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I don't understand. It's a motion sensor that sends an ON if motion is detected and OFF after a timeout with no motion. If it turns off too soon then you can extend the timeout.

I have done something similar but not with remote sensors. I bought an additional Venstar thermostat for the bedroom. It is powered but not connected to the HVAC. When I go to bed at night I turn off the main thermostat and turn on the one in the bedroom (programmatically of course). I use programming to detect the heat and cool control from the bedroom thermostat to turn on and off the main thermostat to control the heating/cooling in the bedroom. I realize this is an expensive solution but I don't believe the ISY can read the remote sensors. The money I save from just heating the bedroom instead of the whole house will recoup the expense of the extra thermostat fairly quickly.

Of course, today it's working fine.

I upgraded to .16 yesterday. Now when I try to view my log in Excel, Excel generates an exception error. This is on an iMac running Lion with Office 2011. I cleared the log and generated just a couple entries in the log and it still does the same thing. Honestly, this may have been there in a previous version, I don't check the logs that often but it was working previously the last time I checked.

Pretty sure the Lite version only allows the use of 2 devices. You have to buy it to get full functionality. If you have more than 2 devices the thermostat may not be showing up, if the Lite version even allows thermostats.

To set a variable using MobiLinc, create a program that sets the variable like if then Vacation_Mode = 1 else Now you can select the program in MobiLinc and select Run Then.

Andy, Would you mind sharing your programs with me? I would like to compare how your set up is relative to mine. No problem. The first program is what gets executed when I press the button before going to sleep. Sorry I gave up trying to line up the comments. It works great by the way. If Control 'DEVICES / REMOTELINCS / MASTER BEDROOM / RL2 MB (h)' is switched On Or Control 'DEVICES / REMOTELINCS / MASTER BEDROOM / RL2 MB (h)' is switched Off Then Run Program 'GD Close' (If) ; Close the Garage Door Disable Program 'PM08:45' ; Disable the program at runs at 8:45 in case I sleep early Set Scene 'MULTI ROOM / ALL' Off ; Turn everything off Set Scene 'HALLWAY UPSTAIRS / HU TS (OFF)' On ; Turn the main thermostat OFF Wait 5 minutes ; Wait for Heating or Cooling to turn off and compressor lockout to expire $iMBFanAuto = 1 ; Flag to use Master Bedroom Ceiling Fan while heating - Turn it ON $iMBFanAuto Init To $iMBFanAuto $iLRFanAuto = 0 ; Flag to use Living Room Ceiling Fan while heating - Turn it OFF $iLRFanAuto Init To $iLRFanAuto Set Scene 'MASTER BEDROOM / MB TS (80_72)' On ; Turn on the Master Bedroom Thermostat Else - No Actions - (To add one, press 'Action') Then in the morning If Time is 5:00:00AM And On Mon, Tue, Wed, Thu Time is 5:00:00AM Then Set Scene 'MULTI ROOM / Floor Lamps' On ; Turn on some lights Set 'DEVICES / OUTLETS / LR (Christmas Tree)' On ; Xmas Tree - Temporary Enable Program 'PM08:45' ; Re-enable my program that runs at 8:45 Set Scene 'MASTER BEDROOM / MB TS (OFF)' On ; Turn off the Master Bedroom thermostat Wait 5 minutes ; Wait for Heating or Cooling to turn off and Compressor Lockout to expire $iLRFanAuto = 1 ; Set Living Room Fan to run during heating $iLRFanAuto Init To $iLRFanAuto Set Scene 'HALLWAY UPSTAIRS / HU TS (82_74)' On ; Turn ON main thermostat. Else Set 'DEVICES / OUTLETS / LR (Christmas Tree)' On Enable Program 'PM08:45' Set Scene 'MASTER BEDROOM / MB TS (OFF)' On Wait 5 minutes $iLRFanAuto = 1 $iLRFanAuto Init To $iLRFanAuto Set Scene 'HALLWAY UPSTAIRS / HU TS (82_74)' On The other programs that react to Heat or Cool On/Off all look like this If Control 'DEVICES / THERMOSTATS / MB TS (Cool Control)' is switched On And Control 'DEVICES / THERMOSTATS / MB TS (Cool Control)' is not switched Off Then Wait 3 seconds Set Scene 'HALLWAY UPSTAIRS / HU TS (70)' On Else Wait 3 seconds Set Scene 'HALLWAY UPSTAIRS / HU TS (OFF)' On I don't know if it's all RF based devices or just the thermostats but I've found reliability increases substantially if you don't try to talk to the thermostats when other Insteon traffic is going OR try to talk to another Insteon device immediately after talking to the thermostat. In the program above I just received a Cool On/Off from the thermostat so I wait for 3 seconds before reacting to it. The only downside to all of this is when you get up and leave the bedroom, the house is really cold in comparison to the toasty bedroom. This extra thermostat I bought was the Integrated INSTEON 1 day programmable. Apparantly it doesn't have the adjustable backlight feature the 7 day has. It is stuck in Auto, which means the backlight comes on at 6pm and goes off at 6am. It is very bright in a dark room. No worries, I just set the thermostats clock back 12 hours.

