Thanks I will try that.
I've got a question regarding the weighting assigned to various temp sensors. I'm probably overthinking this, but I would assume that the higher the weighted value assigned would be the higher priority when averaging the temperature across the given sensors, correct? Or is it the other way around, in that a weight setting of 1 assumes top priority over a setting of say 3 or 4? I just set this up over the holidays and my daughter's room closest to the inside unit of my HVAC system is several degrees hotter than the rest of the house. It's like a sauna in there. I've got an Ecobee Enhanced thermostat that I'm controlling with the app and 4 Ecobee sensors spread out in the bedrooms and living room of the house. Currently I've got the sensor in her room weighted at a value of 3 while the other Ecobee sensors are set at a 2 then I've got numerous other Aqara Temp/humidity sensors scattered around the house and they are set at a weight of 1. Do I need to go the opposite direction in my weighting setup?
No. The greater the number, the greater the influence of that sensor. Try this: remove all sensors except for the one for your daughter's room. The thing is, that one room is probably always going to be high irrespective of the sensor weights. You should just play around with variations to see how close you can get to balanced comfort.
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Based on how old most discussions are , I assume the controller is considered a mature app. However, I am still confused about why control offset is applied to weighted temperature sensor reading whereas it would seem that It should have been applied to the physical thermostat temp reading. Isn't the thermostat considered to be just an actuator that you need to nudge? Example: I live in an old California house with crappy thermal insulation where 2nd floor night temperature is routinely 4-5 degrees higher than that of the 1st floor where physical thermostat is. At night , I need at least 3 -4 degrees of offset to make thermostat do anything. During the day time when everybody is downstairs, the same offset is used to control the physical CT101 thermostat but at the time the readings are from the own sensor of the thermostat.i have a two stage system and as a result of this it always runs at high rate defeating all these efficiency improvements. During night time the offset is sometimes not enough to toggle the thermostat. Don't you think that the control offset should be applied to the current reading of the thermostat rather than that of the external sensor?
It is applied to the current setpoint (heating or cooling, of the controller thermostat), not to the sensor average, then that value is set into the controlled thermostat setpoint.
Thermostat Controller was not designed to give much refinement to how the controlled thermostat is controlled, e.g., keeping it in single stage vs. second stage. It could be possible to add some refinement using a companion rule that sets the control offset depending on various factors. How it should best be set depends on the specific controlled thermostat, and how it behaves wrt setpoint changes.
Thank you for answering promptly. This must be an issue with my particular setup then where I see controller tile in blue and the controlled thermostat in gray with inconsistent settings.increasing control offset to something ridiculous like 5 degrees or more used to solve the problem but it is possible that there is some communication issue, though I am pretty sure controlled thermostat could be set through bits own tile manually at the same time
Well I am sorry to say but there must be a bug in the app . It works properly for some time but once scheduler changes what temperature sensor to use, it starts applying control offset to the sensor readout rather than to the physical thermostat temperature. Is the code open source ? Can I take a look at it? I can't
attach my snapshot of the dashboard but controlling thermostat is set to 70 and offset is 1 degree. Physical thermostat is set to 70-1=69 deg which is above its own temperature so it doesn't do anything . When I change controller temperature , physical thermostat follows at 1 deg below and once setting gets below its own temperature, AC kicks in. So it clearly applies offset to the wrong variable.
Add yourself to the Owners group and you should then be able to attach snapshots.
