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I purchased 6 of the 2GIG CT100 thermostats and a new ISY994I-Z. I also purchased a bunch of the door contacts and motion sensors. I have them all connected and can see them in the ISY.  But I did not think this through.  Goal: Shut off thermostat A/C when door is left open for longer than 10 minutes.  That part was easy.  But I want to turn it back on ONLY if it was off because the program shut it off.  How do I know if the program shut if off, or if it was never on? 

Second question:  I want to roll back the temperature after a period of time of no activity and door is closed (during day) - If motion is sensed or door is open and ONLY if the thermostat has been setback - I want to get it back to where it was.  I am way over my head.  Its a vacation rental in a hot area. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

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I purchased 6 of the 2GIG CT100 thermostats and a new ISY994I-Z. I also purchased a bunch of the door contacts and motion sensors. I have them all connected and can see them in the ISY.  But I did not think this through.  Goal: Shut off thermostat A/C when door is left open for longer than 10 minutes.  That part was easy.  But I want to turn it back on ONLY if it was off because the program shut it off.  How do I know if the program shut if off, or if it was never on? 

Second question:  I want to roll back the temperature after a period of time of no activity and door is closed (during day) - If motion is sensed or door is open and ONLY if the thermostat has been setback - I want to get it back to where it was.  I am way over my head.  Its a vacation rental in a hot area. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

The door opening will trigger a program that will provide the ten minute delay and turn it off.

Another program can detect the door closing and if the first program is running.

A variable could also be used as a condition flag to tell if your ISY program did it.

 

I use a series of programs to detect I am home. Every motion detector triggers a program that calls a retriggerable timer set for about 4 hours. If it times out  then I am not home. Special consideration is used for expected sleep times so the timer will stay as put while I am sleeping. Special consideration is used when my usual exit door MS detects motion there, allowing only 20 minutes to cause the Home flag to reset..

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If

            door is opened

  AND   thermostat mode is not off

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Thermostat setpoints don't change unless you do something to change it. Do you mean to restore the setpoint if someone changes it?

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Is there an example of how to store the temperature setpoint so that i can restore it when motion is detected?

No. Possibly coming in ISY V5.

 

You can run a series of temperature comparisons through the range of expected temperatures (successive approximation via value trial and error) and store the results in a variable. Now you can't store the setpoint saved in the variable back into the thermostat though.

 

It would be much easier to set up a few programs with preset thermostat values and then call them under desired trigger conditions to get your preset setpoints.

 

If

   condition A is on

Then

   set thermostat this way

Else

   Run Program stat2 (if)

 

Program stat2

--------------------

If

   Condition B is ON

Then

    set thermostat that way

Else

   run program stat3 (if)

 

Program stat3

-------------------

If

   ---

Then

   set thermostat the other way

Else

  --

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