How can I set tempurature in my office different than bedroom

Other Devices & Integrations Climate Control & Temperature Sensors
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I have a ac unit that controls my master bedroom/office and in the office it’s hot during the day but bedroom stays cool. Any way I can switch this over with zwave or automated solution?

Unfortunately I do not have the size vents in my central a/c setup that will work with the econet vents

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If you have ruled out the econet vents and having your AC company zone your setup (not a Vera solution, but good if you have separate vents and some $), then about all I can think of is to automate a fan. A temperature sensor (z-wave or 433) can be used with a z-wave fan controller + PLEG logic. Meaning the office may be hot, but at least you could automate turning on the fan. I would also use a motion detector to only turn on the fan when the office is occupied. I do this in my home office…

The cheapest way would be one of the z-wave multi-sensors (Aeon, Fibaro ~ $60 ) for motion and temp, plus one of the new GE z-wave fan controllers (~ $50). I use Leviton z-wave fan contollers (~ $120), but only because the GEs were not yet available…

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That is a great idea on this setup. I decided to put a Chandelier in the office instead of a fan but I am seeing that will need to be switched back for sure.

Are you using the aeon labs multisensor to accomplish the occupied/tempurature monitoring for the fan?

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I am using both the current temperature and the cool setting temp off my thermostat, plus occupancy via a Leviton EnOcean Occupancy Sensor (hard way to do it).

But the Aeon Labs ought to work… And you could just use a portable fan + a z-wave plug-in module if you didn’t want to do a ceiling fan.

Some of my PLEG logic below - I only turn on the fan if the current temp is above 4 degrees below the thermostat cool temp setting, and only if the thermostat is in Normal Mode (not in Energy Saving mode) and only if we have had 3 occupancy detections within 10 minutes and only if we haven’t turned the fan on or off within the last 5 minutes. In other rooms I vary the speed of the fan to low/medium/high, but in the office, I just use on/off at the medium speed level.

Triggers:

[ul][li] OfficeFanOn Office Fan is turned on
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[li] OfficeOccupancy Office Occupancy armed is tripped
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[li] SecondFloorNormalMode Second Floor Thermostat set to normal
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Schedules:

[ul][li] OfficeFanUpdateInterval Self ReTrigger None Interval 05:00 [/li]
[li] OfficeMultipleOccupancyWithin10M Self ReTrigger None Interval 10:00 [/li][/ul]

Properties:

[ul][li] SecondFloorCoolSetPoint Second Floor Thermostat CurrentSetpoint 78 [/li]
[li] SecondFloorHeatSetPoint Second Floor Thermostat CurrentSetpoint 72[/li]
[li] SecondFloorMode Second Floor Thermostat ModeStatus CoolOn[/li]
[li] SecondFloorTemp Second Floor Thermostat CurrentTemperature 78[/li][/ul]

Conditions:

[ul][li] MultipleOfficeOccupancy Yes OfficeOccupancy and (OfficeOccupancy @ 3 < 10:00)
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[li] OfficeFanManualOperation No (!OfficeFanOn and NOT(OfficeNeedsFanOff;!OfficeFanOn<30)) or (OfficeFanOn and NOT (OfficeNeedsFanOn; OfficeFanOn<30))
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[li] OfficeNeedsFanOn No !OfficeFanOn and SecondFloorNormalMode and MultipleOfficeOccupancy and ((!OfficeFanOn; SecondFloorNormalMode) or !OfficeFanManualOperation) and ((SecondFloorTemp-SecondFloorCoolSetPoint)>-4) and NOT OfficeFanUpdateInterval
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[li] OfficeNeedsFanOff No OfficeFanOn and (!SecondFloorNormalMode or (!OfficeFanManualOperation and (NOT OfficeMultipleOccupancyWithin10M or ((SecondFloorTemp-SecondFloorCoolSetPoint) <=-4)))) and NOT OfficeFanUpdateInterval
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Actions:

Actions for Condition: MultipleOfficeOccupancy
Device Actions:
Immediate
Device Action Arguments
Climate PLEG StartTimer timerName=OfficeMultipleOccupancyWithin10M intervalTime=

Actions for Condition: OfficeNeedsFanOff
Device Actions:
Immediate
Device Action Arguments
Office Fan SetLoadLevelTarget newLoadlevelTarget=0
Climate PLEG StartTimer timerName=OfficeFanUpdateInterval intervalTime=

Actions for Condition: OfficeNeedsFanOn
Device Actions:
Immediate
Device Action Arguments
Office Fan SetLoadLevelTarget newLoadlevelTarget=50
Climate PLEG StartTimer timerName=OfficeFanUpdateInterval intervalTime=