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Those that heat or augment their heating with wood stoves are always concerned with control. I use surface temperature probes to monitor the blower air temp, but you have to be watching them. I also use a flue insert probe to monitor the temperature of the gases coming out of the firebox, but again it is a physical readout and you have to physically monitor the performance. Since my stove is in the basement, it concerns me that if an over temp situation is brewing that I could miss it. What I want to do is to use a k-type probe designed for inserting into the flue pipe and capture the temperature reading so my EISY can notify me to address the situation. Insulated k-type thermocouples are widely available and there are lots of discussions about using an Arduino to gather data, but I have not seen discussions about capturing the data and sending it with a REST command to the EISY. I do something similar with the DS18B20 and a WebController CAI 8bit board for monitoring room temperatures and I was looking to see if there was a way to do something similar with a k-type thermocouple Any thoughts?

Thank you @mjrush and @Ross. These both sound like they could be just what I am looking for. I will start researching all the suggestions, including @paulbates inputs.

I have seen discussions relating to the Pushover app before. That sounds like it could be a candidate for a receptor for data. I would just have to explore the possibility and educate myself. Thanks for the suggestion. As far as capturing the data I want… I know there will have to be devices out there. Temperature sensing with the ds18b20 I am already using. I may want to attempt airflow rate as well… that might take some digging. I have a few devices that measure current usage and I think they might report voltage as well, but I will have to research as I have not used that mode if it exists. This is a long term project, so focusing a way to save the data comes first. Data collection devices will be the 2nd stage. Thanks for the suggestion.

I have an issue with one of my heat pumps and I want to try to analyze what data I can capture in an attempt to predict the next failure. I did a search on writing data, but the few discussions that I found seem to assume the user knows what they are doing. What I need is a dummy’s guide. My plan is to setup some voltage and temperature sensors that will allow me to monitor a few points in the system, then based on system events I want to write what data I can capture for a longer term analysis. In the depths of the forum there is tons of info, but does anyone have a step by step perspective on how I would send the targeted data to a simple data file?

When something in my home automation appears to not be working correctly, one of the first things I do is go to UD Mobile and try to view the contents of the suspected programs. However, due to the complexity of how many of the programs are written, I often see something like the following. Seeing this warning message means I need to go to the EISY or my desktop to bring up the Java interface to see the details of what I wrote in the program. Even if I can’t edit my more complex programs in UD Mobile it would be informative if I could see the text of the program so my debugging process can begin. Might it be possible to present something like simple text or PDF in something like a view mode from within UD Mobile?

@Javi Thanks for response. I figured the beta status probably implied there was much work in progress. I will continue to watch and test as updates occur.

I have been experimenting with the new UD Mobile Graphical Charting beta option that was discussed in the recent UD News email. All in all, things are working. I realize that this feature is still in beta, but is there a way to constrain the x-axis, as an example… to the last 24 hours? In the example here I bring up the temperature response for the main thermostat and you can see it defaults to the time window just after 1:00 AM, when the time I did this was 11:30 AM on the same day. I am sure there will be further improvements. I think this ability is great. Currently I do this with Home Assistant… here is an example for the same device. Just a suggestion it would be cool to be able to display the graphical history as a separate object on the Dashboard, as opposed to having to select the device, then the device dashboard and then scroll to the graph. I think this is a great feature and I am looking forward to watching it’s evolution.

Thank you @larryllix... that is essentially what I have done for now. It is a simple solution.

@paulbates Thank you. I saw that and having the status in Climate didn't initially make sense, but I just setup a test case using Climate and the Vacation state and it worked perfectly. @dbwarner5 I agree with your approach. Eventually, I hope to go in an integrate my own Vacation controls into my programs so that everything remains explicitly controlled by the EISY. This is will take some time... and with that in mind, detecting the state and letting the thermostat control vacation settings was a quicker solution. Using the detection to disable folders of HVAC control was just a quick solution.

I want to be able to detect when my Ecobee's are in Vacation Mode. The Vacation Mode controlled my the Vacation setting in the app works great, but I have some programs that could possibly override things and I want to be able to detect the Vacation Mode being enabled so the program folders in question can be set to not run. However, when I try to determine how to detect the Vacation Mode state in EISY, I can't see how to do this. Has anyone attempted to do the same?

Thank you @Ross. Your response helped me understand the basics… I was not even close to thinking age/time since last new moon.

I have the Sun Nodeserver running, but the Moon Phase just reports a number... right now it is showing 18. I have looked for some documentation for this NS and I can not find a valid link. Any input appreciated.

My EISY has been offline for months and this morning I decided to re-activate and update everything. No issues updating the firmware, the UI or PG3 and all appears OK, but I saw the note a few posts back about the "Z-Wave | OTA Firmware Upgrade menu items" being available. I looked at a few z-wave devices and I see nothing regarding the OTA capability. Here is a screen shot of one of the z-wave devices. Perhaps someone can comment on what I am missing.

Just wanted to update. The Polisy Pro is still available. Asking $189 and the unit is available on eBay with free shipping… just search for “Polisy Pro”

After further review, asking price lowered to $219. PM if interested.