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**BattleDroid** · August 25, 2018, 12:12 PM

garyb, I did something very similar. The way I did it, when one of the doors or windows opens, i have a script that records Nest status and triggers timer. After 3 minutes, I have an event that turns off the nest. That piece works fine.

I have a problem where I am not able to turn nest back on using script and I had to use combination of events and stripts to turn it back on with the setting that was in place before door was left open.

The command :
hs.SetDeviceValuebyRef(xxx,yyy,true)

where xxx is the ref of Nest HVAC Mode and yyy the desired setting , does not do anything on my system. No error message and Nest stays off.

It sounds like you have been able to use script to turn Nest back on. Do you mind sharing how you did that? I will try that and report back if I can replicate the issue you are experiencing.

Cheers

**spud** · August 25, 2018, 01:10 PM

Originally posted by BattleDroid View Post

The command :
hs.SetDeviceValuebyRef(xxx,yyy,true)

where xxx is the ref of Nest HVAC Mode and yyy the desired setting , does not do anything on my system. No error message and Nest stays off.

This is expected, the SetDeviceValueByRef only set the value of the device but does not control it. You need to use the Device Control API (CAPI): https://homeseer.com/support/homesee...ontrol_api.htm

**BattleDroid** · August 25, 2018, 01:45 PM

Originally posted by spud View Post

This is expected, the SetDeviceValueByRef only set the value of the device but does not control it. You need to use the Device Control API (CAPI): https://homeseer.com/support/homesee...ontrol_api.htm

Thanks for clarification. If you have a code to do this that you can copy/paste here, that would speed up my learning process.

Cheers

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