Hi everyone!
We’re starting a small series on the « French-style home », and we begin with the part we never look at as long as it works: the boiler. Frisquet boilers are everywhere in our homes, and with the Frisquet Connect box, they can now be controlled from Gladys. @Philippe44, you asked for it in Chaudière Frisquet I know your boiler wasn’t compatible with the Connect box, so I can’t promise anything, but I wanted to let you know ^^
What it does
- One device per heating zone (up to three zones):
- the room temperature and the current setpoint;
- the comfort, reduced, and frost protection setpoints, adjustable in half-degree increments;
- the mode: program, comfort, reduced, or frost protection;
- the current override, the boost if the zone offers it, and a clear phrase like « Comfort (program) ».
- The boiler:
- the outdoor temperature (if the sensor is there);
- the hot water: on/off and mode (MAX, Eco, Scheduled Eco, Eco+…);
- the alarms, vacation mode, standby;
- the gas consumed this month and this year, heating and hot water separated.
- A widget to switch with one gesture to program, comfort, reduced, or override. No frost protection button in the widget: a sliding finger should not turn off the heating.
- Scene actions for heating mode and hot water, and a trigger when the boiler displays a new alarm.
- In French, English, German, and Spanish.
The nice thing
The alarm goes to away → heating in frost protection and hot water off; on return, program and hot water restored
The phone comes home earlier on a Tuesday → comfort in the living room until the next program change
The boiler displays an alarm → Telegram message with the code, to call the heating engineer before getting cold
Installation
Gladys 5.2 minimum.
It will arrive in the store at the next indexer run. In the meantime: Integrations → Install from GitHub, with GitHub - guim31/gladys-frisquet: Frisquet Connect boilers (zones, setpoints, hot water) for Gladys Assistant · GitHub
- You need a Frisquet boiler with the Frisquet Connect box, and an account in the Frisquet Connect app.
- In Gladys: the email and password from the app, then Test the connection.
- Discovery tab: add the boiler and the zones.
Honest small reservations
- Everything goes through the Frisquet cloud, and the box relays the boiler only every few minutes: a change takes a few minutes to arrive.
- The vacation mode is read-only, and the weekly programming is followed but still modified in the app.
- Changing the setpoint from Gladys permanently changes the one of the current mode, like in the app (not a temporary override).
- On a multi-zone installation, I don’t know yet if the override applies to zone 1 or to all.
- The gas is the one Frisquet calculates, month by month. It does not enter Gladys’ energy tracking, which would otherwise count it as electricity.
- Developed without the boiler. I checked from my place that the connection to the real Frisquet cloud goes all the way and properly rejects a fake account, but no one has used it with a real account yet: if you have a Frisquet Connect box, your feedback interests me a lot. Some commands come from the Home Assistant and homebridge projects, which have not all validated them on a real boiler.
Like the previous ones, developed with Claude Code. Independent project, not affiliated with Frisquet.