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Fridges and freezers

Opens with a tap on the icon that blinks in the clock's top-right corner, the « Froid » entry of the tablet's « Aller à l'écran » list in Home Assistant, « Frigos » in the Agenda family of the navigation wheel (long press on the central card), or a tap or a long press of the clock or of a button top right when the blueprint gives it « Froid (réfrigérateurs, congélateurs) · Cold (fridges, freezers) » (home screen).

The fridges and freezers window: one card per appliance, its temperature coloured against its norm, its state and its 24-hour minimum and maximum

The window « Frigos et congélateurs » shows your fridges and freezers, one card each, up to four:

  • Icon and name: a fridge or a snowflake (freezer), the sensor's name cut with « … » when it is too long.
  • Temperature, in green within the norm, in orange for attention, in red for a serious problem.
  • Status: « Conforme », « Trop chaud depuis 14 h 32 », « Coup de chaud », « Trop froid », « Porte ouverte ? », « Porte mal fermée », « Capteur muet »…
  • Lowest and highest of the last 24 hours, and the norm (fridge 0 to 5 °C, freezer -18 °C at most).
  • Curve of the last 24 hours, one point per hour and the current value, between the dashed lines of the norm.
  • Last incident: its cause, when it started, how long it lasted and the temperature it reached — or « Aucun incident ».

One or two appliances sit on one row; three or four on two rows of two.

What Home Assistant checks (the tab5_froid.yaml package, thresholds at the top of its script):

Fridge Freezer
Attention (orange) 15-minute mean above 5 °C or below 0 °C 15-minute mean above -15 °C
Serious (red) above 8 °C for 30 minutes, or 10 °C reached above -12 °C for 30 minutes, or -10 °C reached
Door open? (orange) +2 °C since the lowest of the last 30 minutes +4 °C
Door not closed (red) the same rise still there after 20 minutes, without cooling down
Sensor silent (orange) no reading for 30 minutes

On the home screen, each problem is an alert of the central card (orange or red), like the others: a tap marks it as read; it comes back only if it gets worse (another cause or level). A serious problem also makes a red fridge icon blink in the clock's top-right corner, as long as it lasts; a tap on it opens this window.

Setting up in Home Assistant, where to find the lists: Settings → Devices & services → Entities, then search « Tab5 · réfrigérateurs » or « Tab5 · congélateurs » (entities select.tab5_refrigerateurs and select.tab5_congelateurs); or the dashboard's Tab5 settings view, section Home, tiles « Fridges (Cold popup) » and « Freezers (Cold popup) ». Each is a drop-down list: open it, pick an appliance's temperature sensor (« ○ » becomes « ✓ »), then the next one; each entry shows the sensor's name, then its entity ID. Four appliances at most in all; picking a ticked sensor again removes it. Only temperature sensors with statistics are offered (state_class: measurement). With no appliance chosen, the window gives this path. The alerts can be turned off with « Tab5 · alertes : réfrigérateurs et congélateurs ». This needs the tab5_froid.yaml package of this version.

Like every window, it closes with its ×, a tap on the dark area around it, or after 45 s without a touch.