The base layer (loss, heat, bias) showed values only, so a zone with weeks of
samples looked equally trustworthy whether or not the data ever varied its
inputs. Each base coefficient now reports a confidence from its own posterior
variance, as the extended and ventilation layers already did: it stays at 0
for `heat` while the relay never cycles and below 0.8 for `loss` and `bias`
while the indoor-outdoor difference is steady. Readiness is unchanged.
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Each temperature sensor used to be its own "room", so a room with two
sensors counted twice and comfort importance was tied to sensors.
zones.py adds Zone: a name, one or more sensors with sensor weights, a
comfort weight, an optional target offset and adjacent zones (made
symmetric). Sensor weights only combine readings; comfort weights only
steer the MPC; neither touches the learned thermal coefficients.
Zones are config subentries (HA's native "Add zone" / edit / delete on
the integration page), with validation that a sensor belongs to one
zone and is not an outdoor source, and a sensor-weight step for
multi-sensor zones. Initial setup still asks for room sensors and
weights and creates one zone per sensor. Configure no longer asks for
rooms or weights.
Config entry version 3. Migrating from 2 turns each room sensor into a
one-sensor zone with its comfort weight and the sensor's entity ID as
the zone key, so learned models, forecast entities (now linked to their
zone, so deleting a zone removes them) and accuracy statistics carry
over. Older versions cannot load a version 3 entry; rolling back needs
the HA backup.
A zone learns only across polls that used the same sensors (a sensor
dropping out shifts the mean by its offset); the new poll outcome
"sensors_changed" reports this. Status renames: input_quality.zones
(per-sensor detail nested), excluded_zones, retired_zone_models; adds
zone_names. Invalid stored comfort weights now fall back to 1.0, so the
invalid_weights status is gone.
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Electrical heat, ventilation, wind and inter-zone exchange each need
their own coefficient next to the existing loss/heat/bias, and each must
stay physically bounded and not claim precision it does not have.
learning.py adds FeatureLearner: exponentially weighted RLS over named
features with per-feature bounds, priors at 0 for new effects, the same
covariance windup bound as the base model, and a linked bound that keeps
the directional wind term from cancelling more than the isotropic one.
Each prior is sized as "worth N typical samples" (20 for new effects,
200 for zone coupling, which is weakly identifiable). Confidence is the
share of a coefficient's information that comes from data; the standard
error uses a bias-corrected running noise estimate. Saved models are
matched by feature name, so adding a heat source, window or neighbour
retrains only that coefficient and keeps the covariance of the rest.
The existing 3-parameter learner now uses the same RLS step, covariance
bound and positive-definiteness check (behavior unchanged; all existing
tests pass).
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There was no evidence of how accurate the thermal model is: the only
number was an in-sample 5-minute error.
At every poll, record each room's reading, the outdoor temperature, the
radiator-lag estimate and the model parameters. 15, 30, 60 and 120
minutes later, replay the room from that poll with the parameters it
had then (out of sample), the outdoor temperature held constant and the
radiator lag that actually followed from the relay's real history, and
compare with the reading now. A no-change forecast is scored alongside.
Only spans with regular polls and a well-known lag are scored. 7 days
of per-room statistics are saved with the model (optional "evaluation"
payload key; about 18 KB at most).
Four new sensors, Heating MPC Forecast Error 15/30/60/120 min, show the
mean absolute error with bias, persistence error, skill and per-room
detail. On the synthetic lagged plant the 60-minute error is 0.03 °C
against 0.39 °C for persistence.
Room forecast entities gain forecast_15min and plan_15min attributes
and are labelled counterfactual. Volatile attributes are unrecorded.
The model is now saved after scoring, so saved statistics are current.
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Status showed accepted sample counts but not why learning was slow.
Each room's model now counts samples it rejected (outliers, implausible
inputs), persisted as an optional rejected_count key and shown as
models.<room>.rejected_samples. Status also counts every poll outcome
since start (sample_results_since_start).
Add tests that a model in the exact shape 0.2.1 wrote restores with its
coefficients, and that today's saved model still has the keys and types
0.2.1's restore code reads, so rolling back keeps the learned model.
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Polling only sees the relay's current state and last change, so two or
more changes between polls (e.g. an on/off round trip) made the lag
estimate unknown and paused learning for about half an hour.
Subscribe to the relay's state changes (read-only) and integrate every
recorded change between polls. Because HA delivers these events one
loop iteration late, the current state stays authoritative and fills in
a change not yet recorded. Unknown periods (non on/off states, missed
transitions, event overflow) still restart the estimate with an
explicit error bound. Without the listener, behavior is as before.
HA skips unload callbacks after unexpected setup errors, so setup now
removes the listener itself on any failure and registers it for unload
only once setup succeeds.
Tested on HA Core 2025.12.0 and 2026.2.3.
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The lag proxy was reset to the new relay command at every relay change
and after any skipped interval, so it read 1.0 straight after ON and 0.0
straight after OFF. This disabled the lag model around every boiler
cycle: on a synthetic lagged plant cycled by a hysteresis thermostat the
learner's heat gain came out 34% low (0.079 vs 0.12) and the loss term
43% low, and the optimizer started post-transition plans from the wrong
lag.
Track the lag at every poll with a valid relay state, independently of
room sensors. Integrate a single change between polls at its
last_changed time. For ambiguous cases (round trip between polls, relay
outage, restart, clock jump) restart from time-in-state with an explicit
error half-width, and learn only once it is at most 0.1 (about 32 min
after an HA restart). The same synthetic test now learns 0.1195/0.00389
(true 0.12/0.004).
Expose heat_lag, heat_lag_uncertainty and sample_result on Status so
users can see why a poll was or was not learned. The HA test fixture
relay now has an hour-old timestamp; a new test covers a freshly
written relay state.
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With forgetting 0.999 and no heat excitation (summer, long OFF periods),
the heat-coefficient variance grew by 1/0.999 per sample without limit:
about 8.7e12 after 104 simulated OFF days. The first ON samples could
then swing coefficients to their bounds, and accumulated asymmetry
approached the absolute 1e-8 restore tolerance, past which a restart
silently reset the whole model.
Symmetrize P and bound its diagonal by the prior after every update
(row/column scaling keeps it positive definite). Restore uses a relative
round-off tolerance and applies the same bound, so wound-up v0.2.1
models load instead of being discarded. Payload schema is unchanged.
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