You might want to consider using a 3rd party rules engine like sharptools.io which offers more sophisticated routines with triggers like “Updates”, “Updates and is…”, etc. It also provides for separate Triggering Conditions and logic evaluation. Downside is your routines run in their cloud, but perhaps yours already run in the ST cloud, so…
If it is so important to control your heating you can use your temperature sensor by creating a child virtual thermostat.
If it is zigbee you can use “Zigbee Temp Sensor and Child Thermostat Mc” and if it is zwave you can use “Z-Wave Sensor and Child Thermostat Mc”.
I have been using it for more than two years with Sonoff sensors and I control the heating in winter and the cooling in summer.
I have 5 virtual thermostats that control 5 rooms all day with different temperatures for periods (sleep, auto and rush hour), independently, with precision and automatically.
This is the user manual for the virtual thermostat.
Thanks, I’ll check out the 3rd party rules engine. That looks like it could be a solution.
Yes, controlling the heating is important for me. I live in a very rural area, in what most call a country home. The homes out here do not have HVAC systems, no furnace, no central air. All the heating is done by electric baseboard. Each room has its own baseboard and old-style dial heavy duty thermostats. There is only one type of programable thermostat for electric baseboard that I know of, I tried them, but after a few months it actually caught on fire. This happened 2 times with the programable thermostats. I believe my baseboard, which in some rooms are 10-12 feet long pull too many amps and eventually fries the thermostat. Only the old style, dial, heavy duty ones work, but they don’t work very well.
So to try and get greater control of my heating I stopped using the baseboard heaters and bought stand-alone electric heater. These are expensive heaters that look like furniture or like a fireplace, not the small heaters that are typically used. They are much more efficient than the old baseboard. So, I plugged each one of the heaters (I have 4) into Zooz smart plugs. The smart plugs are what I’m controlling to turn the heaters on and off at certain temps at different times of day. That’s the background.
The temp sensors I’m using are Centralite by Ezlo. They are Zigbee sensors. I’ll take a look at the manual link you posted when I get some time to mess around with this. Thanks.
Looks like I have a few options to explore, just need to find a few hours to play around. Thanks everyone.
BTW - forgot to add, I have been using these heaters and Zooz plugs for 4 years now, but in prior years I just set the on/off temps and left it the same all day all winter. However, this year since the economy is wreaked and my electric bill each month doubled, I decided to try and save some money and lower the trigger temps during the day. Had my electric bill not doubled I wouldn’t need to do this. Thanks.
I use @Mariano_Colmenarejo 's “ZigBee Temp Sensor and Child Thermostat Mc” driver with Tuya Temperature and Humidity sensors (NO LCD displays) to control the electric baseboard heaters at my Cabin. They worked very well last winter.
The actual heaters are connected to Smart ZigBee relays rated at 16 amps. My baseboards are only 4 ft. long and are rated at 1000 watts. So they only draw 4.2 amps at 240 volts well below the rating of the relays.
I also use a wood burning stove when I am at camp. I haven’t figured out how to automate the stove.
I appreciate all the suggestions and help here, but now I have yet another problem. SmartThings no longer sees my Arlo cameras as motion sensors. This is the third time this has happened in the last 2 years. Just all of a sudden ST only sees them as cameras, not as motion sensors. I only use them as motion sensors in ST to turn on lights and as switches to turn them off/on. The Arlo platform does all the rest. Each time the only way to fix it is to remove all my cameras, remove the Arlo integration, add the integration back, and add my cameras back. Problem with that is I have 9 cameras, 18 routines, and SHM. It’s a PITA to set it all back up.
I might be done with ST. Will look into Hubitat or other platforms. Thanks.
Have you tried simply refreshing the Linked Service? Menu Tab->Gear button->Linked services->Arlo->Refresh