[App] ThermoSmart App by Athom - main discussion topic

[Deleted User]

I did not look at Thermosmart for a while, thx for the heads-up. I've the app installed, but where do you login / connect Homey with Thermosmart?

I have:



Solved. 

Bumblez

backslash said:

According to the app description in the app store, the app should be able to:

Set the target temperature
Get the room temperature
Set the outdoor temperature
Pause/Unpause the thermostat

I am able to set and get the target temperature, and get the room temperature (note that I did not use the standard voice commands for any of these... I added my own flows for all of them, and that works fine). I have not been able to find any functionality that would be able to get the outdoor temperature (and how would it? My Thermosmart does not have any outdoor sensors, so it would have to get these data from the internet to be able to do that!). As for "SET the outdoor temperature"... yeah right!  
I haven't tried the pause/unpause yet... at this time, I don't have a use for that

[Edit] I had a look at the app's source code. Apparently there actually is a function to set the outdoor temperature... no idea what that is supposed to accomplish. Maybe @Emile can clarify?
The voice command for this is "Set outside temperature"  or "Zet buiten temperatuur".
(for pause/resume, the commands are  "Pause ThermoSmart" / "Pauzeer ThermoSmart" and "Resume ThermoSmart" / "Hervat ThermoSmart". Could be a pain in the *ss to try and trigger these, given that ThermoSmart is not a standard english word... in Dutch it will be even worse)

bvdbos

Instead of getting the outdoor-temperature from some general source like Buienradar or WeatherUnderground (don't know which source it uses) you can provide your own sensor-value for outdoor-temperature as an input to thermosmart...  Really nice (but don't use it yet)

Bumblez

Ah, that makes sense. Thanks. I still assume it was supposed to be a "get" outside temperature, instead of "set" though... or should ThermoSmart be able to SET the value of that sensor?

bvdbos

If you have a real temperature-value, you have to set it to Thermosmart... Didn't check if you can get the value Thermosmart currently uses.... I wish we could set the outside temperature

quakerix

Hey guys,

is it correct that when I change manually the temperature in the my.thermostat application (web or app) that Homey is not getting updated?

It's not pulling every x minutes or its not getting a push from my.thermostart that a change occurred? 

Eternity

@quakerix

I checked it myself; if I change the temperature with the webinterface from ThermoSmart, Homey does *not* copy the new value.

If I change the temperature in the Homey interface, the ThermoSmart application *does* show the new value.

So:
Homey => ThemoSmart  => YES
ThemoSmart => Homey => NO

quakerix

Hey guys,

I created a feature request: https://github.com/athombv/nl.thermosmart/issues/11

I have now a flow for each degree, that can be done smarter right?

quakerix

quakerix said:

Hey guys,

I created a feature request: https://github.com/athombv/nl.thermosmart/issues/11

I have now a flow for each degree, that can be done smarter right?

@Emile said that i have to use the Logic flow to convert the text to a number value. But how can i do that if the create numeric value can't be used as well. 

Anyone any idea?

jovink

But why do you create a flow for the temperature? 
If I say "Zet thermostaat op 20 graden" then it works without 1 flow. It isn't standard in homey 

GeurtDijker

@quakerix @Eternity
Tested and found the same, I think homey updates only once every 15 minutes using its backup polling mechanism.
Created an issue for it.
https://github.com/athombv/nl.thermosmart/issues/12

AVdKolk

I get error "getaddrinfo ENOTFOUND" api.thermosmart.com

ARJ

Same problem here.  Removing and adding it again worked for me.

GeurtDijker

Do you still have this error @ARJ; and @AVdKolk
I just checked and mine is working.

Eternity

Thermosmart has stops working, showing: 



This seems to have started after an update of the App, before it was working flawlessly for ages. Restarting the App solves the error, but after a day or 2 it is broken again.

I will report the bug via github

quakerix

Eternity said:

Thermosmart has stops working, showing: 



This seems to have started after an update of the App, before it was working flawlessly for ages. Restarting the App solves the error, but after a day or 2 it is broken again.

I will report the bug via github

Same here

Eternity

As a work around I have installed Candy App and made this flow, which restarts the Thermosmart App daily at noon:


Hopefully a solution will be available soon.

daand

There's an update, version 2.0.3.

But no changelog.. 

GeurtDijker

daand said:

There's an update, version 2.0.3.
But no changelog.. 

guess it should fix that issue...

 https://github.com/athombv/nl.thermosmart/commits/master
set available when sync succeeds

ARJ

When I ask Homey to "Verwarming uit" the Thermosmart will not go into "Pauze". I get the message "1 thermostaat kon niet uitgezet worden omdat alleen de temperatuur ingesteld kan worden."

How do I ask Homey to pause the Thermosmart?

GeurtDijker

ARJ said:

When I ask Homey to "Verwarming uit" the Thermosmart will not go into "Pauze". I get the message "1 thermostaat kon niet uitgezet worden omdat alleen de temperatuur ingesteld kan worden."

How do I ask Homey to pause the Thermosmart?

Probably not all Thermostats have an pause and that isn't in the core of Homey and also not in the current Thermosmart App. 
It could be worth a Feature request but as many Homies here complain about the default build in commands. they want to disable......
Could you try to create a flow yourself? 
Something said "Verwarming uit" => Pauze Thermosmart 

ARJ

My own flow works to pause the thermosmart works fine, but the extra information"..... 1 thermostaat kon niet uitgezet worden omdat alleen de temperatuur ingesteld kan worden." is annoying.

GeurtDijker

ARJ said:

My own flow works to pause the thermosmart works fine, but the extra information"..... 1 thermostaat kon niet uitgezet worden omdat alleen de temperatuur ingesteld kan worden." is annoying.

Thanks, I think you have a valid point, 
can you describe what you did and what goes wrong here: 
https://github.com/athombv/homey/issues/1048
(or they create a build in trigger to fix your initial issue ;-))

AVdKolk

GeurtDijker said:

Do you still have this error @ARJ; and @AVdKolk
I just checked and mine is working.

Its working fine now, thanks