Scripting

[jayman13]

Forgive me as I am not a programmer. But I am trying to change the target temperature by script. I used hs.setdevicevaluebyref and I am able to change the value of the device in homeseer but the actual nest device doesn't change. The reason I am using scripting to do it is so I can use voice recognition to change the thermostat. I then have a script parse out the temperature in the hs.lastvoicecommand and use hs.setdevicevaluebyref to set the temperature. Anything I can do to change it? thanks.

[spud]

you can't use SetDeviceValueByRef to control a device from a script, you have to use CAPI: http://www.homeseer.com/support/home...ontrol_api.htm

there is a lot of CAPI examples in the forum.
Let me know if you can't figure it out, I'll try to come up with an example for the Nest target temperature

[jayman13]

you can't use SetDeviceValueByRef to control a device from a script, you have to use CAPI: http://www.homeseer.com/support/home...ontrol_api.htm

there is a lot of CAPI examples in the forum.
Let me know if you can't figure it out, I'll try to come up with an example for the Nest target temperature

I was afraid of that. I've been trying to avoid looking into the dreaded CAPI but I guess i'll have to. Thanks.

[tenholde]

CAPI is your friend

[jayman13]

CAPI is your friend

That may be true but all I had to do was use this to control it: hs.CAPIControlHandler(hs.CAPIGetSingleControl(215, False, 1, False, True))