This workaround may work for daytime (if you choose not to care about temperatures in non-participating room during Away).
But it does not work during Sleep setting.[/quote]
Same goes with sleep. Do not add that sensor to the sleep comfort setting.[/quote]
Then it defeats the purpose.
I do want bedrooms averaging during Sleep when they are used.
If I can’t control sensor’s participation from Vera, I guess I can make a workaround using Fan control.
I can make a virtual ‘Guest Bedroom Occupied’ switch and when it’s On, run a tstat Fan until delta-t between bedrooms are equalized.
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I’m confused, I thought this was for your guest room. If so do not add guest room to sleep setting. But when you have a guest. Add it temporarily to the sleep setting. I agree your case is a bit different than my basement as that does not matter at sleep, but all you need to do is add the guest sensor to the sleep setting when someone is there.
charettepa, I’m trying to avoid manual settings on t-stat in case I forget or I’m away.
I can program to detect an occupancy through motion/alarm settings.
My original question was if it is possible to change sensor’s participation programmatically via Vera.
But thanks to this discussion, I’m leaning towards using Fan to equalize temperatures via PLEG.
It can solve participation issue and I wanted to implement fan temperature equalization anyway as it is way better than averaging (especially in my house where temperature difference can be as high as 5F).
I was very surprised that a fan temperature equalization function is not in Ecobee3; it should be no-brainer for Ecobee to have it as a standard feature.
[quote=“theal”]charettepa, I’m trying to avoid manual settings on t-stat in case I forget or I’m away.
I can program to detect an occupancy through motion/alarm settings.
My original question was if it is possible to change sensor’s participation programmatically via Vera.
But thanks to this discussion, I’m leaning towards using Fan to equalize temperatures via PLEG.
It can solve participation issue and I wanted to implement fan temperature equalization anyway as it is way better than averaging (especially in my house where temperature difference can be as high as 5F).
I was very surprised that a fan temperature equalization function is not in Ecobee3; it should be no-brainer for Ecobee to have it as a standard feature.[/quote]
From a fully automated perspective that’s not possible yet. It would be nice if there were an option in ecobee settings to cooperator ignore a sensor if it has no occupancy. Ex. Name for option exclude this sensor when all unoccupied.
Is it possible to control 2 ecobee thermostats from the same ISY? using relay server - I have ordered a 2nd for my house down stairs but not installed it yet. I assume the ecobee app can handle this, but can EcoLink / relay server ?
Any possibility of being able to modify the fan run time per hour from this plugin? I have a condition that set the setpoint high if a door or window is open longer than a period of time and it works just fine, but the fan still cycles. When everything is closed again, it resumes the current program. It does it when the mode is actually set to off as well so it may just be something I have to live with…
Well, finally got my Ecobee3 and three sensors. Hopefully I’ll get it installed soon.
Looks like the best idea is to remove my Honeywell from Vera and disconnect it, wire in the Ecobee and fully set it up before even thinking about installing the Vera plugin. Then go for the plugin and see what happens.
From this thread, it looks like Watou isn’t really able to work on this anymore since he hasn’t posted in a couple months.
[quote=“PromptCritical, post:626, topic:174457”]Well, finally got my Ecobee3 and three sensors. Hopefully I’ll get it installed soon.
Looks like the best idea is to remove my Honeywell from Vera and disconnect it, wire in the Ecobee and fully set it up before even thinking about installing the Vera plugin. Then go for the plugin and see what happens.[/quote]
Very sound. First get the hardware and native apps all working, and then move on to the plugin.
It’s true I have very little time to devote to it these days. I’ve moved over to openHAB on a Raspberry Pi for my own purposes. But I try not to leave anyone stranded with the Vera plugin.
[quote=“watou, post:627, topic:174457”][quote=“PromptCritical, post:626, topic:174457”]Well, finally got my Ecobee3 and three sensors. Hopefully I’ll get it installed soon.
