Andrus

You need to directly address the aircon entity (input.number temperature ???) if you want to set the new temperature. You can't use a climate entity as target, the climate entity...

The climate template entity is useful in these situations: - you have a heater with on-off switch entity - you have an air conditioner with a on-off switch entity and...

> I don't know how to get the thermostat set point and create an entity So you don't get/set this value in HA? The model of the zigbee thermostat can...

For your needs no read-only templates (used for mapping) can be used (like "hvac_action_template") Use "set_hvac_mode" instead. Take a look here: https://developers.home-assistant.io/docs/core/entity/climate/#hvac-action