Hi,
I'm automating (for the first time) my new infrared panel heaters and hoping to get some wisdom on how to control them with HS3.
In each room I'll have a temp sensor (Arduino + DHT22), a tablet running HS Touch (which I've not used yet), a UPB or z-wave switch or relay and a heater.
I don't want to use wall mount thermostats because I want only one interface (the tablet) in each room.
I've got the temperature and switch showing up in Homeseer and the heater turns on and off just fine.
Now I want to make it intelligent and do things like:
- turn the heater on/off if temp goes more than 0.5 deg below/above desired temp
- turn temp down to 14 deg C overnight
- increase temp to temp shown on tablet during day
- turn heater off if we're on vacation or back on if we're on the way home
So far I have a giant ugly series of if-and-then commands in my event page just to get started and I haven't looked at variables or scenes yet.
Is this best done with variables, scenes, scripts and events in Homeseer?
Is there a plugin that will do it for me?
Is there another method that will make it really easy or well organised?
Thanks,
Phil
I'm automating (for the first time) my new infrared panel heaters and hoping to get some wisdom on how to control them with HS3.
In each room I'll have a temp sensor (Arduino + DHT22), a tablet running HS Touch (which I've not used yet), a UPB or z-wave switch or relay and a heater.
I don't want to use wall mount thermostats because I want only one interface (the tablet) in each room.
I've got the temperature and switch showing up in Homeseer and the heater turns on and off just fine.
Now I want to make it intelligent and do things like:
- turn the heater on/off if temp goes more than 0.5 deg below/above desired temp
- turn temp down to 14 deg C overnight
- increase temp to temp shown on tablet during day
- turn heater off if we're on vacation or back on if we're on the way home
So far I have a giant ugly series of if-and-then commands in my event page just to get started and I haven't looked at variables or scenes yet.
Is this best done with variables, scenes, scripts and events in Homeseer?
Is there a plugin that will do it for me?
Is there another method that will make it really easy or well organised?
Thanks,
Phil
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