The SmartIR climate entities cannot be used to add controls to the Area Card in Home Assistant.
These, to be clear:
I can add climate entities of my newer A/C with cloud integration (like the one in the previous image), but not smartIR climate entities, they simply don't show in the selectable list at all.
This is where you add such controls to the area card:
I suspect the reason is that SmartIR creates orphan entities without a device and the area card search for devices, not sparse entities.
Yes, I've set the area of the SmartIR climate entities, if you're wondering :)
I'm using the latest SmartIR version (1.18.1, via HACS), Home Assistant OS 2026.8.1.
The SmartIR climate entities cannot be used to add controls to the Area Card in Home Assistant.
These, to be clear:
I can add climate entities of my newer A/C with cloud integration (like the one in the previous image), but not smartIR climate entities, they simply don't show in the selectable list at all.
This is where you add such controls to the area card:
I suspect the reason is that SmartIR creates orphan entities without a device and the area card search for devices, not sparse entities.
Yes, I've set the area of the SmartIR climate entities, if you're wondering :)
I'm using the latest SmartIR version (1.18.1, via HACS), Home Assistant OS 2026.8.1.