One thing to check for is that you are trying to update the correct file. When I use Safari to download the .ZIP it actually extracts the files out of the .ZIP then throws the .ZIP file into the trash. You need to select the .ZIP file to update. I end up dragging it out of the Trash onto the desktop and point to the file on the desktop.

My 2.3 dongle reports humidity just fine without querying. In fact querying sometimes gets back a value of 2 x Cool setpoint which is bad. If you think the humidity is 10% too high then you can calibrate it from the thermostat.

I have today ordered my second Venstar thermostat (they were on sale). I've written some programs already so that when I go to bed the main thermostat is turned off and the one in the bedroom is turned on. When the heat or cool control is received I turn on the main thermostat in heat or cool mode. In the morning when I get up I turn off the thermostat in the bedroom and turn on the main thermostat. There's some additional ceiling fan controls also. I should know if it's going to work tomorrow.

You do realize the Energy Display units are battery powered, right?

My needs seem so humble compared to yours. However, your post prompted me to think out the details of what I want to do and how it could be done. Thanks for that! I also would have preferred to use a $40 Energy display unit rather than $200 Venstar thermostat. Guess I'll have to start saving up.

This is something I have been mulling over for a while now. I used to use the Totalline(?) Wireless thermostat. At night when I went to bed I would take it with me in the bedroom so the heating system would run based on the temperature in the bedroom and not the living room. Once the door is closed the bedroom warms up really quickly and so the heating is on much less. Using a remote Venstar would be a little tricky but not impossible. Let's just talk about heat for simplicity. Time based program at 10pm turn off the Main thermostat. Turns on the remote thermostat. Assume the set points on the remote thermostat are how you want them. Program runs such that when Heat Control on the remote turns on causes Main thermostat turned on with a high heat set point. When Heat Control on the remote turns off, the Main thermostat is turned off. Time based program at 7am to turn off the remote thermostat and turn Main thermostat back on with desired set points. This is the first time I've thought about the details so it may be a little rough.

Thanks.

I know that if you want a program to trigger on a switch being pressed ON or OFF you have to do the CONTROL test for ON and NOT OFF but does this apply to STATUS also. If I want the following program to trigger when a light turns ON or OFF do I need the ON and NOT OFF to execute the Else statement. if Status BedroomLight is ON then Set LivingRoomLight ON else Set LivingRoomLight OFF Thanks

That's all I need the display for. To monitor the temperature in a room. Question: This thing is powered by 2 x AAA batteries. So it must rely on being in sleep mode most of the time. If the ISY was to query temperature say once a minute, wouldn't that reduce battery life considerably?

Thanks Michel for the information. I'm obviously going to have to figure something else out.

I didn't see the latest updates to that thread. Thanks! I will buy one when ISY supports it, hopefully soon now that the Elk gremlins are getting weeded out.

I see the INSTEON Energy Display Item# 2448A2 is now available. I'm hoping to use it as an Insteon thermometer to be able to control a Venstar thermostat manually from the ISY. This would be located in the bedroom so I can control the temperature in the bedroom rather than the rest of the house at night. It's unclear whether it transmits temperature on changes in temperature or just an alert when a dramatic increase or decrease in temperature is detected. I don't think it's currently supported in the ISY but was wondering if Michel had an idea of when it might be supported.

Hi Michel, Unfortunately I don't have a backup from 3.1.9 and even if I did the scenes were not the same back then. I've been doing some extensive work in the last couple weeks with KPL buttons indicating whether I left anything on when I leave the house. I do seem to be up and running now and I've saved a backup which I will keep.

After upgrading to .13 some things starting acting wonky. I could turn my lights on and off with the RemoteLinc but the ISY wouldn't report the correct on/off status. I then noticed that I was missing some devices from my scenes. Only in one room most of the scenes were missing devices. I assumed that that the links in the devices were intact but were missing in the ISY since the controls actually worked, the status just wasn't being updated (which messed with some programs). I tried my backup from .12 to restore the ISY but the scenes were still missing devices. Not really knowing what I was doing: 1. I restored all the devices that participated in the bad scenes hoping to get the devices and the ISY in sync (didn't do anything noticeable) 2. Added the missing devices back into the scenes. It seems the ISY doesn't add links to a device if they already exist because the write was really fast. Everything seems to be working now. I hope I haven't created extra unused links in my devices.

Add each button into a scene and turn the scene on and off. You can't control the buttons directly as a device, you have to add them to a scene even if the button is the only device in the scene. Edit: Beaten to it.

Michel, any chance of a quick patch for this or do we wait for the next full release?

Everything is being observed on my local WLAN. In my case i can duplicate the problem by simply manually query the tstat. 50% of the time the humidity is reported by the adapter as 170. (see previous post) All other values are reported correctly. Your Cool Setpoint is set to 85 degrees, right? (humidity reports 2 x Cool Setpoint) I believe this is a Venstar adapter bug that has been around ever since I first got mine 2 versions ago and they (Smarthome) still haven't fixed it. The good news is if you don't do manual queries it won't happen much.

Got a response to my ticket, the issue has been root caused and UDI is working on a fix now.