[RELEASE] Sinope Device Drivers with advanced functionality

samuel.c.auclair · April 6, 2022, 1:11am

Hi everyone,

If you want to benefit of most the of Sinope product capability for which the default driver does not have, this driver is for you. All the drivers are available here in the mergeDrivers directory.

I've made drivers for the following Sinopé device, with the collaboration of several:

TH1123ZB - 3000W thermostat
TH1124ZB - 4000W thermostat
TH1300ZB - Floor heating thermostat
TH1400ZB - Low voltage thermostat
SP2600ZB - Outlet (and most likely SW2500ZB - Switch)
RM3500ZB - Load control
RM3250ZB - Calypso water heater

Those drivers can also be installed with the hubitat package manager (HPM). The name of the package is Zigbee Driver for Sinope device. The difference between the default drivers and those custom drivers are the following:

Thermostats
The Sinope thermostats can show the outside temperature, This temperature can be send to the thermostat via RM with the notification capability. Except for the low voltage thermostat, the energy (in kWh) and the power (in W) are reported. From the energy, an estimation of the cost of heating can be done. The energy and cost value are reported as daily, weekly, monthly and yearly as **lyEnergy and **lyCost. The energy and the cost attribute are also reported for which they approximately represent the energy consumed and the cost of the thermostat since it is heating something.

Moreover, there is a slight delay (0.5s) when sending heating setpoint. Every time a new setpoint is send within those two seconds, the previous one sending is cancel. This make the thermostats tile in the Hubitat dashboard behaving much better.

The screenshot here show how to log the outside temperature to the thermostat using the notification capability. The outdoor temperature needs to come from another device.

Also, for some thermostats, a DR icon can be set to flashing with the "turn on icon DR" command. This can be useful if you have dynamic rating for you electricity and want your thermostats to give you visual notification about that. The PI heating (the power given to your heating devices) can also be limited with the preference "Limit PI Heating". This one is active only after sending the command "turn on icon DR" and no longer active after sending "turn off icon DR".

Other advance configurations can be made. Those advance configurations include adjusting the required change in some attributes before sending new values. This become useful if those reading are use to control other devices or for more precise monitoring or to reduce reporting to reduce load on the Hub or Zigbee traffic. The attribute that can be configure is:

Temperature
Heating demand in % or the power reading in Watts
Energy value in Watts-hour

Outlet and Load control
Similar to the thermostat, they can also report the energy which can be interpreted as cost. Those drivers should also works for any ZigBee outlet, except maybe for the energy meter.

the-leafs · April 6, 2022, 1:31am

Thanks Samuel, your efforts are much appreciated. I use your drivers for my TH1123ZB and they work great.

cheers
B

SoundersDude · May 16, 2022, 3:55pm

+1, using your SP2600ZB for the in-wall outlet I have, and TH1300ZB for my bathroom floor heater.
Your drivers are FANTASTIC. Thank you!

Love seeing the cost calculations!

SoundersDude · July 22, 2022, 4:57pm

Hey @samuel.c.auclair -
Looking at the Thermostat and Outlet driver, it occured to me I might have put in the "Electric Cost per Kwh in cent" wrong.

For example, if I know that it costs me $0.1307 per kWh.
Should that be 13.07 as the value here? I guess I'm asking what the definition of "in cents is" as I think I might be overthinking it.

I continue to love your drivers. Thank you!

samuel.c.auclair · July 22, 2022, 5:10pm

If the electricity cost you 0.1307$/kWh, yes you should put 13.07. I've decided to put the cost in c/kWh, since at least in Quebec the cost of electricity is defined in c/kWh.

SoundersDude · December 8, 2022, 12:20am

A few random questions for these awesome drivers.

Outside Temp

I'm about to set this up as I didn't realize it was possible. Temperature in what value should we set for this? e.g. C or F?

Resting Cost values?
For the Outlets, I'm not sure what happened but my value seem way off. Wondering if there is a way to reset these? My yearly cost definitely is not that much for this device

samuel.c.auclair · December 8, 2022, 12:36am

For your first question, it should be sent in your default temperature unit, the unit set in your Hub details page. If the temperature of your thermostat is in F, it should be sent in F.

Now concerning your very large value for your cost and energy. This situation should not happen with the updated driver. To reset the value to a lower value, I will need to update the driver, I should publish a new version soon.

SoundersDude · December 8, 2022, 4:22pm

Thank you so much. Yeah my outlet is fine using your driver, this one I've just been ignoring the values, but would love to start tracking them again.

