,
      "timestampClear": "1636420745",
      "code": 18,
      "notifyDealer": false,
      "userMessage": "Low Ambient HP Heat Lockout",
      "isStillActive": true,
      "timestampLast": "1636460248",
      "clearableByDealer": false,
      "update": false,
      "priority": "info",
      "action": "clear",
      "clearedBy": "device",
      "timestampFirst": "1636420745",
      "count": 1,
      "optionalfieldType": "null",
      "notifyUser": false,
      "optionalfieldData": "",
      "clearableByUser": false,
      "equipmentType": 0
    }
  }
]

wifi_rssi

Local Connections Only. Reports the WIFI signal strength, this sensor can be used to diagnose WIFI dropout issues.

Attribute Type Description
macAddr string MAC Address of the controller
ssid string WIFI network name
ip string IP Address of the controller
router string IP Address of the router gateway
dns string DNS IP Address
dns2 string Secondary DNS IP address
subnetMask string LAN subnet mask
bitrate float WIFI connection bitrate

Select Entities

Humidity Mode

If your Lennox System has Humidification or Dehumidification capability, one of these select entities is created per zone to allow you to set the active humidity mode. The available options - depending on your equipment - are Dehumidify, Humidify and Off

select.<system_name><zone_name>_humidity_mode

Dehumidification Modes

Some Lennox systems support dehumidification and have several different settings available. The available options are Normal, Max and Climate IQ

select.<system_name>_dehumidification_mode

Switch Entities

allergen_defender

When the configuration parameter is true a switch will be created.

switch.<system_name>__allergen_defender

The switch will reflect the current state of the allergen defender mode and will allow turning the mode on or off

manual away mode

This switch reports the current state of manual away mode and allows turning manual away mode on or off.

switch.<system_name>_manual_away_mode

smart away enabled

This switch enables or disables smart away on the S30. This switch does not put the system into away mode. This switch enables the S30 to perform it's smart away detection of your mobile devices. To properly setup Smart Away you will need to use the Lennox Mobile App. Once smart away is setup, this allow you to turn the detection on or off.

switch.<system_name>_manual_away_mode

ventilation

If your system has an external outdoor air damper, a 1 or 2 stage ERV, or a 1 or 2 stage HRV ventilation controls will be created.

There are two different aspects of ventilation

  1. The Ventilation Mode which is On, Off or Installer. When set to Installer the system will run in a Timed mode or ASHRAE mode depending on how the installer configured the system. When set to On the ventilation will run indefinitely. When set to Off the ventilation will not run.
  2. Ventilate Now - this is a one time ventilation for a duration. For example, on the panel, select Ventilate Now and enter 10 minutes - and ventilation will run for 10 minutes.

If the system is receiving weather data; ventilation will not occur if the outside dewpoint is above the configured threshold. The outside dewpoint, for S40, is available in sensor.*_wt_env_dewpoint. The threshold is available in an equipment parameter called Ventilation High Outdoor Dew Point Limit

select.<system_name>_ventilation_mode

Allows setting ventilation mode to On, Off or Installer.

Attribute installer_settings contains installer or ASHRAE

number.<system_name>_ventilate_now

Note: in older installs this entity may be called number.<system_name>_timed_ventilation, it was renamed in 2023_10_0 to make it similar to the panel text.

Setting this to a non-zero number will place the system into a ventilate now mode for the specified number of minutes. This is equivalent to selecting a timed ventilation from the S30 panel. As the amount of remaining time decreases, the value of the number will update.

For example, setting this to 10 - will start ventilation for 10 minutes. After 1 minute has elapsed; this value will be 9; after another minute it will be 8. Setting this to Zero cancels any in-progress timed ventilation. Another way to cancel a timed ventilation is to turn the ventilation switch entity off.

switch.<system_name>_ventilation

The switch will reflect the current state of the ventilation damper and will allow turning the mode on or off.
The switch has the following attributes:

Attribute Type Description
ventilationRemainingTime int number of minutes remaining in ventilation action
ventilatingUntilTime int integer timestamp of the end time of the ventilation action
diagVentilationRuntime int total number of minutes the system has ventilated for over it's lifetime
alwaysOn bool indicates if the switch is on because of an always on command
timed bool indicates if the switch is on because a ventilate now timed ventilation is active

Turning this switch on is equivalent to selecting "Always On" from the S30 Panel. If a ventilate now is active, this switch will be on and turning it off will cancel the timed ventilation.

weather - S40 only

The S40 makes its weather data available. The S30 does not appear to. While the data includes an hourly and daily forecast - that information is available in HA through a variety of weather providers. However there are specific environmental data that the S40 uses to control ventilation and allergen defender mode - this information is available in a set of sensors. Note: if your S40 is not connected to the internet these sensors will be unavailable.

