That might be someone else since I have only reached out here and not via email.
I already authorized and relinked all devices to google home but the flair vents don't show up in Google home. Everything else does that I add.
Hi, there is no difference between the capabilities in SmartThings vs Hubitat. So, I don't have any explanations for this behavior.
Regards
Trying to add/authorize just a single vent from hubitat to Google Home I get a "Something went wrong. Try Again." message.. attached screenshots.
Only thing I could add was the hvac (in room ac) from hubitat that uses the flair integration.
Hi, this is beyond the scope of my code. I cannot help you on this (and I don't have Google Home at home). There may be an issue with your Google Home account.
Regards.
Yeah it doesn't recognize the vent device type being sent from hubitat. I'll try to work around it using a virtual switch.
I have a three-level house. Large areas of the house were experiencing up to 10 degrees difference in temperature. I looked into zoning solutions and eventually decided on the promise of flair vents + Hubitat (with maisonsecomatiq.com software).
After spending 1 hour with Yves from maisonsecomatiq.com I have been extremely impressed with how well the solution works. My house is now finally comfortable everywhere. Different zones say with 1-2 degrees F using the system. And each zone is functioning as you would expect. Very impressed with how Yves' solution pulls it all together. And simply works well. Moreover, Yves' software is quiet flexible for different use cases and system configurations.
A little bit about my setup to give you an idea:
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The ground floor and basement combined have 15 rooms split into 7 zones. There is 1 nest thermostat that controls a forced-air heating & cool system with 19 vents among the rooms, 2 flair puck in 2 rooms.
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The 2nd floor has a separate AC (connected to a thermostat) that runs to all 7 rooms and 7 zones. 6 of the rooms have electric radiant heating systems, each connected to a separate nest thermostat. The 2nd floor has 1 flair vent in a room.
A flair puck on each floor was sufficient to give me connectivity. To give you an idea each floor is spread over 1700-2000 sq ft.
For temperature sensing I have combined the multiple temperature sensors in each room by averaging what they are sensing for each room -- to get a more comfortable room temp. For this I use the "Averaging Plus" solution. All rooms have at least one Philips hue motion sensor. Some have a nest thermostat and nest temperature sensor as well. Combining all through Averaging Plus is perhaps overkill but ensures the locations of temperature sensing devices becomes less of an issue that I need to tweak for.
I choose to run the flair vents and nest temperature & thermostat integration on one habitat hub. And the scheduler integration on another hub. This created an extremely responsive solution. I could have probably gotten away with a single hub solution.
Thank you Yves! I feel great about my investment in Nest, flair vents, Hiubitat & Averaging Plus! The system while complex, simply works well. And I have not had any robustness issues. Moreover, I can tell through my sense energy monitor my energy consumption is more efficient. I do not have metrics to share since I have brought in multiple smart home improvements over time and did not track precise outcomes. But in relative terms, I can tell the system is working well, creating a comfortable home, while saving energy.
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For those of you using Flair, can you speak to their durability? Specifically, on the floor? I have a number of floor vents on my first floor, and was wondering if they are strong enough to be stepped on? Not continuously, but on the off chance?
In a similar vein, can the white exterior of the vents be replaced with ones that match my decor (like can I use my existing vent covers and use the Flair "guts"?
I'm also confused with Hubitat, Ecobee and Flair, do I NEED flair pucks?
If anyone as Flair users can help answer these questions, I'd appreciate it. It would help my purchase decision a lot.
To be clear, there is no built-in Hubitat integration for Flair. The only integration I am aware of is @yracine66's, which is a cloud integration.
And in all circumstances, you will need at least one Flair puck to control Flair vents, because the vents do not use zigbee or z-wave as their wireless protocol.
Thanks. So it sounds like it's similar to my Ecobee thermostat or Kasa plug integration.
Ecobee is cloud. Kasa is local - thanks to @djgutheinz. Ecobee can also be local if you integrate it with Home Assistant using the HomeKit controller component and then integrate HA with Hubitat.
New Release
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The new version of MyHvacUnit (v2.3) corrects the supportedThermostatModes and supportedThermostatFanModes attributes in order for them to be compatible with Hubitat's dashboards.
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All you need to do is to copy &paste the new code over the existing device's code under the IDE and save.
- All Hubitat thermostat capabilities are exposed for easier integration with Rule Engines (Rule Machine, WebCore or others)
You can download the code at my store: www.ecomatiqhomes.com/hubitatstore
Regards,
I am having an odd issue with the Flair Vents and logging the vent level to InfluxDB. Looking in the Event on the Flair vent when the vent level is 0 there is a % under unit. All other levels don't have the % and looking at my Keen vents which log fine they don't have the % either. Since the data points are floating point in influxdb it fails when it's 0 because it looks like the level attribute is being set to a string of " 0" (with a leading space) rather than to "0". Any level besides 0 is fine though.
You can test it by setting the value to anything except 0 and in the Events you will see a single entry:
level 25 DEVICE My Flair Vent Upstairs Office-34ea 2023-03-03 02:48:15.894 PM EST
But if you set it to 0 you get 2 entries:
level 0 % DEVICE My Flair Vent Upstairs Office-34ea 2023-03-03 02:38:25.214 PM EST
level 0 DEVICE My Flair Vent Upstairs Office-34ea 2023-03-03 02:37:24.538 PM EST
@asfd64 Hi, I don't see the double entry in events on my side.
In any case, you can try the new version 1.3.6, hopefully, it will resolve your issue. You just need to copy and paste the new code over the existing one and save.
Regards.
Hi Yves,
I updated the driver and all the events and logging look good now. Thanks for the update!
I purchased and installed the puck code. I'm able to control the puck via the device page. I'm trying to set the Flair puck to either heat or cool mode based on whether the thermostat is heating or cooling (Honeywell T6 z-wave).
I'm trying to do this in Rule Machine. I have my trigger set as Honey thermostat 'cooling'.
Now for the action... I can't find the puck under the actions options. What should I do next to set the puck to cooling mode for the above trigger?
Hi @HomeAlone, I'm afraid that I'm not familiar with RM. I think that it should be accessible via a custom action, but I'm not sure.
Please post your question under a RM thread.
Regards
Please forgive my ignorance as I’m new to HE. How do I use your app to set the puck mode to heat or cool? I have your app fully installed and I can see the puck in my devices with live values. Thanks
Hi again, under the Flair APIs, the puck device is more a sensor than an actuator. If you want to control some window/hvac units, and switch from cool to heat mode, you'd need to contribute to MyHVACUnit bundle at my store.
I can refund you the original contribution.
Regards
I think there is some confusion about cool and heat mode here. I am not trying to control another thermostat. I am simply trying to control the cool/heat/auto option that is on the puck itself - this dictates the logic for the vents opening and closing. See screenshot attached. I am just not understanding which device command controls this option.
I did some googling. I need to control the structure heat cool mode. Where can I find this: ```
"structure-heat-cool-mode": "auto",
The /structures endpoint shows the user's main home ID, in this case, 4351. The structure object shows information such as home name, address, temperature preferences, preferred hysteresis bounds, away mode, set point mode. More importantly, this endpoint provides links to find all of the rooms, Pucks, Vents, thermostats, and minisplits associated with this home.
For third party applications, the most useful items to note are:
* name: the name of the home
* temperature-scale: whether to use Celsius "C" or Fahrenheit "F"
* home: user is home (true) or away (false)
* structure-heat-cool-mode: whether home is set to "heat" only, "cool" only, or "auto" for heat and cool
* mode: "auto" means vents and minisplits are automatically controlled, "manual" means they are manually controlled by user or API
