Trane thermostat usage graph

Other Devices & Integrations Climate Control & Temperature Sensors
1

I noticed on my trane thermostat there is a usage graph that will show how many hours the AC ran for a given day. Is there any way to get the same data to appear in Vera? I’d love to be able to map the usage over time.

2

Wow. I have 3 of these thermostats, and didn’t know they did that! Guess I should actually read the manual once in a while!

You’re right, that would be a really nice thing to have Vera extract.

3

I noticed this when I installed mine two weeks ago. I wonder if there is any api documentation on the Trane thermostat? I guess it all depends on how much they put into the zwave portion of the thermostat to get/set functionality.

  • Garrett
4

You can get that from the Trane through Z-Wave, it’s stored in a configuration variable. MCV would have to add the ability I believe.

5

Did the search for accessing the Trane usage graph but came to a dead end. Does anyone know how to access via MCV or Luup??? Running UI3 (waiting on stable UI4)

Thanks in advance for the help.

6

Ive been looking for T-Stat info maybe you guys can help. Do you know if the Tranes can use a secondary temp sensor like the HSM100 to average the temps either in the unit itself or through vera in some way. or can you at least use a second sensor to trigger the on/off/auto cycle??

7

No secondary temp terminals on Trane/Schlage thermostat. But RCS (www.resconsys.com) the manufacturer of this thermostat has one TZ43 with almost all the wistles including additional sensor.

8

Gentle bump:-)

Did the search for accessing the Trane usage graph but came to a dead end. Does anyone know how to access via MCV or Luup??? Running UI3 (waiting on stable UI4)

Thanks in advance for the help.

9

I think ASIHome is right, if you can access it via zwave… MCV would have to add that ability. I have the RCS TZ43 and there is no way that I know of (currently) to access the usage graph other than viewing it on the tstat LCD itself.

10

thanks for the input.

11

I thought I would bump this thread again. I have a Trane thermostat at my second home and have been using a lua script to pull off temperature and operating mode and state (heating or idle) at 30 minute intervals. The thermostat does a good job holding the room temperature to +/-1 degF. I have seen, from the data collected this season so far, that at times when the temperature drops to 1 degree below the set point, the state is usually “heating” and otherwise it is “idle”. I can tell that the frequency of “heating” records goes up as the outside temperature goes down. This has been a great setup to observe the temperatures at the thermostat and at a few other sensor locations around the house but the 30 minute sampling interval doesn’t really help me figure out how much fuel I am really using.

I really would like to get the usage graph data from the thermostat. Has anyone figured a way to do this?

Thanks,
Rich

12

DataMine is a plug in which will allow you to log and view lots of parameters.

You can only view the data on the local network to Vera and not over the internet though so I am not sure if it will do what you want it to.

Nick

13

Thanks for the response Nick. I haven’t used a plug-in before so that would be new for me. Are you able to accumulate the data for a few weeks at a time (maybe a month) and pull it off when you are local? Do you know what format the data is stored in?

I guess if I knew what parameters to look for I might be able to figure out how to write it to a file.

Thanks,
Rich