IVT, Bosch heat pump easy integration, Home Assistant

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Updated 2025-10-16 !

In search of the optimal solution on how to interface our IVT Heat pump, first try here, I stumbled over a nice integration for Home Assistant(HA). A first quick setup is shown at the right.

The first obstacle was that it was HA which I knew about but never used.  So it was "back too school" and doing a blog post about a HA Core install.


Intro
You need some variant of a HA server installed. You could use the HA core install mentioned above, no ! deprecated, but if you are dedicating a Raspberry Pi to just run HA I really recommend HA OS installed via the Raspberry Pi installer.

Now my HA installation is running on a device with Linux KVM.

You also must have HACS installed in HA.

Installing
There are install instructions but not really up to date for the latest HA releases, but I think you will manage. Im using the XMPP interface and the only comment I have is regarding the credentials.

In my case the IP module in the heat pump had a label with information

Loginname:    08nnnnnnn            => Serial number of device

Passwort:     nH3N-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx  => Access token(Including the "-")


and for the IVT Anywhere app 

Personal password:    nnnnnnnn     => Password


After the installation is done the "Temperature circle" shown above will be seen in "Overview".
In my case 6 devices and 58 entities appeared. I disabled all controls and enabled some entities to create the chart below.

Charts
I have a lot more to learn about charts in HA so I took the shortcut via the Node-RED(NR) application. To get the data, from the enabled entities, into NR, i used the HA poll state node and created the chart. I use the Heatpump(HP) app to change settings so therefore I'm just interested to monitor the HP.

Comments

  1. Anonymous8 January 2025 at 16:14

    Do you share your code for the setup above?

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    1. Pyssel i livet8 January 2025 at 17:00

      There is no additional code needed, just follow the instructions.

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    2. Anonymous9 January 2025 at 12:03

      I mean for Home Assistant view shown on top right

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    3. Pyssel i livet9 January 2025 at 19:40

      The view is installed together with the integration. But here is generic_thermostat climate integration available in HA, very similar, just Google.

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  2. Anonymous28 March 2025 at 00:27

    Hi, is there some instructions on how the Greenline HE C6-C11 E6-E11 can be controlled using CAN bus using a microcontroller/computer, without the need for the IVT Anywhere Gateway?

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    1. Pyssel i livet29 March 2025 at 07:36

      Hi ! Not familiar with that model, but isn't the HP shipped with the mentioned gateway ?

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