Indigo Thermostat Add-on

Update – Stage 1 of the Thermostat Add-on rewrite is done!

Indigo handles Thermostat’s pretty well, but this Add-On for Indigo v5 enhances the information you can get from Indigo.

What does it add?

• New States
  • Maximum Temperature  - Stage 2 feature, The plugin will notify the owner when this temperature is reached
  • Minimum Temperature – Stage 2 feature, The plugin will notify the owner when this temperature is reached
  • acLastOn – The Time/Date when the AC / Cooling was last turned On
  • acLastOff – The Time/Date when the AC / Cooling was last turned Off
  • acLastRunTime – The number of Minutes, that the AC was last run for
  • fanLastOn – The Time/Date when the Fan was last turned On
  • fanLastOff – The Time/Date when the Fan was last turned Off
  • fanLastRunTime – The number of Minutes, that the Fan was last run for
  • heatingLastOn – The Time/Date when the Heat was last turned On
  • heatingLastOff – The Time/Date when the Heat was last turned Off
  • heatingLastRunTime – The number of Minutes, that the Heat was last run for
  • CurrentTemperature – The current Thermostat temperature (courtesy state, so that you don’t have to look at another device)
  • CurrentHeatSetpoint – The current Heat SetPoint, another courtesy state
  • CurrentCoolSetpoint – The current Cooling Setpoint, another courtesy state
  • MaximumTempExceeded – Stage 2 feature, boolean, is set to true if max temperature has been exceeded
  • BelowMinimiumTemp – Stage 2 feature, boolean, is set to true if the temperature has gone below the  min temperature
  • LastUpdated – The Time/date stamp when the add-on states was last updated.

When installed, the changes are most noticeable in the Log file…

Sep 18, 2011 8:28:39 AM
Sent INSTEON “Furnace Link” turn cool on
Received INSTEON “Furnace Link” off (button 2)
Thermostat Add-On The Heating System ran for 7 minutes (Hours: 0.0)