Agreed
https://github.com/sinopetechnologies/smartThings/blob/master/driver_device_thermostat.groovy
The code is available on this page, just need to take it and create the same thing for a plugin in Vera. Shouldnt be that hard.
[quote=“peterluc8080, post:182, topic:179652”]https://github.com/sinopetechnologies/smartThings/blob/master/driver_device_thermostat.groovy
The code is available on this page, just need to take it and create the same thing for a plugin in Vera. Shouldnt be that hard.[/quote]
Dear Valerie… Communication and Marketing Advisor for Sinope Technologies… can you please reply to this…?
Actually the API for smart thing, control4 and Rti are all on the sinope website, I have zero experience developing a plugin. Is it just reassigning values to one of the other plugins on the Vera system? Any guidance would be greatly appreciated.
Email from our friends at Sinope…
Our API is available and the compatibility with Vera will be coming in the next months.
I have added your email to our list of clients who wish to be informed when our products are compatible with Vera.
If you need more information, do not hesitate to contact me.
Thank you for your patience and have a good day,
Vanessa P?pin
Commis service ? la client?le / Customer Service agent
WOW
I am sorry for the longer response time.
After conducting our research, it has been decided that the project of compatibility with Vera was going to be on hold.
For future updates, I invite you to keep an eye on our Facebook page.
If you need more information, do not hesitate to contact me.
Thank you and have a good day
T: 450.741.7700
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OK, I have zero knowledge of plug-ins and etc. However anyone that has the knowledge and would like to accept the challenge.
If you know a forum member that has the ability to write the plugin, you can tell him/her to contact us. We will verify his/her credentials and if they qualify, we could send them the API so they write the said plugin.
If you need more information, do not hesitate to contact me.
Thank you and have a good day,
Vanessa P?pin
Agente de support technique / Technical support agent
vanessa.pepin@sinopetech.com
T: 450.741.7700 poste 5107
F: 450.741.7710
Sinop? Technologies Inc.
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Are you telling us that there are going to put a hold on the API after promising for two years that they were going to produce it… Sinope have done an API for Control 4, RTI and Smarthing… Can somebody from Vera or Sinope tell us why it is so hard to get the Sinope thermostats working with Vera platform. Is there a real intention from Sinope to get it working with Vera?
I already bought 12 of their thermostats in the perspective they were going to produce an API for Vera… and after many promises… we still at the same place. Please Sinope don’t write to us anymore… " if we have any question… we just need to contact you…"
I have done it many times already and we still nowhere about of having an API… PLEASE REPORT HERE
Sorry friend, that was the official word from sinope, the project is on hold. I agree with you as I have ove 20 figured it would not take this long.
However, the major change with sinope was they will agree to release the API to a programmer on the forum if they want to write a plugin. I will agree to pay for a download if it comes to that.
[quote=“Newzwaver, post:189, topic:179652”]Sorry friend, that was the official word from sinope, the project is on hold. I agree with you as I have ove 20 figured it would not take this long.
However, the major change with sinope was they will agree to release the API to a programmer on the forum if they want to write a plugin. I will agree to pay for a download if it comes to that.[/quote]
You just look on the previous posts how many times they promise an API in a short time… I can not believe they can not support us anymore… I would say to anyone on this platform not to buy Sinope anymore until they can support an API here as well as they did with the other platform… [url=http://www.sinopetech.com/en/support/#api]Home - Sinope Support
Being new to the scene here, I am just catching myself up on what is possible for my installation…
My options are:
- Caleo which is controlled over wifi, but can be used with Vera
- Stelpro, which is controlled over z wave, but can be used with Vera if set up as a generic zwave device
- Use an Aube RC840T-240 Heating Relay with Built-in 24 V Transformer and connect to a Nest
Have I missed anything? Sinoptech seems to have been a flop.
Thanks EM, but we already have the sinope tech units and need someone to write an API
Looks like the Sinope suff is working with smart things.
Yes, it is working with smart thing and has Ben for a year. They have promised the API to any user that can program a plugin. My programming days are long done.
