I have a Trane TZEMT400BB3NX thermostat and it’s configured and working great in vera on UI5. I would like to turn on a outdoor lighting module (GE 45604) when the system is on and heating the home and then turn off the outdoor lighting module when the heat has reached the desired temperature and the thermostat turns the system off. The reason for this is that I will have a transformer plugged into the lighting module that when powered on it will start a “whole-home” humidifier system. Thanks in advance
I am pretty sure you can do this with the Program Logic Event Generator plugin.
There are no events when the Thermostat actually turns on.
But it does change the Device variable: Mode State. I believe the values are:
[ul][li]Idle[/li]
[li]Heating[/li]
[li]???Airconditioning[/li][/ul]
You can bind this Device Property as an input variable with name ModeState and then have a condition:
HumidifierOn = ModeState ne ‘Idle’
HumidifierOff = ModeState eq ‘Idle’
Or you can test for just ‘Heating’
Then add the appropriate command(s) to an Action associated with HumidifierOn and HumidifierOff respectively.
RichardTSchaefer, thank you for replying. I was trying to get PLEG to make this work for me so I’m really glad you saw this thread.
I’m not sure I’m properly using PLEG, I get this error message: Program Logic : HumidifierOn = ModeState ne ‘Idle’: Invalid Expression Operator: = in:HumidifierOn = ModeState ne ‘Idle’
Attached is a screenshot of Input/Conditions tabs
Set the condition Name to HumidifierOn and the condition value to ModeState ne ‘Idle’
I use the = in my short hand notation.
Actually you need to also rename the input trigger from t1 to ModeState
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