Until now, I didn't consider integrating my thermostat with HE. It's a Rheem Econet and is alexa enabled only. Today, I'm sitting at my desk thinking, damn I'm cold. Sure enough, the schedule is set for when I'm at work. (President's Day, and I work for local government) A couple of taps to the plus and it was remedied, but it only overrides a schedule for 2 hours. I'm just wondering if anyone here has done anything to integrate the Econet. i'm looking for help as I would have no idea where to begin or if it's even possible and for ideas on doing this. It's a 2 stage furnace, so nest wasn't an option. I'd just like it to turn down when the house is in away and night and warm up when we're home. When we're really home instead of my trying to set it to our work schedule. Much appreciated.
Echo speaks with a routineid command?
Setup an echo routine to do what you need the thermostat to do, then use echo speaks routineid command from rule machine.
This works with their water heater but I believe someone on ST made a driver for their furnace.
This one works for me. I use it for monitoring, but changing temperatures seems to work:
I really like the Rheem system. I dislike the thermostat. It's a 2nd generation device that has all the sensors it needs, but it doesn't have the smarts of a Nest from 2013.
My husband works for a Rheem warehouse. They get the same complaints. There's supposed to be a new stat coming out, but I don't know when.
Thanks for the input. I'll have to look into the driver. I hope it works for me.
Did you ever get the Econet (newest) thermostat for Heat Pump running on HE? I'm only using the Heat Pump and have been searching for drivers to set it up and thought you might know of some that are available.
I hadn't taken much interest in it lately. I think someone else did find a driver for it, if I remember.
Thanks, I will keep looking.
You've got me curious, so i'll look later too
@april.brandt is this the Rheem Econet thermostat you have?
It controls my Rheem Modulating Furnace and AC. I can't seem to get the Hubitat Rheem Thermostat App out there to control it.
@dman2306 is this because it used to be a REST API and now it is MQTT? Has any one modified the app to be able to log in, view the settings, and change them?
This is the one I have. The app sucks and only controls the stat part of the time.
Correct. Someone would need to recode it. I only have access to a Water heater, not a thermostat, so I can’t really test very effectively without having one...
@dman2306
Have you noticed that the new interface is really it and miss? It seems like most of the time I cannot control my water heater, but if I go to the Rheem app I can control it just fine.
Hmm. Not really. I have it set to change the mode several times a day and haven’t had more than 1-2 issues over the last few months. Do you get errors in the logs?
I will have to turn on logging and watch it. But I change setpoints and modes several times a day too and they don't seem to work most of the time.
Hmm. Let me know if you see anything in the logs. I’m happy to look into it. I also did recently build a retry mechanism for another mqtt integration. I should probably add support for that to this
Has anyone heard if the folks at ST recoded the Econet thermostat for the furnace to MQTT.
ST doesn’t support MQTT. So no, they haven’t.
If someone had an old spare one they’d want to ship I’m sure I could get it working. Just don’t want to invest in buying a thermostat I have no use for.
I made some improvements I’m testing to do better retries and reconnects. I hope to have it together this weekend.
