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    Honeywell TH8320WF supported by Homeseer?

    My local power company is offering the Honeywell TH8320WF Wi-Fi thermostat free of charge under their energy savings program. Before having their installer come by, I'm checking to see if Homeseer can support it. A read through the IP plugin forums comes up with numerous activities underway however it seems that this may not be supported currently and worse Honeywell may not have made the protocol available.

    Does anyone have this model working in HS2 Pro or HS3?

    Thanks!

    #2
    As far as I know it's currently not supported due to, as you stated, the API not being released. Someone recently posted a class that can interface with this stat but I do not believe it's been incorporated into a plugin yet.
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      #3
      Thanks for the input

      Now I need to decide on cancelling the installation of these thermostats.

      I'm currently using RCS serial thermostats on ZCV4 controllers and they work fine with HS2PRO. I was considering converting to zWave and moving to HS3PRO but that is expensive and getting two of these Honeywell WiFi's would reduce my conversion cost... if they would work.

      Still waiting for Homeseer to fix the RCS Serial plugin for HS3.

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        #4
        I would go for them as there are more and more WIFI stats being added to the plugins that do support them so it's only a matter of time and in the mean time you can use the web app to control them while you wait for support.
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          #5
          Honeywell Thermostat

          Has anyone tried registering for the Honeywell API?

          http://www.ecc.honeywell.com/api

          It sounds like it may be available soon (hopefully that means weeks not months), but I'm travelling and perhaps I've misread something.

          Frustrating as I'd love to beable to tie one of these guys into the system, but in the meantime I guess I can just replicate it and its interface using their current z-wave thermostat which is cheaper.

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            #6
            Originally posted by LCrawfo View Post
            Has anyone tried registering for the Honeywell API?

            http://www.ecc.honeywell.com/api

            It sounds like it may be available soon (hopefully that means weeks not months), but I'm travelling and perhaps I've misread something.

            Frustrating as I'd love to beable to tie one of these guys into the system, but in the meantime I guess I can just replicate it and its interface using their current z-wave thermostat which is cheaper.
            Yes, I've tried registering several times for the API and Honeywell does not respond. They are only interested in providing information to very large integrators. Companies much larger than HomeSeer and certainly larger than indy developers like me.
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              #7
              Experiences with OPOWER and TH8320WF

              I've had two of these installed for nearly two months now, supplied by my power company.

              Local control on the thermostats is fairly basic. A few functions can be controlled:
              - System status (Heat/Cool/Off)
              - Fan (on, off, auto)
              - Temperature up/down
              - Setup functions (too many to list here)
              - Three level backlight; off/low/high. Soft green glow is crisp and visible, even pleasant. At night even the low setting is fairly bright.
              - NO setup of wake/leave/return/sleep schedules locally... only via OPOWER

              Within 2 weeks, one of the thermostats had a WiFi module failure. Honeywell replaced it quickly and professionally. Both devices continue to function.

              OPOWER cloud based controller:
              - The iPhone/Android app is fairly basic.
              - Supports schedule setup for seven day, wake/leave/return/sleep
              - Remote control over temperature setting, fan setting, and system mode
              - The app has NO positive acknowledgement through to the thermostat. The display reflects what the app thinks the settings are when the app is used to change system settings.
              - The app can display the actual thermostat status if and when the OPOWER servers are in contact with both the thermostat and the app.
              *** This means that a command while away from home does not actually execute on the thermostat but it gives the appearance of having succeeded!!!

              The cloud and server experience:
              In the month of use, I have experienced a large number of OPOWER server outages, perhaps ten or more times when various anomalies cropped up.
              - Numerous times when the app showed completion of a command, yet the thermostat did not receive instruction from OPOWER. Many of these events were confirmed when arriving home from a trip, the thermostat was in a previously set "hold" efficient and uncomfortably hot status.
              - A couple of occasions where, away from home, the app was used to cancel the "return home" preset event and leave the temperature up so energy was not wasted while the house was vacant. Well, again, no command made it through to the thermostat due to OPOWER server outages.

              I've spoken with the utility company technical support who are aggressively promoting the program yet openly confirm that OPOWER servers experience outages, extreme slow downs, loss of commands, and serious capacity issues.

              In summary, great idea, inexpensive since the utility co supplies the hardware and the service, right direction. Implementation needs lots of improvement. The reliability issue has cast serious confidence issues on this overall.

              Hope this is useful information to some automation enthusiasts.

              Also hope Honeywell releases the API so a plugin for this thermostat can be written and get OPOWER out of the loop.

              In the meantime, I'm considering alternatives to get out from the reliability issues.
              Last edited by SteveN1; August 22, 2014, 10:08 PM.

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