I recently moved into a new home and was getting ready to install my Insteon thermostats. The existing thermostats in the home, which are fairly nice units, have an energy monitoring feature that allows you to view (in time) how long the system ran for based on today, yesterday, this week, last week, and in total since manually reset. I've been finding this feature very helpful as I acclimate myself to the new home and the temperature setpoints that I will be using. I would like to re-create these energy usage statistics using HS3 and this plugin. Does anybody know of an easy way to do this? Is there any way to tie into the built-in HS3 energy feature? Ultimately I would like to have these values presented on my HSTouch screens as well.
The only way that I can think of solving this is with a bunch of events and scripting. It seems like I would need events that trigger when a new day starts, when a new week starts and some manually refreshed event to allow for the total usage being reset if desired. Then I suppose I could tie into Counters and use events that update the Counters values when the Plug-in reports that the HVAC units started or stopped running. Can anyone think of an easier way to set this all up or offer some tips in how to do this with scripts/events?
The only way that I can think of solving this is with a bunch of events and scripting. It seems like I would need events that trigger when a new day starts, when a new week starts and some manually refreshed event to allow for the total usage being reset if desired. Then I suppose I could tie into Counters and use events that update the Counters values when the Plug-in reports that the HVAC units started or stopped running. Can anyone think of an easier way to set this all up or offer some tips in how to do this with scripts/events?
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