Home Assistant: LG SmartThinQ Component

A Home Assistant component for controlling LG HVAC devices via their SmartThinQ platform, based on WideQ.

Here's how to use this:

1. Clone this repository into your ~/.homeassistant directory under custom_components and name it smartthinq. For example, you might do something like this:

   $ cd ~/.homeassistant
   $ mkdir custom_components
   $ cd custom_components
   $ git clone https://github.com/sampsyo/hass-smartthinq.git smartthinq
   

2. Navigate to the WideQ directory. You can either use the copy installed by Home Assistant, or clone it separately by typing something like:

   $ git clone https://github.com/sampsyo/wideq.git
   $ cd wideq
   

   Authenticate with the SmartThinQ service to get a refresh token by running the WideQ example script. (Eventually, I would like to add a feature to the Home Assistant component that can let you log in through a UI, but I haven't gotten there yet.) Run this in the wideq directory:

   $ python3 example.py
   

   The script will ask you to open a browser, log in, and then paste the URL you're redirected to. It will then write a JSON file called wideq_state.json.

   Look inside this file for a key called "refresh_token" and copy the value.

3. Add a stanza to your Home Assistant configuration.yaml like this:

   climate:
       - platform: smartthinq
         refresh_token: YOUR_TOKEN_HERE
   

   Start up Home Assistant and hope for the best.

Credits

This is by Adrian Sampson. The license is MIT.