Strange Ui7 Scene behavior

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Hi,

I have three scenes to switch my thermostats to away, home and night-stay modes. Everything was working ok with Ui5 on my Vera3. I have switched my thermostats to VeraEdge with Ui7. Now things go awkward. I have tried using (SetPoint_Cool etc) with advanced editor, but they where not changing anything on the thermostats. So I rewrote my scenes to work simply as follows:

  1. Set thermostats to ‘Heat’ wait 10 seconds,
  2. Set ‘Heat Temperature’. (72 for night-stay) wait 10 seconds,
  3. Set thermostats to ‘Cool’ wait 10 seconds,
  4. Set ‘Cool Temperature’. (77 for night-stay) wait 10 seconds,
  5. Set thermostats to ‘Auto’.

Theoretically, this should set my thermostats to heat-cool range I want them to be. However ( :slight_smile: ), Vera’s firmware may fail to set the thermostat to correct mode. And I end up setting the ‘Heat Temperature’ to 77 instead of 72 etc. This is even worse, if I set away heat temperature to 90 -no I don’t live in Arizona- instead of 60. It is pretty upsetting to return to a home which is trying to reach to 90 in summer.

Simply, I want to be able to set heat and cool set points properly to the values I want them to be. How can I make sure the thermostat is in the correct mode before setting the temp? As I stated before, SetPoint_Cool and SetPoint_Heat are not working properly via advanced(!) editor.

Thanks,

Ercan

P.S. : Below is a reformatted copy-paste from advanced editor for Night-Stay.

Delay: Immediately Add action
#24 Thermostat 01 Service: urn:upnp-org:serviceId:HVAC_UserOperatingMode1 SetModeTarget HeatOn
#30 Thermostat 02 Service: urn:upnp-org:serviceId:HVAC_UserOperatingMode1 SetModeTarget HeatOn
#28 Thermostat 03 Service: urn:upnp-org:serviceId:HVAC_UserOperatingMode1 SetModeTarget HeatOn

Delay: 5s Add action
#24 Thermostat 01 Service: urn:upnp-org:serviceId:HVAC_UserOperatingMode1 SetModeTarget HeatOn
#30 Thermostat 02 Service: urn:upnp-org:serviceId:HVAC_UserOperatingMode1 SetModeTarget HeatOn
#28 Thermostat 03 Service: urn:upnp-org:serviceId:HVAC_UserOperatingMode1 SetModeTarget HeatOn

Delay: 10s Add action
#24 Thermostat 01 Service: urn:upnp-org:serviceId:TemperatureSetpoint1 SetCurrentSetpoint 72
#30 Thermostat 02 Service: urn:upnp-org:serviceId:TemperatureSetpoint1 SetCurrentSetpoint 73
#28 Thermostat 03 Service: urn:upnp-org:serviceId:TemperatureSetpoint1 SetCurrentSetpoint 73

Delay: 20s Add action
#24 Thermostat 01 Service: urn:upnp-org:serviceId:HVAC_UserOperatingMode1 SetModeTarget CoolOn
#30 Thermostat 02 Service: urn:upnp-org:serviceId:HVAC_UserOperatingMode1 SetModeTarget CoolOn
#28 Thermostat 03 Service: urn:upnp-org:serviceId:HVAC_UserOperatingMode1 SetModeTarget CoolOn

Delay: 25s Add action
#24 Thermostat 01 Service: urn:upnp-org:serviceId:HVAC_UserOperatingMode1 SetModeTarget CoolOn
#30 Thermostat 02 Service: urn:upnp-org:serviceId:HVAC_UserOperatingMode1 SetModeTarget CoolOn
#28 Thermostat 03 Service: urn:upnp-org:serviceId:HVAC_UserOperatingMode1 SetModeTarget CoolOn

Delay: 30s Add action
#24 Thermostat 01 Service: urn:upnp-org:serviceId:TemperatureSetpoint1 SetCurrentSetpoint 77
#30 Thermostat 02 Service: urn:upnp-org:serviceId:TemperatureSetpoint1 SetCurrentSetpoint 76
#28 Thermostat 03 Service: urn:upnp-org:serviceId:TemperatureSetpoint1 SetCurrentSetpoint 76

Delay: 35s Add action
#24 Thermostat 01 Service: urn:upnp-org:serviceId:HVAC_FanOperatingMode1 SetMode Auto
#30 Thermostat 02 Service: urn:upnp-org:serviceId:HVAC_FanOperatingMode1 SetMode Auto
#28 Thermostat 03 Service: urn:upnp-org:serviceId:HVAC_FanOperatingMode1 SetMode Auto

Delay: 40s Add action
#24 Thermostat 01 Service: urn:upnp-org:serviceId:HVAC_UserOperatingMode1 SetModeTarget AutoChangeOver
#30 Thermostat 02 Service: urn:upnp-org:serviceId:HVAC_UserOperatingMode1 SetModeTarget AutoChangeOver
#28 Thermostat 03 Service: urn:upnp-org:serviceId:HVAC_UserOperatingMode1 SetModeTarget AutoChangeOver

Delay: 50s Add action
#24 Thermostat 01 Service: urn:upnp-org:serviceId:HVAC_UserOperatingMode1 SetModeTarget AutoChangeOver
#30 Thermostat 02 Service: urn:upnp-org:serviceId:HVAC_UserOperatingMode1 SetModeTarget AutoChangeOver
#28 Thermostat 03 Service: urn:upnp-org:serviceId:HVAC_UserOperatingMode1 SetModeTarget AutoChangeOver

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Did you ever make any progress on this? I have a trane controller and had issues when I went to UI7 that looked similar. What seems a bit strange is that there are actually 3 setpoints, a cool, heat and a ‘generic’ set point. I dont recall if this was the case on UI5 but it seems the trane is treating them all the same.

Its sort of strange because you’d expect the behavoir of the trane to be the same, but there is some translation step that is happening now at the Vera.