I am new to all this and I have been slowly learning as well as doing lots of reading on this forum. One thing that I’m still trying to figure out is notifications. I’d like to be able to create a notification/log of when my Trane TZEMT400BB3NX Thermostat turns on my heater and back off. I looked in the available options and I didn’t see any way to do that. There are lots of other options but no way to track how long it was running. Eventually I’d like to be able to view that data in some sort of spreadsheet so I could graph how long my heater runs for a given day. So, two questions:
Does anyone know of a way to track how long my heater was running? Ie, notify me when turning on and off.
Is there any native way to export vera 3 logs to some sort of spreadsheet? If not, is there a good add in? I am finding it very difficult to find this answer searching the forum. Maybe because the term notification is used so often…?
DataMine looks like it may be just what I need to keep the logs. I haven’t been able to get it to work yet. I plugged in the USB drive into the top slot of my vera 3 and put in “/dev/sdb1” in the mount location but it’s still listing 0 channels. Another newbie question. When it says restart lua in the instructions, does that mean I have to pull the plug on the vera or just press the reload button at the top right of the control panel?
I do not use datamine … I do not have enough memory (in other words I have to many devices and plugins!)
Yes a reload is all that is needed to restart the Vera Software.
Restarting the Hardware (power reset) is only needed if you have some network errors and/or the time of your vera is not correct.
Another way is to feed the thermostat changes to something else. I build a website that accepts http posts/events from Vera and logs in into a database for display (current or history). This way there is no memory requirements on the Vera except for the PLEG plugin.
I use the PLEG plugin to monitor changes to ModeState, (and temperature, temperature set changes, etc.). When it sees the change in a variable on the thermostat plugin, it calls a lua method to send an http post.
Works great except for Idle. For some reason the thermostat delays reporting Idle state. Drives me nuts because I get immediate reporting on everything else. It also does not report 2nd state or aux heat functions (no variables are changed in the thermostat plugin.
As I write this I wonder if I need to look at the thermostat plugin?
Thanks! I’ll keep that in mind if I ever run out of memory. I was finally able to get DataMine to work a couple of days ago and it seems to be just what I need. I was even able to get it to log the length of time it runs. Once again, thanks. This forum is great!
[quote=“shicks3, post:6, topic:178120”]Another way is to feed the thermostat changes to something else. I build a website that accepts http posts/events from Vera and logs in into a database for display (current or history). This way there is no memory requirements on the Vera except for the PLEG plugin.
I use the PLEG plugin to monitor changes to ModeState, (and temperature, temperature set changes, etc.). When it sees the change in a variable on the thermostat plugin, it calls a lua method to send an http post.
Works great except for Idle. For some reason the thermostat delays reporting Idle state. Drives me nuts because I get immediate reporting on everything else. It also does not report 2nd state or aux heat functions (no variables are changed in the thermostat plugin.
As I write this I wonder if I need to look at the thermostat plugin?[/quote]
Would you mind posting your code that posts to your web site? Thanks
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