Sensor Type Values
sensor.*_wt_env_air_quality string "hazardous","very unhealthy", "unhealthy", "unhealthy sensitive", "moderate", "good"
sensor.*_wt_env_tree string "low","moderate","high","very high", "extreme"
sensor.*_wt_env_grass string "low","moderate","high","very high", "extreme"
sensor.*_wt_env_mold string "low","moderate","high","very high", "extreme"
sensor.*_wt_env_uv_index string "low","moderate","high","very high", "extreme"
sensor.*_wt_env_dewpoint number C or F
sensor.*_wt_env_wind_speed number Km/H, MPH
sensor.*_wt_env_cloud_coverage number 0-100
sensor.*_wt_env_humidity number 0-100

zoning mode

If your system has iHarmony Zoning, this switch allows you to turn iHarmony Zoning on and off, just like in the Lennox UI.

When iHarmony zoning is disabled the following occurs:

  1. Zone 1 is used to control heating, cooling and humidity
  2. Zone 2,3,4 are disabled for control, but still report Temperature and Humidity
  3. The Climate Entity Attributes zoningMode and zoneEnabled show the zoning and zone enablement status

Binary Sensor Entities

Heat Pump Low Ambient Lockout

Entity is created if your system has a heatpump. Indicates if the heatpump is currently locked out.

binary_sensor.<system_name>_hp_lo_ambient_lockout

Heat Pump Low Ambient Lockout

Entity is created if your system has a heatpump. Indicates if the heatpump is currently locked out.

binary_sensor.<system_name>_hp_lo_ambient_lockout

Aux Heat High Ambient Lockout

Entity is created if your system has auxiliary heat. Indicates if the aux heat is locked out due to high ambient temperature

binary_sensor.<system_name>__auxheat_hi_ambient_lockout

home state

The home state binary sensor reports the current away mode of the S30. A value of 'on' indicates the system is in home mode. A value of 'off' indicates the system is in away mode. This sensor used the "presence" device class, so in Lovelace you will see the value of 'Home' or 'Away'.

binary_sensor.<system_name>_home_state

The S30 has three setpoint states that are possible - Home, Transition and Away. For this binary sensor the Transition and Away states are reported as Away. The detailed information is available within attributes of the binary sensor.

Attribute Type Description
manual_away boolean True if manual away is turned on
smart_away boolean True if smart away has turned on away mode
smart_away_enabled boolean True is smart away is enabled
smart_away_state string State of smart away. See table below for values
smart_away_enabled boolean True is smart away is enabled
smart_away_reset boolean True if smart away has been reset, value may be transient
smart_away_cancel boolean True if smart away has been cancelled, value may be transient
smart_away_setpoint_state string Current setpoint state - "home", "transition", "away" are the observed values

Smart Away State Values

Value Type
enabled cancelled Indicates the system was in smart away and it was cancelled from either the app, panel or home assistant
enabled active Smart away detection is enabled, and smart away has determined you are away
enabled inactive Smart away detection is enabled, and smart away has determined you are home
disabled Smart away is disabled

internet_status (local connections only)

This sensor indicates if the S30 has connectivity to the internet. If you use the Lennox App on your phone, you want this to be in a connected state. If you are using diagnostics you want this is a disconnected state

binary_sensor.<system_name>_internet_status

Note: The S30 can take a while to update this sensor. To accelerate the update, go to the S30 panel, press settings and select WIFI - this seems to cause the S30 to immediately ping the internet.

relay_server (local connections only)

This sensor indicates if the S30 is connected to the Lennox Cloud Relay Server. If you use the Lennox App on your phone, you want this to be in a connected state. If you are using diagnostics you want this is a disconnected state.

Note: The S30 can take a while to update this sensor. To accelerate the update, go to the S30 panel, press settings and select WIFI - this seems to cause the S30 to immediately check the connection to the relay server.

binary_sensor.<system_name>_relay_server

cloud_connected (cloud connections only)

This sensor indicates if the thermostat is "Online" in the Lennox Cloud. The state should be connected. A disconnected state indicates that the integration is able to communicate to the Lennox Cloud but the thermostat is not able to. Typically this indicates a Wifi config issue with the thermostat.