Thanks again!

samuel.c.auclair · December 9, 2022, 1:09am

Can you try the following driver?

github.com

sacua/SinopeDriverHubitat/blob/develop/drivers/SP2600ZB_Sinope_Hubitat.groovy

/**
 *  Sinope TH1123ZB, TH1124ZB Device Driver for Hubitat
 *  Source: https://github.com/sacua/SinopeDriverHubitat/blob/main/drivers/RM3250ZB_Sinope_Hubitat.groovy
 *
 *  Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not use this file except
 *  in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at:
 *
 *      http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
 *
 *  Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software distributed under the License is distributed
 *  on an "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. See the License
 *  for the specific language governing permissions and limitations under the License.
 *
 * v1.0.0 Initial commit
 * v1.1.0 Correction for the offset calculation very rarely, the reading is a super large negative value, when that happen, the offset does not change
 * v1.2.0 Enable debug parse and possible to reset the offset value
 */

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You will need to use the following button with to set a new offset value for the energy meter. You could put 0 if you have no idea what to put.

SoundersDude · December 9, 2022, 1:55am

Thank you @samuel.c.auclair
So I replaced the code and that shows up. I put 0 in and it didn't do anything. I tried a refresh, configure, saving the drive again and trying 0 again. But still has the same old values:
See:

I also tried it with the value 1 just in case.
Any thought?

samuel.c.auclair · December 9, 2022, 2:17am

Ok, this is odd that the energy value is still at a very high value. The energyValue that you see in your state variable is the energy value return by the device without performing any calculations. The offset that I've put in the driver is only to ensure that value is always increasing as it should.

So for me what is odd is the very large value return by the outlet. On this side, I can't do anything. However, you can still look at your daily, weekly and monthly values for your energy consumption/ cost.

Eventually the yearly cost will make sense as well once the first of January pass.

samuel.c.auclair · December 9, 2022, 2:37am

You could maybe put a negative offset value like -38580000, this will make Energy value more in the expected range.

SoundersDude · December 9, 2022, 7:42pm

Thank you. I don't mind waiting, and if it doesn't clear I'll let you know and try that work-around with the offset.

Thank you once again!

sim.lacasse · January 23, 2023, 11:58pm

Bonjour @samuel.c.auclair!

I have several Sinope plugs SP2600ZB and it looks like some of them are now reporting a cumulating value for daily energy. Everything was good until January 7th (reported values looke good). However, from this date, the daily energy is still increasing and does not match with values reported by Energy Cost Calculator.

Each day, I put the dailyEnergy value into a virtual device (temperature device, °F shall be read kWh) and history looks like this for one plug :

Do you have this issue?

I also have several Sinope thermostat and I don't have this issue: dailyEnergy is reset to 0 each day,

samuel.c.auclair · January 24, 2023, 12:21am

Bonjour,
Normally if you go on your device page at the bottom, you should see something like this:

The important one for you is the "resettDailyEnerrgy", if not set, click configure.

If already configure, I can't say why it is not working, maybe your hub is rebooting from other rule at midnight. However, there is a work around. If you have updated your driver, you should be able to reset the daily energy value via a RM using the command "resetDailyEnergy" at the time you want.

daryl678 · February 11, 2023, 12:51pm

Samuel
Thanks for the work on the Sinope driver. Working great on my four units in Dorset, ON. CA

Hydro_Philic · April 1, 2023, 1:35am

Newbie starting this week to Hubitat with C8, and it has been a great jouney! Hit a dead end today in tring to pair up 4 Sinope Low Voltage Zigbee TH 1400 ZB thermostats. So far I have been using the Hubitat provided Sinope driver. Do these advanced function device drivers address any pairing related issues with the Sinope thermostats? Thanks

samuel.c.auclair · April 1, 2023, 1:54am

Welcome to the great hubitat community. No this driver will not address any pairing issue.

Can you describe a bit more the problem you are facing?

Hydro_Philic · April 1, 2023, 2:05am

When I initiate pairing and it starts the 60 sec count down, when the two buttons are held down for 10 sec on the thermostat the "CONF" shows and the WiFi icon flashes but after about 1.5 minutes the WiFi Icon disappears on the thermostat, and in the Hubitat add device app the "looks like you are having trouble...." message appears. I have tried doing a factory recet, tried rotating through the different thermostats, tried to bring the thermostats within a few feet of the Hub, tried factory reset and dropping power to and restarting the thermostats, all with no luck in pairing. So that is what brought me here. Wow thanks for the rapid response!

hubitrep · April 1, 2023, 2:08am

I believe you're supposed to only momentarily (but simultaneously) press the up and down buttons to pair.

I think holding them down for 10+ seconds does a factory reset. [EDIT : actually a 10-second hold unpairs the thermostat - sorry]