Looks like the best idea is to remove my Honeywell from Vera and disconnect it, wire in the Ecobee and fully set it up before even thinking about installing the Vera plugin. Then go for the plugin and see what happens.[/quote]
Very sound. First get the hardware and native apps all working, and then move on to the plugin.
It’s true I have very little time to devote to it these days. I’ve moved over to openHAB on a Raspberry Pi for my own purposes. But I try not to leave anyone stranded with the Vera plugin.
watou[/quote]
Good to know. I’m glad we have developers like you doing this stuff and staying around to help others. Sometimes it seems the support from you guys is better than what we’ve come to expect from people who actually get paid to do it.
I am trying to use ecobee’s “SmartAway” function as a trigger to switch my house mode to “Away”.
I think this would be a great solution for presence detection in my house. Geofencing, device IP detection or keyfob presence sensors won’t work for me because I have young kids and sometimes the babysitter or someone else would be home with them and I don’t want the house to switch into away just because my wife and I are not home.
I know I can use “Away” mode as a trigger, but it appears to only work when the ecobee is manually switched into away mode.
Do you have extra sensors spread around the house or just the thermostat and the one sensor? If you have multiple sensors, use them as the triggers instead of the actual thermostat mode. The more sensors you have, the better this will work. I monitor doors opening as well so that if all the sensors go quiet but no doors have been opened in the last 30 minutes, it doesn’t switch modes. Google “wasp in a box” for a better understanding of the concept.
I do have multiple sensors 4 for the ecobee and 2 other go control motion detectors, but I was hoping for simplicity without cooking up a complicated PLEG setup. I’m imagining SmartAway has to be a readable state.
I understand. I don’t know if it’s a readable state but urn:ecobee-com:serviceId:Ecobee1 references the variable currentEventType that may be of help. I looked for a reliable method for a while before I went the route that I went. Simple is good, but you may find that you’ll still wind up a lot of false away statuses. I did…
Love this plugin, @watou! I replaced my CT100 with an ecobee and this plugin is the bee’s knees. I’m able to pull all kinds of goodness out of the plugin devices for some graphs I have setup.
Quick question: is there a way to pull the humidity setpoint? I didn’t see it listed as a variable so it may not be exposed, but just wanted to ask.
Unfortunately I never implemented a full humidistat function in the plugin. The Humidistat device documented here Vera Plugin for Ecobee Thermostats only implements the humidity sensor service. There doesn’t seem to be (last I looked) a UPnP or Vera service definition for humidistats and I didn’t need the feature myself. No idea how UI7 would choose to display a humidity setpoint; might not work…
If you can improve the humidistat device to include setpoint control, such that it doesn’t negatively impact existing users, I would gladly accept a pull request here:
I have added my Ecobee thermostats to my Vera Plus using the Ecobee plugin. I am in Europe and so my Vera setting are set to Celsius. However the thermostat temperatures showing on my Vera are in Fahrenheit…Not just that, but they are not converted to their equivalent.
So if the actual temp is 15 degrees C, it is showing up as 59 degrees C ( should be 59 degrees F to be correct)
I have contacted Vera support and they have told me that the Ecobee plugin ignores the weather and location settings in Vera.
Is there any way to get the Vera to use Celsius settings for my Ecobee?
[quote=“Freddy99, post:637, topic:174457”]I have contacted Vera support and they have told me that the Ecobee plugin ignores the weather and location settings in Vera.
Is there any way to get the Vera to use Celsius settings for my Ecobee?[/quote]
So Vera support apparently did not share that they either broke this capability in a firmware update, or they simply gave you incorrect information.
In your web browser on the same local network as your Vera, do you receive a “temperature” value in the reply to this URL?
http://:3480/data_request?id=lu_sdata
There at least used to be a setting under Location in the web UI to choose the temperature scale to C, and in the data returned from the above URL, you would see “temperature”: “C”.