During testing, turning off the wifi router the S30 was connected caused this sensor to become disconnected after 5 minutes. The sensor is configured to be updated every 10 minutes.

Number Entities

diagnostic_level

WARNING Setting the Diagnostic Level may cause system instability if your system is connected to the Lennox Cloud Relay Server. Please review this documentation before proceeding. docs/diagnostics.md

When the power inverter or diagnostic sensors option is enabled, a Number entity is created to allow setting and reporting on the active diagnostic level in the S30. A value of zero indicates diagnostics is disabled. Values of 2 will cause the inverter power and diagnostics to be sent. Other values are invalid. The name of the entity is:

number.<system_name>_diagnostic_level

Note: When enabled the S30 sends much more information. If you are using their IOS / Android App - this may impact the performance and cause S30 crashes. It is not recommended to be toggling this mode frequently. If you are using this feature, you may want to monitor the lennoxS30.state sysuptime attribute. This value will reset to zero when the S30 reboots. The integration will log a warning if this is detected.

circulate_time

The circulate time number allows you to set the percentage of time the fan is on when in circulate mode.

Note: In the Lennox UI it shows Minutes+Seconds per hour for circulate time. However, the underlying commands to the S30 use whole number percents (e.g. 20.0). The Home Assistant Sliders are best suited for numbers not mm:ss, so the decision was made to represent this as percents in Home Assistant. That decision can be revisited if needed.

number.<system_name>_circulate_time

dehumidification_overcooling

Lennox systems with dehumidifiers may have the ability to provide overcooling to lower the humidity when the dehumidification mode is Max. This number allow you to set this over-cooling. Typically is is 0-4 degrees F or 0-2 degrees Celsius.

Button Entities

Reset Smart Hub

When equipment parameters are enabled in configuration, this entity will be created. Pressing this button will reboot the smart hub. The button execution requires that the parameter_safety switch is turned off.

number.<system_name>_reset_smarthub

Reporting Bugs

Please create issues to track bugs. Please include the following information

  • HA version and Integration Version
  • Configuration Settings (local, cloud)
  • Are you using Diagnostic

Please capture the logs with debug turned on.

Debug logging can be enabled by adding the following to your Home Assistant's configuration.yaml:

logger:
  default: warning
  logs:
    custom_components.lennoxs30: debug
    lennoxs30api: debug

Some times I will need a message log. To enable message logging do the following:

  • Go into the integrations configuration
  • Check the "Debug Logging Logs Message" and "Log S30 Messages to a separate file" and enter a file name.

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Detailed Configuration Parameters

This section documents the detailed configuration parameters, that are editable through the UI. This configuration is stored in the config/.storage/core_config_entries file. Editing this file is not recommended.

Parameter Name Type Requirement Default Description
scan_interval int optional 15 Scan interval to check for cloud messages in seconds. 15 seconds is recommended for cloud connections. For local connections this should not be set unless instructed
allergen_defender_switch bool optional false When true creates a switch entity to allow control of allergenDefender mode
fast_scan_interval float optional 0.75 After issuing a command (setpoint change, hvac mode change, etc.) The system goes into a fast scan mode, in order to make the UI more responsive to commands. Primarily used for Cloud Connections. This parameter is the delay between checking for messages.
fast_scan_count int optional 10 After issuing a command (setpoint change, hvac mode change, etc.) The system goes into a fast scan mode, in order to make the UI more responsive to commands. Primarily used for Cloud Connections. This parameter is the number of scans to execute at the faster speed, increasing this may improve UI response time.
timeout int optional 30 seconds local connections; 60 seconds cloud connections. Number of seconds to wait for network calls to complete before declaring a timeout. Use of defaults is recommended.
init_wait_time int optional 30 Amount of time to wait for configuration to arrive from Lennox during integration startup. Increase this value if you see initialization timeouts
app_id string optional uniquely generated Specify the unique application id to use. For Cloud connections, Lennox is very particular - please use this string - mapp0793723676444670468270xx - and replace xx with a value from 00 - 99. Note that each instance of your integration (e.g. prod system, test system) must use a different value for xx. For local connections use a string like ha_dev or ha_prod - must be unique for each connection
create_sensors bool optional false Creates temperature and humidity sensors for each zone
create_inverter_power bool optional false Creates a sensor representing the inverter power usage. This requires configuring the Lennox LCC diagnostic mode to be 2, as opposed to the default value of 0. Use the number.diagnostic_level entity to set this,.
protocol string optional https Selects the protocol to use. The only reason to use this is when developing using the S30 simulator, in which case this should be set to HTTP
message_debug_logging boolean optional True When True messages are logged when debug is enabled. Setting to False omits the message from the debug log file.
log_messages_to_file string optional When set all S30 messages for this connection will the logged to the specified file. If no path is specified, the file will appear on the Home Assistant config directory - the same place the home_assistant.log file is. If you want the fie to be elsewhere specific a full path or relative path to the home assistant root directory. Messages will be logged regardless of debug settings. This provides an easy way to submit the message logs without having to submit all the stuff in the full home assistant log file.
pii_in_message_logs boolean optional False When set to False personal information - email, passwords, street addresses, etc. are redacted from the log files. False is the default and the recommended setting for submitting logs. This parameter exists in the unlikely event this information is needed in troubleshooting.

