Heating / Cooling Panels as Thermostats

ilcato / homebridge-Fibaro-HC2

Homebridge plugin for Fibaro Home Center 2 (and Home Center Lite ...)

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Heating / Cooling Panels as Thermostats #131

Open carlittoer opened 5 years ago

carlittoer commented 5 years ago

Hi,

Is it possible to expose heating and cooling zones as thermostats in the home app the same way they appear in the Fibaro App?

The API lists that the heating and cooling panels (zones) support all methods GET, DELETE, POST, PUT

URL: /api/panels/heating

Description: Returns a list of heating zones and their settings, such as temperature sets.

URL: /api/panels/cooling

Description: Returns a list of cooling zones and their settings, such as temperature sets.

ilcato commented 5 years ago

I already explored this opportunity but I didn’t find suitable actions. Can you check too?

carlittoer commented 5 years ago

Will try of course. I will get familiar with the code first.

Can you please guide me on the challenges you faced while checking this so I can continue from there..

ilcato commented 5 years ago

Will check tonight

carlittoer commented 5 years ago

Hello !

I did some REST test requests and I confirm that you can change the zone "handTemperature" via the API which could expose the heating and cooling panels as thermostats in the home app I hope.


Content-Type: application/json
Authorization: Basic <hash>
cache-control: no-cache
Postman-Token: fd3f70b6-4b4d-40af-9c7a-66851f677b4f
{"mode":"Manual","properties": {"handTemperature":5}}------WebKitFormBoundary7MA4YWxkTrZu0gW--```

ilcato commented 5 years ago

@carlittoer, I'm still not able to set the handTemperature of the panel. Can you confirm that your are using a PUT request to /panels/heating/{heatingID} with a body of: {"mode":"Manual","properties": {"handTemperature":5}}

ilcato commented 5 years ago

@carlittoer, I also need to set the handTimestamp value in order to set the Manual mode; I'm not able to find a call to return to Schedule mode.

ilcato commented 5 years ago

Ok, to return to schedule mode I need to set handTemperature and handTimestamp to 0. I think that I have all the elements to implement an HomeKit thermostat on top of the heating zones.

carlittoer commented 5 years ago

oh great ! This could also work with cooling panels as well for air conditioners :)

Thanks man... can't wait ;)

carlittoer commented 5 years ago

@carlittoer, I'm still not able to set the handTemperature of the panel. Can you confirm that your are using a PUT request to /panels/heating/{heatingID} with a body of: {"mode":"Manual","properties": {"handTemperature":5}}

?

Yes it was a put request with the same data load...

carlittoer commented 5 years ago

Question, do you think 1 thermostat could have the heating mode control the heating panel and cooling mode control the cooling panel?

ilcato commented 5 years ago

I think so

carlittoer commented 5 years ago

Hi,

Are you planning to release this soon? Thanks.

ilcato commented 5 years ago

Very busy atm

carlittoer commented 5 years ago

Hi ! I know you're busy. Just checking if this is scheduled for sometime soon :)

ilcato commented 5 years ago

Next season :-)

carlittoer commented 4 years ago

Hi! Winter is coming :)

Will it be possible to have the panels work as thermostats ?

Thanks!

ilcato commented 4 years ago

Still very busy ...

carlittoer commented 3 years ago

Hi !

Would love to see this implemented this year ...

I can help with testing.