Yes, but who cares about the vent temperature?
It just bugs me looking through my notification listing, but I’m pretty sure I can deal with it 
Cheers,
Matthew
Hi, I just followed the instructions for this. The configure tile appears on the device in the app, but when I click on it, nothing happens (there is a brief flash when I touch it). But nothing opens up. Not sure what to do next. Thanks.
Yes, like any device, when you press the config tile, nothing seems to happen in the UI. But, look in the recently tab, and the polling should have changed to 5 minutes or so, instead of 1 min.
If not, try again, but turn on/off the vents before (briefly remove the batteries before, be careful when doing so)…
Regards.
yes, I see the polling has been affected. Thank you.
Anyone else receiving screws from Keen to install if using the vents as ceiling mount? Looks like they want us to drill into the face plate and install these two screws that are white.
I’ve been thinking on this a bit. I remember seeing some hvac guy say people should “buy smaller homes” if they would consider closing off a vent.
To me, the issue is definitely flawed hvac design. It is silly to imagine that all rooms are always in use throughout the day, and it seems most centralized hvac systems are designed with that silly idea firmly in mind. A typical home has 4-5 people, and in any given moment a room is more likely to be empty - or have people “just passing through”- than to have real occupancy. And we all know from experience that top floors rarely get the heat their owners want.
So a modern house should, if using centralized hvac (a different discussion altogether given other, more modern choices), work on the premise that some rooms will need less airflow than others… that some rooms might only be used three hours a day, and thereafter not need heat or AC until tomorrow or the next day. And that therefore, we could indeed close the vents in a few places without adversely affecting the performance of the system or the service life of its components.
Yeah, not for me. 
I don’t understand why…
Sensor after reverting back to stock:
Sensor using the mod handler…
As soon as I change the handler, the .1 reporting is going away…
I think part of the problem is most people think HVAC is designed to cool/heat a room and, this is kind of right. Really they are designed to build a virtual wall between you and the outside which is why many vents are found wherever an outside wall is located. Vents are actually supposed to be set properly by a professional to be the most economical for the user.
I have my doubts that having these vents helps with anything and actually am guessing it probably hurts you environment and bill. Of course I could be completely wrong on that. I would be cool to see an independent group test these out.
hmmm, me neither…
Well take solace in local execution not being the fix for all things south I guess.
It really helped me a lot…
You’re still running on v1?
no I’m on V2, but I have so many custom apps there’s little left for lights and switches to do…
So for me V2 isn’t going to run my main automations local anyway, regardless of the device type being used…
Yeah, I should restate that. I can see it being very helpful in a situation where the HVAC system isnt right or setup properly for the home.
Exactly, which is probably the norm for tract housing these days…
I will attest these vents work ok but with @Mike_Maxwell app they make my house completely different. room temps are exactly where I want them and hurt my HVAC? no he has pressure control worked out now. Cost more to run HVAC maybe but that is not my biggest concern
Does anyone know if there is plans to do an integration with their bridge for SmartThings much like the Hue Bridge is integrated? That way you can use SmartThings and their auto control app?
Hi Matthew,
The vents’ temperature need to be in a safe range between 45F and 130F.
Based on my discussion with Keen Home, I implemented some temperature checks in my smartapps.
If there is too much pressure in the vents, the resulting impact is that the ducts will be too hot or too cold and this could damage your HVAC.
Regards.
Hi,
For those of who want to control their vents from SmartThings, my smartapps are able to control them in 4 different ways based on schedules that you can define for different periods of the day.
BTW, due to some ST scheduler issues, I’ve implemented some workarounds to avoid most of the ST scheduler failures (provided that the ST scheduler is running of course).
1) If you want to control them based on thresholds for each room/zone in your home, the thresholds may vary during the day according to your predefined schedules
You can set cooling/heating thresholds for each room or zone (ex. upstairs, downstairs) in your home. A zone can be composed of one or multiple rooms.
You can set the thresholds to be different at different times of the day: in the mornings, the thresholds could be different from the evenings for example.
The ScheduleRoomTempControl smartapp can do this with or without a thermostat specified as input parameter.
2) You may want to control your vents based on your existing thermostat setpoints and direct more airflow to the cooler/hotter rooms in your home; example: When my ST hello mode is home, my heat setpoint is 72F and I want only my 1st floor’s vents to be open.
ScheduleTstatZones can schedule not only your thermostat setpoints, but can also control your airflow based on your setpoints. The vent level is then calculated by the smartapp based on the average temp differential collected at the occupied rooms vs. the setpoint for the schedule.
If you have set your home to be ‘heat 71F’ in the mornings in the smartapp, then any rooms below the 71F setpoint will receive more airflow.
ecobeeSetZoneWithSchedule can do the same thing, but based on your climate/program set at your ecobee portal/thermostat.
3) You may want to set all your vents’ level to a hard coded value in some period of the day: ex. at night, I want all my vents to be at 100% in the master bedroom
All my smartapps can schedule some hard coded vent level during a period of the day whether ScheduleRoomTempControl, ScheduleTstatZones, or ecobeeSetZoneWithSchedule.
4) You can even set each individual vent to a specific hard coded value anytime, example: I want my master bathroom’s vent level to be 100% all the time
You can set each individual vent to a hard coded value as an override to all calculations done within the smartapps.
For example, you may want to set your master bathroom vent’s level to 100% all the time in order to get fresh air from your dehumidier/HRV/ERV.
All my smartapps support vent level overrides. These overrides can be changed only when the schedule’s level override flag is set to true. For example, during weekdays, you may want to change the vent level overrides when you’re not home.
In brief, my smartapps are flexible and can support most of the use cases for the vents.
For more details, please refer to the use cases described at the ST community wiki for the smartapps:
http://thingsthataresmart.wiki/index.php?title=Category:Unpublished_SmartApps
Regards.
A question: would we avoid the pressure-related heat problems if we set these to never completely close? Perhaps have them closed 65% in the rooms we aren’t using, while open 100% in the rooms we are using?
Do these vents do that? Or are they binary?