You and I, same wavelength, was about to post this: [RELEASE] Unlimited customizable thermostat
Appears RBoy left the original version, which I would suspect is more than good enough for the basics.
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I’ve started moving my thermostats over to CoRE…
I created a piston for each one with the schedule based on made changes and days of the week…
A specialized app isn’t going to do any more than that… Unless you have one of those fancy smancy thermostats…
I just use a little ole Honeywell myself… keeps me cold and warm…
I do this with mine, but all based on modes, presence, and motions, no times. My family never ever ever ever ever does anything at the same time.
Mine is the same way… And my family is huge (8 kids + my parents) so my house is never empty… So, it stays cool/warn all of the time… Just different levels of cool and warm
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Hmm, I’ll have to check into this.
Honeywell ZWave. Yes; it has an internal scheduler. No, it does not work. I had a ticket open with Honeywell and spoke to their (1) zwave guy who said they know the internal scheduler sucks, but they designed it to be controlled from the hub.
Yes, I already have this SmartApp from when it was free, and it didn’t work well. So either it’s outdated, or ST scheduler system sucks. Or both 
CoRE may be your answer then. And the schedule sucked for a long time, so maybe you should give it one more shot first for simplicity’s sake.
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This is an interesting concept that I can’t wrap my head around; maybe because it’s just me and my wife at home (no kids yet).
Motion to control thermostat sounds awesome; until there’s no motion during the day and the house warms up to 80. Then when I get home (to a hot house), it finally detects motion and starts to cool the house down, which will take 3 hours (plus an unhappy wife).
Thats why I use timers based on our work routines, but do you suggest another method?
I’m still on hub v1. Is it worth upgrading to hub v2 (for any benefits besides local processing (which from what I read doesn’t show much benefit))?
Yeah thanks, I started drifting there.
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I constantly “bump” mine.
If we are close to house, it’s bumped. Someone home, bumped. Motion on a floor, bumped. Sleeping, a different comfort level. People leave, bumped down.
I find if you work in stages/steps, you are never too far from comfort. My family hates the idea in theory, but they never realize I’m doing it in practice. I found it best not to tell them.
Ironically, when the house starts blowing heat/cool, they think it’s doing something, so they believe it’s warmer/colder than it is. I swear temperature is more psychological than it is reality.
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I use presence sensors to set thermostat set points. It just me/wife and my son. Once we all go away it triggers Away and Nest-Manager sets the temp (I have 2 nests). You can also set it in the routine.
My presence kicks in about 5 minutes out from my house, so the A/C is already running full blast and even if its a bit warm you can still feel the coolness. I usually don’t let the cool go above 76-78 (usually around 70-72 when we are home) since running the A/C for 3 hours to get it back down, versus just having it at a maintenance temp of 76, which takes about an 30-60 minutes to get it back to 72, kills any cost savings of not running it.
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