timekiller Posted August 6, 2018 Posted August 6, 2018 I see in the isy portal that you can use state variables as on/off devices and set them to a value. What I am looking for is a way to ask google what a value is. I want to start setting a variable for my pool temperature and want to be able to ask google what that temp is. Any thoughts on this?
bmercier Posted August 7, 2018 Posted August 7, 2018 11 hours ago, timekiller said: I see in the isy portal that you can use state variables as on/off devices and set them to a value. What I am looking for is a way to ask google what a value is. I want to start setting a variable for my pool temperature and want to be able to ask google what that temp is. Any thoughts on this? A variable is exposed to Google Home as if it was a dimmer. So as you already know, you can set it to a specific value by asking to turn it on to a specific percentage. You can ask something like: Okay Google, what is the kitchen brightness? This will tell you the actual variable value. This is not too intuitive, but it works. Benoit
apostolakisl Posted August 14, 2018 Posted August 14, 2018 I'm speaking theoretically here since I haven't tried this, but the portal does support reporting theremostat temps upon a logical statement listed as "what is the inside temperature". The logic does fail since the pool is not "inside". I also don't know what it does if you have more than one thermostat since that command as listed in the wiki includes no mention of the device name. I have seen hacks where people have adapted ISY linkable thermostats to read temps from liquids.
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