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title: "Z-Wave Thermostat"
description: "Instructions how to setup the Z-Wave thermostat within Home Assistant."
date: 2016-04-03 9:52
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To get your Z-Wave thermostat or HVAC unit working with Home Assistant, follow the instructions for the general [Z-Wave component](/components/zwave/).

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Thermostats with support for fan modes or different operating modes, will be handled like a HVAC device and will also be detected as one. 

If the thermostat support different operationg modes, you will get one thermostat entity for each mode. These can be hidden with settings using the customize setting in the `configuration.yaml` file.
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