I have never run into any resource issues with any of my Apps, but the way I considered it was if I could space actions and processing out, why not? I have 5 vents, I have heard some users have 10+ vent zones. I figured if I gave 1 sec between zones, no one would really notice the small delays and it was nicer to the Radios and processor.
I have read thru the whole thread and I am still a little confused on best way to proceed. I had all setup best, but still trying to understand the logic/process.
My real thermostat is an Ecobee and I have a total of 4 vents. I have 3 "zones" that I am trying to balance and schedule.
- Main living area (3 keen vents + 1 ecobee remote sensor)
- Master bedroom (1 keen vent + 1 ecobee remote sensor)
- Office (0 keen vent + 1 ecobee remote sensor)
My first goal is to try to focus the cool air more into my office during the day. I assume that the overall strategy is to close up the keen vents more in the other 2 zones so that the air gets more directed to the other rooms with "dumb" vents.
To achieve that goal, I set up 1 virtual thermostat (VT) for the main living area and 1 VT for the bedroom. Then using the VTs settings, I should be able to set desired temperature (For example 78 cooling setpoint) for those 2 zones. Correct?
For office, I would like to get it around 75. How do I do that? Do I set the real Ecobee thermostat to 75 and assume that the 2 VT will adjust the vents? If so, my question is how do I use the office Ecobee sensor for that particular task? Do I create another VT instead of the main thermostat and then use that main VT in my rules?
can the ecobee sensor be seen by Hubitat?
The way I use KL is this:
I have 5 zones, each with a vent, virtual thermostat(vt), and a temp sensor.
Vent cannot raise or lower the temperature, they can limit how much cooling or heating a zone can get.
So, you need to set the main thermostat to a level that will get your slowest zone(the one that takes the longest to heat or cool) to hit the temperature you are trying to achieve.
Yes, hubitat sees the remote sensors
Thanks, that is my understanding that I should set the Ecobee thermostat to the lowest cooling I desire, but where I am still unsure how to do it is, how do I set to temperature by using only that remote sensor reading. I know that I can create a comfort setting in Ecobee itself, but I was hping that via hubitat I could somehow set the Ecobee thermostat to 75 reading from remote and not from main thermostat.
Hubitat cannot do that natively. There are some people who have a semi complex rule machine setup to trick their thermostat into cooling based on remote sensors.
I also use hubigraphs to see what my rooms see throughout the day and make changes to setpoints based on that.
Boy do I have problems with Hubitat. I’ve been using it for about a year after switching from Wink. I get jobs that go pending..... forever without getting a notice.
Your excellent Keenetic Light was doing a good job of controlling my vents then I see last month it got its last update from Ecobee. Job pending.
Can you suggest any action that may help. Why does this happen?
Does Hubitat see any actions from the ecobee? KL can only see what Hubitat sees.
Check the events page for the ecobee.
Yes, but it shows error messages telling me to refresh tokens,
32020-06-07 05:18:30.835 pm infoYou now have 1 thermostats, 7 sensors and 0 switches
app:32020-06-07 05:17:49.446 pm errorException getEcobeeDevices: 500, e:groovyx.net.http.HttpResponseException: Internal Server Error, data:[status:[code:14, message:Authentication token has expired. Refresh your tokens. ]]
built in ecobee app or the community version? It looks like you no longer can get status.
This is the Ecobee Hubitat built in app.
I don't want to blow you off, but I don't have an ecobee... If you aren't seeing any data from it, you should start there.
That was a great suggestion, thanks. What parameter/variable could I use from main thermostat that would allow me to see running time in a timeline?
Thermostat operating state.
Finally switched all my vents over today from the Keen app and hub to your driver and Hubitat. Pretty smooth setup with no issues, not that I’m playing with them in Hubitat I noticed that off will close the vent but on will not open them. I have to set their level to 100% to reopen them. Also sometimes when I set them to 100% and hit refresh they’ll be at 98%.
Any way to make on/off work as expected?
huh, just tested 2 of mine and off closed them, and on opened it to the previous level setting +- 5. They will never read what you set them to, their positioning accuracy is just not that good.
I went through all 5 of mine and they’re all behaving the same way. Off closes, on changes then state on the device page but the vent doesn’t react, setting level to 100 will open them. Then If I hit off, they close, then on, nothing.
