Virtual Thermostat not updating (Help Please)

joe11 · February 23, 2021, 9:27pm

Hi everyone,
I have just setup HE for the first time a week ago. It's been a huge learning curve, but enjoyable.

I have setup a Virtual Thermostat, so that I can use it in Google Home. I have a number of motion sensors that also have temperature sensors and have set up the following in Rule Machine:

However, on my dashboard the Virtual Thermostat does not display the result correctly:

I'm sure I'm missing something simple. If anyone could point out my error, it would be greatly appreciated.

Many thanks,
Joe

napalmcsr · February 24, 2021, 1:31pm

Did you try turning on the logs for your rule and virtual thermostat? I do this and the only thing I can think of is that there is a type conversion issue.

joe11 · February 24, 2021, 9:10pm

Thanks for the suggestion.
I turned logging on for all four options, unfortunately it didn't fix the issue.
I also tried the rule with a different temperature sensor, but it also had the same result.

napalmcsr · February 24, 2021, 9:25pm

Did any errors show in the logs, what you attached looks like events.

joe11 · February 24, 2021, 10:02pm

No errors, just results as in the screen shot above.

napalmcsr · February 24, 2021, 10:20pm

Above you are showing events, to get to logs go here:

Then you can see something like this in past logs:

joe11 · February 24, 2021, 11:10pm

OK, I did not know about that, thank you!
You're right there is an error:

joe11 · February 24, 2021, 11:12pm

Additionally I noticed (Not Installed):
Screen Shot 2021-02-25 at 10.11.30 am

Its a Error 500

napalmcsr · February 25, 2021, 1:10am

ok, is the Gentleman sensor using a built in driver? I am thinking there might be a data casting issue

The other thing I have done is set a local rule variable to the value and then use the car to set the thermostat in case of casting issues.

joe11 · February 25, 2021, 2:24am

Firstly, thank you for your assistance here.

The driver for the sensor is not a built in driver. I'm using the Xiaomi Temp Humidity sensor Driver that a user has provided.
I have a Hue sensor I could try.

I'm also trying to set a local variable as you suggested. Any idea why I'm unable to see a variable option from the dropdown menu?

napalmcsr · February 25, 2021, 3:24am

I checked and I think you have to create the variable first:

joe11 · February 26, 2021, 3:55am

Fantastic, your advice on using a variable worked!
I was then able to set the virtual thermostat to the variable.
Thanks again