I’m looking to replace my 12 year old thermostat with one that I can connect to my vera. One feature that I really like on my current thermostat is that it tells me when I need to change my filters. I know there are thermostats that display that filter status on the screen just like my current one, but I’d like to know if that data is being sent to the vera so I can get the vera to notify me via email or sms. If so which brand and model of thermostat does that. I know that many people have trane and some honeywell, which are the two that I’ve been looking at. Thx.
I am not positive if this is implemented in the zwave protocol. I have not seen this.
- Garrett
My Z-Wave Thermostat (RCS, which the Trane is apparently a rebadging of) doesn’t expose the filter clock to Z-Wave.
Perhaps you could roll your own chess-clock. Start by using dataMine to count the cumulative number of minutes that the fan is running. Then compare against a threshold, and notify when the threshold has been exceeded. Somehow. This is all a bit handwavy because it would involve coding stuff that currently doesn’t exist.
Nobody has ever asked about this before, so if it’s important to you then you will probably have to do it yourself.
[quote=“futzle, post:3, topic:175236”]My Z-Wave Thermostat (RCS, which the Trane is apparently a rebadging of) doesn’t expose the filter clock to Z-Wave.
Perhaps you could roll your own chess-clock. Start by using dataMine to count the cumulative number of minutes that the fan is running. Then compare against a threshold, and notify when the threshold has been exceeded. Somehow. This is all a bit handwavy because it would involve coding stuff that currently doesn’t exist.
Nobody has ever asked about this before, so if it’s important to you then you will probably have to do it yourself.[/quote]
That is a good alternative. It may require a little work on your part, but it is certainly doable.
- Garrett
Great suggestions. I appreciate the quick response!