Is there a way to set 1 temperature instead of 7 days worth? Currently I have to set all days to the same temp and change all of them if i wish to tweak it. I do use remote sensors to detect the temp, just want to simplify a single temp change.
There are only three âdaysâ worth of settings you can enter here, weekday and Sat/Sun. So you have the same schedule for each work day. We could provide an option of use the same setting for all 7 days if thatâs what youâre looking for.
Meanwhile, have you checked out the other apps which may meet your needs?
The option would be great. My heat schedule is a weekday / weekend, but my a/c schedule doesnât change.
Tis the season for vacations!
RBoy,
Is there something in this scheduler that would hold the setting while Iâm away for some time? Like, if l were to go on vacation for a week, I would like to set the stat to some temp and have it hold that setting and disregard the programatic changes. Then on the way home, log in and have it resume. Now it seems I have to change every dayâs settings to keep the A/C from coming on.
This is the app youâre looking for:
When in different modes you can customize the temperature levels (independently for each thermostat), set your regular 5-2 day thermostat to run only when in Home mode and for all other modes use the above app to define the âmaintenanceâ levels.
Hi,
I just subscribed to your apps and installed this 5-2 thermostat app. My ST system is fairly simple, just a Zen Thermostat and a few remote temperatures sensors and leak detectors. The Zen is controlled a gas central heating system, we have no central cooling system.
Up until this point Iâve just been switching the Zen between Off and Heat when we come home/go to bed etc.
With this SmartApp it seems that it assume the thermostat is in an Auto or Heat mode? ie. I installed it whilst at work, told it to set the heat point to 20C at 5:50PM (and set the cooling to 25C as it was required?). When I got home to a cold house I realised it was because despite your app setting the heat set point to 20C correctly, the Zen was still in Off (how I left it this morning).
Now, this all makes sense I guess - I can live with setting an imaginary cooling set point and setting the heat to 20 when home and 14 at night or when âleavingâ. But I noticed that thereâs an optional fan control for each time. Could there be an optional mode setting as well? In my case Iâd use âHeatâ and âOffâ. Does that even make any sense to anyone else? Iâm from the UK, living in Australia so perhaps weâre used to different thingsâŠ
The app doesnât change the mode, it only sets the temperature (like you said if your thermostat doesnât support cool, itâll just ignore it). Why donât you just leave your thermostat set to heat and set the temperatures to turn the heat on/off. So set it to 20 when youâre at home and set it to 10 when youâre away. Itâs best not to mess with the modes in our experience since it creates other issues. The ideal way would be to set the temperature ranges. E.g. when youâre away you donât want the house to freeze over right? So set it to 5C for the times you arenât at home.
I realised the other reason I stuck with turning the mode on and off with ST + Zen is that the integration between the two of them isnât working too well for me. Changing the mode works fine, but changing the heating setpoint via ST is randomly over-written seconds or minutes later most of the time. Sometimes it works. This morning I tapped the Up arrow on the default Zen DTH to go from 16 to 17 to 18 and before my eyes it flicked back to 16. I think yesterday the 5+2 smart app change from 14 to 20 actually stuck, but itâs pretty rare.
Itâs like thereâs another ghostly device in my system that has other ideas about what the setpoint should be. It may be the Zen itself I guess. When I stood in front of it and tapped its screen to wake it up and check the setpoint it worked. I have contacted Zen support but have yet to hear back from them.
Youâve likely got more than one SmartApp controlling your device which is conflicting with each other. Open your IDE -> My Devices -> click on your device and list the events and see which apps are sending commands to your devices.
###5-2 Day Thermostat with Remote Sensor - Version 03.04.02
- Added support for temporary hold for all modes (with and without remote temperature sensors)
- Added support to manually reinitialize the thermostat schedule by clicking on the Arrow next to the SmartApp name
The SmartApp detects if the user changed the temperature manually and will not override the temperature until the next scheduled temperature change.
Please open the SmartApp click Next and then Done for the âArrowâ to show up. (this only needs to be done once after updating the code).
Thanks RBOY,
Looking forward to using this new feature.
No, I checked that.
In talking with Smartthings support they say theyâve seen this before with Zen (if that was documented publically I may not have bought oneâŠ). Zen support say there is a new firmware (for the Zen?) out âin a monthâ but in trying to get more out of both ST and Zen support Iâve not been able to ascertain how that will be deployed or if itâs possible to get it earlier. At the moment Iâve simply deleted your app as itâs useless for me at the moment , not that itâs your fault. In about 8 weeks I wonât even need the heating again for around 7 monthsâŠ
Hi there,
I am a new user and having a problem with the remote sensor feature. I tried searching the forum, but canât seem to find a similar problem.
So, I have a downstairs thermostat (GoControl using the Enhanced Z-Wave Thermostat device handler) and an upstairs temperature/motion sensor (Monoprice using the Monoprice PIR Motion Detector with Temperature Sensor device handler). Whenever I try to use the option to use a remote temperature sensor to control the thermostat, it sets the cooling set point to 90. This problem does not occur if I decline the option to use a remote temperature sensor, and just use the thermostat as the temperature sensor.
For example, I have it programmed to cool to 68 using the remote sensor to monitor the temperature. The current temperature in the upstairs remote sensor is reading 70, and the downstairs thermostat reads 71. The thermostat cooling set point adjusts to 90. Now, when I go back to the app and unselect the option for remote sensor (and use the thermostat to read temperature), it correctly adjusts the cooling set point to 68.
Any thoughts?
Thatâs normal behavior when youâre using a remote sensor.
Detailed Explanation: When using a remote sensor the temperature is measured at the remote location and not where the thermostat is located. The thermostat is set to 50 degrees when cooling and 90 degrees when heating and vice versa to turn the HVAC off when the desired remote temperature is reached.
Thanks for your quick reply!
Your response makes sense to me if the desired temperature was reached. In my case, the set point I defined in the app (68) is lower than the temperature in the house at both the remote sensor (70) and downstairs thermostat (71). Therefore- it should trigger the thermostat to cool, but rather it seems to be going in standby mode (cooling set point at 90- so AC is not on) or it wonât trigger a thermostat change at all.
It seems like it is not using the information from the remote sensor properly. Because, once I select the app to only use the thermostat temperature as the sensor, it works perfectly.
Itâs working fine here in the labs, check your settings again. You may have defined operating modes or your remote sensors isnât reporting to the SmartApp what you think itâs showing.
Also note that if youâre using multiple remote sensors it uses the average of all the remote sensor temperature readings.
5-2 Day Thermostat with Remote Sensor - Version 03.05.00
- Updated app to support STâs new Thermostat device handler with âDeadzonesâ
SmartThings new thermostat defines deadzones which would interfere with the operation of this SmartApp when using remote sensors. Update to this version if youâre using Remote Sensors.
Hey RBoy, I am recently have an issue on my 2 thermostats using your z-wave thermostat device handler. This app is not updating my set point. Looking at the recent activity, it seems that my schedule app sent the set point at the correct time (9AM - Leave time) but the setpoint never actually updated. It then happened at 745PM - Sleep time. How can I begin to troubleshoot this?
Both the device handler and this app are running the latest version.
Couple of things to note.
- ST has made some changes in the latest release where the heat and cool
setpoint needs to be atleast 3 degrees apart otherwise the device handler
will do it automatically. - If the command is being sent but not received by the thermostat then the
thermostat is having zwave mesh issues. Try to reboot your hub, hit the
reset button on the thermostat and then do a z wave repair. That usually
fixes it.
Could you explain what you mean by the device handler will do it?