I ASK ANYONE THAT HAS DEVELOPED A PLUGIN IN THE PAST TO LOOK AT THIS I AND MANY MORE WOULD BE HAPPY TO PURCHASE THE PLUGIN.
Winter is coming. Any updates? Is the API published or do we have to request it from them?
I’m curious how temperature limits are handled, if at all. I’m very interested in programmable thermostats where I could modify the setting based on outside temperature, time of year etc. However I am very uncomfortable allowing Vera (or any other controller) full authority of the temperature setting.
To be comfortable I would need hard limits programmed into the thermostat limiting the authority of the remote command. This could be accomplished with some sort of front panel programming or perhaps a remote setup enabled/disabled by a jumper etc.
JohnRob
Hello!
I have been monitoring this thread for some time now and I am really excited to share a new product my company has been working on.
Yes, it is a Wi-Fi based thermostat for electric baseboard heaters and it will be compatible with Vera.
I have personally lived with all three existing solutions (Sinope, Casa, and Stelpro) over the last 6-12 months and neither of them “hit it out of the park”.
Mysa (www.getmysa.com) is really going to leapfrog the competition and finally give customers a high voltage smart thermostat that they have been looking for.
We are still about 9 months from being able to ship but I thought I’d post here to let people know that there is another solution in the works and it WILL work with VERA on day one. Not an empty promise.
Please take a look at our website to see more and we will be adding detailed information very soon!
Hi,
i have been waiting for some time for something and when I saw mysa today, it looked very promising. I went ahead and pre-ordered 3. What also convinced me was the rapid response time from Joshua when I asked him about integration with vera, alexa, siri (homekit)…
here is a referral link [url=http://mysa.refr.cc/joselsiles]http://mysa.refr.cc/joselsiles[/url], if you purchase, I get $10 and so do you 
Once i receive them in October 2017, I will update this thread with my findings.
Luis
I have bought the Sinope line-thermostat in late 2014 when it first came out in hopes that an API will be delivered as a promise to developers. I work in software and can most likely write a working module for integration with Vera.
I will share my outmost disappointment about the product:
[ol][li]The promised API (a local API not the neviweb cloud api, but a direct calls to the RF gateway will be published for anyone interested). Obviously that is a lie to get people on board to buy their product.[/li]
[li]The thermostats were sold as having “Standby/Manual/Auto” operation modes. Clearly labelled on the box and instruction manual. But 4 of early units I got does not have the Standby mode. I want the Standby mode to be set on in the summer months. After contacting supports, this can only be done by sending the units back and have the units reflashed with latest firmware. Also, support insisted that I have the bear all the shipping cost because of their f-up’s with not providing the standby mode to begin with. Even if they paid for shipping, it is a hassle detaching all the units from the wall and send it back for reflashing. It’s a cloud product, why can’t you upgrade through the cloud?[/li]
[li]The outside temperature setting used to work but has been broken ever since a year ago. but has yet to work since but new firmware is supposed to fix it. Again, these thermostats cannot be updated through the web and hence, i need to send in all 8 of my thermostats for service assuming all the shipping costs and all the inconvenience.[/li]
[li]Developers. Let me tells you why the likes of Apple and Google are successful. It’s because of developers and their platform. Your smart thermostat is a great platform to build on but unfortunately, you have closed it off for anyone to do anything cool with it. I don’t doubt you have smart people working for you but there are great developers out there that will push the limit and build something even your product managers will never ever imagine as use cases. So why why why are you putting yourself in such a bad position for your business. You can be selling a lot of hardware here and make very good money here. It has proven you guys are not a software company. I poked around your gateway web code and neviweb interface web code, and it shows me your software is “meh…” engineering level. [/li][/ol]
Sinope, I hope you are reading this, because you have lost me as a current and future customer (possibly other customers because of your company practices). For those of your considering these Sinope thermostats, beware you will be stuck in a closed platform. If your thermostat won’t work, you can’t service it yourself or upgrade any of the software without costing you shipping both ways. Overall, I am very very disappointed with the development over the past 2 years and will be replacing these with open standard Stelpro Z-wave line-voltage thermostats instead.
Hi
I have the API and started a plugin if you are interested in working on it I would love the help and the plugin.