Query of Venstar

[stevehoyt]

I have noticed that my heat/cool state does not reflect the status of the furnace. For example my furnace is running, but when I look in the admin console is shows it as being off. Looking in the log I see that the message was never receiived from the thermostat that it turned on. This may be related to my network or problems I am having with the dongels, that is not my question as I am working on that.

 

My question is

 

I then do a query on the thermostat and the status does not change.

 

Looking in the log I see that the current state is not returned when the query is done. Is this normal? Is that not a value able to be queried or is it a bug somewhere.

 

Thanks

[Michel Kohanim]

Hello stevehoyt,

 

Unfortunately query does not return the status of heat/cool ... that information is only available in unsolicited messages by the thermostat to PLM.

 

With kind regards,

Michel

[stevehoyt]

Thanks

 

That is what I suspected was the case

[matapan]

At some point, the Admin Console was updated to segregate thermostat information, from one entry per thermostat to 4 entries. In addition to the thermostat information, there is Heat State, Cool State, and Fan State. In reading this thread, the information is simply a placeholder for any unsolicited messages from the thermostat to the PLM.

 

What was the intention for the use of this information? It seems that polling the thermostat device at will or at specified intervals would get most of this information as well. Is there something more that can be gleaned from these extra entries that is useful which cannot be obtained through the device entry itself?

[Sub-Routine]

Hi matapan,

 

The Main node is a Responder. The other three nodes are controllers.

 

Rand