RBoy
March 7, 2017, 6:16pm
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You can always use a combination of temperature sensors (e.g. Monoprice or ZooZ which are cheap) and a Mini Plug Switch to control your electric baseboard and combine it with CoRE or a SmartApp like this to remotely manage it.
Humidity and Temperature Management with Scheduling
Automatically manage and schedule the climate (humidity and temperature) for your rental homes and vacation homes using HVAC’s, heaters, coolers, fans, humidifiers, dehumidifiers and more appliances. Also useful for older homes without a thermostat or for rooms which have heating and cooling appliances in them with no HVAC or homes with WiFi thermostats. See below for a full list of features:
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This Device Handler is for the ZooZ 4 in 1 Sensor (ZSE40) with Temperature, Motion, Luminescence and Humidity sensor. There are a few versions of this floating around the forum, we’ve written this handler from ground up on request from a few folks since the existing ones had some issues.
The device can be bought from Amazon for about $37 (prime) here
It can also be bought from TheSmartestHouse
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Classic App
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Key features of his device handler include:
Reading the following sensors
Temperature
Humidity
Light
Motion
Battery
Ability to select the primary sensor to show in the ‘Things’ page (Temperature, Motion, Humidity or Light)
Ability to configure the following parameters:
Motion timeout
Temperature sensitivity
Tem…
I’ve spent a few weeks using some of zooZ’s latest Z-Wave products and have put together a few device handlers for them. I am very impressed with these devices. They are small, affordable, look nice, and are very configurable. The Mini Plug is especially noteworthy. It is the smallest network controllable plug I have used. Really cool stuff!
If anyone wants to grab one you can get them from thesmartesthouse.com http://www.thesmartesthouse.com/collections/zooz-z-wave-plus-mini-series
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zooZ Mini Plug (ZEN07)
Energy Monitoring
Enable / Disable LED
Enable / Disable Manual Control
Auto Off Timer
zooZ Mini Sensor (ZSE09)
Motion Sensitivity Configuration (or disable)
LUX Reports
Enable / Disable LED
Luminance Offset
zooZ Cont…
UPDATE DEC 19 2017:
If you are still using CoRE, please update to the latest version as soon as you can. Here’s what changed:
v0.3.16e.20171219 - RC - Replaced recovery safety nets using unschedule() with a much more optimized method that does not affect ST as much as unschedule() does
This is important as CoRE has been identified as a major choke point on a certain method that it uses (ST describes that as expensive in their documentation. As it turns out, it is. With ST’s help, CoRE is now able to recover from timeouts much faster and with a lot less resources than by using its own recovery safety net. You should also consider moving on to webCoRE instead, as CoRE is no longer actively maintained and only gets critical updates.
Thank you
Continuing in the BETA process of CoRE (mil…