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Heating scheduler for Athom Homey
https://homey-heating.mskg.app/
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Add a heater event #81

Open zkrasnay opened 5 years ago

zkrasnay commented 5 years ago

As some heating systems are using switches to start the central heater, it would be fine to have implemented a heater event e.g. Boolean HEATER_REQUIRED, that is possible to use as a trigger to start/stop the central heater in some flows. It should be set to TRUE if at least one of the virtual thermostats is ON and it should be set to FALSE if all of the thermostats are OFF.

Even better enhancement of the application would be to be able to associate it with an existing switch/z-wave device that operates the heater directly.

mskg commented 5 years ago

So, you want the plans to control the HEATING on/off?

The thermostats report the target_temperature and also changes to it, which could be caused by a manual change or the schedule. Could that be done with:

Did I understand that correctly?

zkrasnay commented 5 years ago

Hi Markus, yes, with just a small correction: It could control the HEATING on/off, but the comparison shall be done according the measured temperatures of the existing sensors or external temperature sensors instead of the set/fixed value

Current temperatures Homey already provides from existing temperature sensors.

There are then 2 setups of heating possible

It would be great, if you are able to implement it.

Best regards, Zdenko

mskg commented 5 years ago

Can you try if (https://homey.app/en-us/app/no.almli.thermostat/VThermo/) solves the problem with the thermostat / switch. According to the description and #128 it should support your scenario oob.