I participate in a program called ohmhour. About 1/week (exact timing is unpredictable and always changes) I am incented to reduce the energy usage in my house. The more I reduce relative to my forecast (which is based on past usage at the same time of day), the more money I earn.
I have set up a series of events in homeseer that lower the energy usage when one of these ohmhours occur (e.g., turn off thermostat, power down computer etc...) I am now looking to automate the execution of those events in a more seamless fashion.
OhmConnect provides a unique url/website that you can go to to see when there will be an ohmhour.
https://forum.ohmconnect.com/discussion/318/ohmhour-api
https://login.ohmconnect.com/verify-ohm-hour/ERZ0lowy
It looks to be some sort of xml feed or api (I'm not a programmer so have probably called this the wrong thing).
This is what is on the website when I go to it.
<ohmhour>
<address>my address</address>
<active>None</active>
</ohmhour>
The Active row has three states:
None: No Ohmhour scheduled
False: OhmHour is scheduled to happen soon
True: OhmHour is happening now
I want to create a virtual device in homeseer that mirrors these three states so that I can run my other events as these states change.
Is there some type of script that will monitor this url and make changes to my homeseer virtual device as the 'active' line changes?
I have set up a series of events in homeseer that lower the energy usage when one of these ohmhours occur (e.g., turn off thermostat, power down computer etc...) I am now looking to automate the execution of those events in a more seamless fashion.
OhmConnect provides a unique url/website that you can go to to see when there will be an ohmhour.
https://forum.ohmconnect.com/discussion/318/ohmhour-api
https://login.ohmconnect.com/verify-ohm-hour/ERZ0lowy
It looks to be some sort of xml feed or api (I'm not a programmer so have probably called this the wrong thing).
This is what is on the website when I go to it.
<ohmhour>
<address>my address</address>
<active>None</active>
</ohmhour>
The Active row has three states:
None: No Ohmhour scheduled
False: OhmHour is scheduled to happen soon
True: OhmHour is happening now
I want to create a virtual device in homeseer that mirrors these three states so that I can run my other events as these states change.
Is there some type of script that will monitor this url and make changes to my homeseer virtual device as the 'active' line changes?
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