Lowering thermostat when leaving - energy efficient?

[tslagle13 (Tim Slagle)]

Logging Thermostat Status to Xively

Some folks were asking for this feature, so here’s the app for you: http://build.smartthings.com/projects/xively/logging-thermostat-status-to-xively/ Please note that I don’t own an ST-compatible thermostat, so I have only tested it in a simulator. Let me know if it works or not. Enjoy /Hack

GroveStreams SmartApp

Hi, www.grovestreams.com is a service that will graph your devices and let you build a dashboard. Here’s my SmartApp, adapted from @florianz ThingSpeak app to let you connect your devices to GroveStreams. You’ll need a free account first, when your create one it will prompt you for an organisation name - you can enter something like “Home”. Once you have created your organisation you need to get the “Feed PUT API key”: [image] It’s long… you might want to email this to your phone so that you can cut and paste it into the ST app. The SmartApp uses the device name as the “Component” in GroveStreams and the capability attribute (e.g. “temperature”) becomes a “Stream” in GroveStreams. These will be auto created so you don’t need to set them up in GroveStreams. However, once they have been…