Simple thermostat structure and parameters

[mbaastrup]

I have created a virtual thermostat (as I dont have a physical, but a lot of z-wave radiator valves and temp sensors) in HS4 but would like to use your simple setup method - can I find the specs for how to design the parent (a tempsensor I guess) and the parameters that are used to discover child devices. I can the do the linking between them in HS4 in the right way by editing the device json file.

/MB

[jvmahon]

I think it would be difficult to use your virtual thermostat with the "simple" setup method. The "simple" method looks at a number of underlying HomeSeer data structures which I don't think can be set up properly with a virtual device.

[mbaastrup]

Thanks again - I have done it with the complex, not a big problem at all. It was just if you had it at hand, i can navigate the device.json and rearrange the parent/childs but there might be limitations for sure.

Just close this one :-)

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I think it would be difficult to use your virtual thermostat with the "simple" setup method. The "simple" method looks at a number of underlying HomeSeer data structures which I don't think can be set up properly with a virtual device.

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[mbaastrup]

This is exactly what I did, and it work fine (didn’t use the humidity devices though)

On 13 Jan 2021, at 18.47, jvmahon notifications@github.com wrote:

If you did want to try, put the following confirmation information into the "accessories" section of your config.json and set it up as indicated . .

              {
                  "type": "Thermostat",
                  "name":null,  // Whatever name you choose
                  "ref": 0,    // Set to a device that measures temperature. Any thermostat device will do.
                  "controlRef": 0, // Set to a device that can control the mode (off, heating, cooling, see note below)
                  "stateRef": 0,
                  "heatingSetpointRef": 0,
                  "coolingSetpointRef": 0,
                  "humidityRef": 0,
                  "humidityTargetRef": 0
              },

For the controlRef, create a virtual device with the following states / valuesthat : Off = 0, Heat = 1, Cool = 2, Auto = 3

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[jvmahon]

OK, glad to hear you solved it - I'm closing this out. Re-open if there are further questions.