What's your philosophy on HVAC Scenes?

Other Devices & Integrations Climate Control & Temperature Sensors
#1

I have 5 thermostats with scenes that run every three hours to set the upper and lower setpoints to “my” range. I also have notifications that let me know when someone sets them too high or too low. Then, regardless of what changes anyone makes, the scenes run every three hours and the thermostats return to what I want.

What do you do? Do you have triggers that immediately set the temp back to what you want when someone changes it?

#2
Do you have triggers that immediately set the temp back to what you want when someone changes it?
That wouldn't be very nice. Distinctly Orwellian...

I use PLEG logic to determine what the setpoints should be based on several factors including time-of-day, day-of-week, home/away, vacation-mode, visitors-present, gone-to-bed, getting-up-early, etc. The events cause the calculated setpoints to be sent to the 'stats.

Manual changes are fine. They can exist right up until the next programmed event overrides them. I even use them myself if a fancy a temporary change in temperature.

#3

[quote=“RexBeckett, post:2, topic:180689”]

Do you have triggers that immediately set the temp back to what you want when someone changes it?

That wouldn’t be very nice. Distinctly Orwellian…[/quote]

That’s pretty much sums up my HA at home and my office.

Having cameras all over both places seals the deal :smiley:

#4

You could try the kinder and gentler side of HA …
Code up a PLEG … that nudged a themostat 1 deg at a time back towards the target … say every 25M + 10Min rand delay per interval.
If the delta is large it could start with 2 deg/step.

#5

I will just stick with the 3 hour reset to my settings.