Migration

New Releases

Migration from 0.1.3 to 0.2.0

In Release 0.2.0 configuration is moved from configuration.yaml to the internal home assistant configuration repository. On startup of 0.2.0 (or later releases), the YAML configuration will be migrated to the repository. After HA starts please check your entities to verify they are working. Once verified remove the lennoxs30 configuration from configuration.yaml. All of your entities should be preserved and the migration should be seamless.

Migration from <0.1.3 to 0.2.0

If you are on older versions of the integration. You may need to adjust your configuration in the YAML fie to meet the new requirements.

  1. Start HA
  2. Look for errors in the log indicating there is missing configuration
  3. Add missing configuration
  4. Restart

Cloud to Local Migration

Cloud to Local (have not upgraded to 0.2.0)

Use Case: You have the integration configured to use the cloud and you want to go local. Current State: You are on 0.1.3

The simplest approach is to edit the configuration.yaml in 0.1.3 and add the ip_address in and restart HA.

When switching from Cloud to Local - new entities are created in Home Assistant. Perform the following steps after restarting:

  • Go into the list of entities and delete the old entities (write down their names if needed)
  • Rename the new entities using the old entity's entity ids.

Cloud to Local (have upgraded to 0.2.0)

Use Case: You have the integration configured to use the cloud and you want to go local. Current State: You are on 0.2.0 or greater.

  • Go into Configuration / Integrations and Delete the cloud integration
  • Add a new integration instance for the local connection.

Migrate to HACS from Manual Installation

Currently on 0.1.3

Perform the following steps:

  1. Comment out the lennoxs30: section from configuration.yaml (use the #)
  2. Moved the old custom_components/lennoxs30 directory to somewhere else so it wouldn't be found. Or delete it. Make sure the lennoxs30 directory no longer exists
  3. Restart HA
  4. Add custom repository in HACS per the Instructions
  5. Add integration in HACS per the instructions
  6. Restart HA
  7. Uncomment the lennoxs30: section from configuration.yaml
  8. Restart HA

Currently on 0.2.0

In 0.2.0 and greater the config for the integration is not stored in configuration.yaml.

Note: These steps are untested. Please provide feedback if this works :-).

Perform the following steps:

  1. Moved the old custom_components/lennoxs30 directory to somewhere else so it wouldn't be found. Or delete it. Make sure the lennoxs30 directory no longer exists
  2. Restart HA
  3. Add custom repository in HACS per the Instructions
  4. Add integration in HACS per the instructions
  5. Restart HA

At this point everything should just work.

Network information

The local connection uses HTTPS to Port 443 outgoing to the S30.

The cloud connection using HTTPS to Port 443 outgoing to the Lennox Cloud.

There are no incoming connections.

When using local connections you can block all outgoing internet access for the S30 and the local connections still work. Of course, doing this disables the ability to use the Lennox App on your phone.

S30 Configuration Considerations

It is recommended to DISABLE automatic software updates on the S30.

Enhancement Requests

Enhancement requests are welcomed and encouraged. Please log issues for us to track enhancements.

Lennox Technical Documents

https://tech.lennoxintl.com/C03e7o14l/VIu12Ch2uV/Corp1817-L8f.pdf https://resources.lennox.com/pdfs/owners/s30/Lennox_iComfortS30_Homeowner_Manual.pdf

Credits

This work is based in part great work done by these folks:

https://github.com/HyperActiveJ

https://github.com/hufman/lennox_lcc

https://github.com/thevoltagesource

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