Veralite

[James Sentman]

Always so happy to get people on a recent version :) 

The thermostat stuff in the Vera is a bit of a nightmare, how can every thermostat send different labels for the setpoints and such?! 

if you can put the interface into debug mode and collect some polling of the thermostat I can see what the data is and possibly get it where it needs to go, and if it’s so antithetical to the rest of the logic then we can write a script in XTension to pull it out and put it into units. 

There may be some magic they do on currentsetpoint vs the heat/cold setpoints and they might not all update in all modes or something frustrating like that. 

Send me some of those captures off the list and I’ll see what I can find out about it. We may need to experiment with the mode state for energy thing, there are a couple of different ways it might be set and it’s not clearly documented…

You can force a poll of the thermostat to generate the log items once debug mode is on by doing a query from the command line for any of the units in the thermostat. Query “name of thermostat current temp unit” will do it.


> On Nov 21, 2015, at 12:50 AM, Dave Fleck <dfleck at pacifier.com> wrote:
> 
> I’m a loooong time XTension user, and I just upgraded my OS from 10.6 to 10.10 so I could upgrade to a much more recent version of XTension (currently 902). After that I added a Veralite to the mix so I could get my thermostat and AEON energy monitor working.
> 
> I have a Trane thermostat hooked to the Veralite. Three set points are showing up in XTension:
> Address: 18.SETPOINT, Property: vera name: Thermostat Setpoint, Value: 75
> Address: 18.COOL, Property: vera name: Thermostat Cool Setpoint, Value: 75
> Address: 18.HEAT, Property: vera name: Thermostat Heat Setpoint, Value: 75
> in Vera there are variables
> Currentsetpoint - 70
> Currentsetpoint Cool - 75
> Currentsetpoint Heat - 70
> So it seems XTension has Setpoint  and Setpoint Heat wrong.
> I would also love to have access to the Energy/Normal setting (I’m guessing ModeStateForEnergy).
> 
> Just loving’ all of the features I’ve taken advantage of lately (Vera, XBee for a lightning sensor I’ve yet to get working, json from an Arduino hooked to my weather station, Geofancy)

Thanks,
 James


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