2gig Thermostat controlling zwave outlet

Other Devices & Integrations Climate Control & Temperature Sensors
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Hey everyone.

I have a Vera2, UI5, and run all of my homes interior lighting on Vera. My home is older so I rely on baseboard heaters and typical plugin space heaters to keep my house warm.

I recently picked up a Lowes Iris (2gig) thermostat to tinker with and at the moment am somewhat stuck.

What I want to do is pretty simple (to me anyway) In my living room / kitchen I have 2 space heaters, both connected to Zwave outlets (don’t worry I’m well under the 1500w limit) and I’d like to have these controlled via the termostat’s temp sensor.

IE I want to keep the living room at 70F, so if its 69 or less the switches are on, and 70+ the switches are off.

Looking through the default UI I don’t see any way to do this. I don’t have central hvac and don’t plan to install it anytime soon.

Ideas? Thoughts? How can I code this up?

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should be easy to do… you can create 2 scenes, one to to turn on the heater and one to turn it off.

If you are using UI5, go to Automation / Create a scene. for the trigger you should choose your tstat device and select “if the temperature goes above” and enter “70” as value. under “devices” turn off the relevant outlet. Save. You are all set.

repeat the above to create a scene to turn on the outlet if temperature goes below 70. for more info: http://docs5.mios.com/doc.php?language=1&manual=1&platform=3Lite&page=automation

Note: sometimes Vera isn’t 100% reliable, so it’s a good idea to have a fail safe measure, like a notification if temperature goes above or below a threshold, periodic checks to see if temperature is ok, etc.

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Duh, completely forgot about Triggers (odd as I set one up for my door locks)

Thanks a TON, works great!

[quote=“capjay, post:2, topic:173073”]should be easy to do… you can create 2 scenes, one to to turn on the heater and one to turn it off.

If you are using UI5, go to Automation / Create a scene. for the trigger you should choose your tstat device and select “if the temperature goes above” and enter “70” as value. under “devices” turn off the relevant outlet. Save. You are all set.

repeat the above to create a scene to turn on the outlet if temperature goes below 70. for more info: http://docs5.mios.com/doc.php?language=1&manual=1&platform=3Lite&page=automation

Note: sometimes Vera isn’t 100% reliable, so it’s a good idea to have a fail safe measure, like a notification if temperature goes above or below a threshold, periodic checks to see if temperature is ok, etc.[/quote]