Alexa, Thermostats & 5.0.9

[andyf0]

In 5.0.9, whatever was wrong querying thermostats is now fixed. So I went to ask Alexa the temperature of my thermostat and she reported it was 770 degrees. There's a precision problem here that also messes up MobiLinc. I think it's a MobiLinc problem when using MobiLinc but maybe the Portal could be fixed to have Alexa report the correct temperature?

 

I'm using Honeywell Z-Wave thermostats.

 

Thanks

[Outlander]

I just tried this and it responded correctly for me, but I have the Insteon thermostat and it is reporting in Celsius. 

[bmercier]

In 5.0.9, whatever was wrong querying thermostats is now fixed. So I went to ask Alexa the temperature of my thermostat and she reported it was 770 degrees. There's a precision problem here that also messes up MobiLinc. I think it's a MobiLinc problem when using MobiLinc but maybe the Portal could be fixed to have Alexa report the correct temperature?

 

I'm using Honeywell Z-Wave thermostats.

 

Thanks

 

Could you post the output of:

http://<your_isy_ip>/rest/nodes/<your_thermostat_address>

 

Thanks,

 

Benoit

[andyf0]

Could you post the output of:

http://<your_isy_ip>/rest/nodes/<your_thermostat_address>

 

Thanks,

 

Benoit

 

Here you go: FYI, Dashboard also reports current temp & set points with a zero on the end of the temperature. e.g. 75 is shown as 750.

 

<nodeInfo>

<node flag="128" nodeDefId="UZW0049">

<address>ZW038_1</address>

<name>HU.(TS).HNWL_ZW</name>

<family>4</family>

<parent type="3">16841</parent>

<type>4.8.6.0</type>

<enabled>true</enabled>

<deviceClass>1</deviceClass>

<wattage>1000</wattage>

<dcPeriod>60</dcPeriod>

<startDelay>0</startDelay>

<endDelay>0</endDelay>

<pnode>ZW038_1</pnode>

<sgid>1</sgid>

<devtype>

<gen>4.8.6</gen>

<mfg>57.17.1</mfg>

<cat>140</cat>

</devtype>

<ELK_ID>E08</ELK_ID>

<property id="ST" value="750" formatted="75.0°F" uom="" prec="1"/>

<property id="CLIMD" value="3" formatted="Auto" uom=""/>

<property id="CLISPC" value="820" formatted="82.0°F" uom="" prec="1"/>

<property id="CLISPH" value="750" formatted="75.0°F" uom="" prec="1"/>

</node>

<properties>

<property id="CLIFRS" value="0" formatted="Off" uom=""/>

<property id="CLIFS" value="0" formatted="Auto" uom=""/>

<property id="CLIFSO" value="0" formatted="No Override" uom=""/>

<property id="CLIHCS" value="0" formatted="Idle" uom=""/>

<property id="CLIMD" value="3" formatted="Auto" uom=""/>

<property id="CLISPC" value="820" formatted="82.0°F" uom="" prec="1"/>

<property id="CLISPH" value="750" formatted="75.0°F" uom="" prec="1"/>

<property id="ST" value="750" formatted="75.0°F" uom="" prec="1"/>

</properties>

</nodeInfo>

Edited April 7, 2017 by andyf0

[bmercier]

 

Here you go: FYI, Dashboard also reports current temp & set points with a zero on the end of the temperature. e.g. 75 is shown as 750.

 

<nodeInfo>

<node flag="128" nodeDefId="UZW0049">

<address>ZW038_1</address>

<name>HU.(TS).HNWL_ZW</name>

<family>4</family>

<parent type="3">16841</parent>

<type>4.8.6.0</type>

<enabled>true</enabled>

<deviceClass>1</deviceClass>

<wattage>1000</wattage>

<dcPeriod>60</dcPeriod>

<startDelay>0</startDelay>

<endDelay>0</endDelay>

<pnode>ZW038_1</pnode>

<sgid>1</sgid>

<devtype>

<gen>4.8.6</gen>

<mfg>57.17.1</mfg>

<cat>140</cat>

</devtype>

<ELK_ID>E08</ELK_ID>

<property id="ST" value="750" formatted="75.0°F" uom="" prec="1"/>

<property id="CLIMD" value="3" formatted="Auto" uom=""/>

<property id="CLISPC" value="820" formatted="82.0°F" uom="" prec="1"/>

<property id="CLISPH" value="750" formatted="75.0°F" uom="" prec="1"/>

</node>

<properties>

<property id="CLIFRS" value="0" formatted="Off" uom=""/>

<property id="CLIFS" value="0" formatted="Auto" uom=""/>

<property id="CLIFSO" value="0" formatted="No Override" uom=""/>

<property id="CLIHCS" value="0" formatted="Idle" uom=""/>

<property id="CLIMD" value="3" formatted="Auto" uom=""/>

<property id="CLISPC" value="820" formatted="82.0°F" uom="" prec="1"/>

<property id="CLISPH" value="750" formatted="75.0°F" uom="" prec="1"/>

<property id="ST" value="750" formatted="75.0°F" uom="" prec="1"/>

</properties>

</nodeInfo>

 

 

Thanks Andy.

 

Can you confirm that when you set your thermostat using Alexa, it works correctly?

 

Benoit

[andyf0]

The temperature setting does work. However, my thermostat is always in Auto mode with set points at 75H 82C. Whatever temperature I tell Alexa to set she always changes the heat setpoint, never the cool setpoint, but then I probably don't understand how it works in Auto. I'm sure what you wanted to know though was if she accepted normal numbers for input and she does appear to do so.

Edited April 7, 2017 by andyf0

[bmercier]

Just a quick note to let you know the problem has been fixed in dev. It should be live on the next deployment to production.

[andyf0]

Awesome. Thanks!

[andyf0]

Benoit,

 

When you ask Alexa for the temperature she prefixes it with "Inside it is ...............".

 

Is that Alexa or part of the Smarthome skill?

[paulbates]

Andy, its part of the skill. My Venstar Colortouches say that and they are not connected to the ISY via Portal for this function, but using the Venstar Smarthome Skill

[andyf0]

Thanks, seems silly to me! How would you indicate an outside sensor/temperature?

[bmercier]

Thanks, seems silly to me! How would you indicate an outside sensor/temperature?

 

For Amazon, this is though for a thermostat, which is implicitly "inside". An outside sensor is probably not a use case they though of.

 

 

Benoit