I recently installed Z-Wave MicasaVerde Vera Lite, Secure Wall Thermostat and Secure Boiler Receiver (2 channel). I’m UK based.
I managed to setup some basic scenes using the micasaverde GUI (running version 1.5.622), but quickly found the whole scene thing lacking so moved over to a PLEG based system to get better logic control. I’ve got this working to the extent that my heating and hot water come on when I want them and all seems to be working (for now!), however, I’m sure my conditions etc could do with some improvement!
I’ve got lots of plans to develop my home automation (Danfoss Living connect rad TRVs on way etc), but now I’ve got a bit more into the whole vera thing I had some initial questions:
Can I output a list of my current PLEG triggers, conditions, actions etc so I can paste them up in a post on here to get feedback?
I want to be able to record a regular log of various data points such as ‘CurrentTemperature’ from the thermostat, when there is a call for ‘Heat’ for cental heating and hotwater etc against what the outside weather conditions in my area are (e.g. temp, rain, snow, wind etc). Where do I start?! Is there a logging plugin that will do this or will I need to venture into lua code?
I do not currently have outside thermometer or weather station, so was thinking if it was possible to use a web based weather service that I could pull the data from to match up with log info pulled above. Is this possible?
I want to be able to monitor the temperature of the boiler water out temperature and the hot water cylinder temperature via Vera. Are there any such devices available to purchase/rig up?
I’ve got plenty more questions, but my post is getting quite long already so will stop there!
open up the pleg device and there should be “status” and “report” buttons. One of those will get you what you want. Report will output everything you have set up, status will show the current status of the conditions, etc.
2)Look up DataMine, DataYours (I’m not sure this one is up for people to use yet), and EventWatch (I think that’s what it’s called). One of those should give you what you want
In the US there is a “weather” plugin which uses WeatherUnderground’s weather server. I’m not 100% sure it work for weather in the UK, but you could give it a try. It’s in the app store.
I’m not sure if this is possible. I will let others ring in on this one. Sorry I couldn’t help you with it.
See the Report button for outputting your PLEG’s configuration. Use teh Status button to output current trigger and condition states.
2. I want to be able to record a regular log of various data points such as 'CurrentTemperature' from the thermostat, when there is a call for 'Heat' for cental heating and hotwater etc against what the outside weather conditions in my area are (e.g. temp, rain, snow, wind etc). Where do I start?! Is there a logging plugin that will do this or will I need to venture into lua code?
The [url=http://apps.mios.com/plugin.php?id=1088]dataMine plugin[/url] is most commonly used fro this. However, it does not seem to be still under development, which will likely create a problem if you upgrade to UI6. The user @akbooer is working on a new [url=http://apps.mios.com/plugin.php?id=4726]EventWatcher plugin[/url] of his own that my be beneficial.
3. I do not currently have outside thermometer or weather station, so was thinking if it was possible to use a web based weather service that I could pull the data from to match up with log info pulled above. Is this possible?
4. I want to be able to monitor the temperature of the boiler water out temperature and the hot water cylinder temperature via Vera. Are there any such devices available to purchase/rig up?
Fibaro door/window senors and Universal sensors can be configured with one or more temperature senders and would likely work well for this.
I’ll caution you about combining all of these plugins on a Vera Lite. The Vera Lite is memory constrained and each plugin uses a fair bit of memory. A combination of all of the plugins mentioned so far will almost certainly exhaust the Vera Lite’s available memory.