{"id":2859,"date":"2010-03-27T19:31:01","date_gmt":"2010-03-27T23:31:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.schollnick.net\/wordpress\/?p=2859"},"modified":"2010-03-29T13:37:21","modified_gmt":"2010-03-29T17:37:21","slug":"indigo-venstar-thermostat-monitor-v1-00-released","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.schollnick.net\/wordpress\/2010\/03\/indigo-venstar-thermostat-monitor-v1-00-released\/","title":{"rendered":"Indigo Venstar Thermostat Monitor v1.00 released&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Folks,<\/p>\n<p><strong>Update &#8212; The detailed \u00c2\u00a0instructions, etc, are now available from <\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.schollnick.net\/wordpress\/home-automation\/venstar-thermostat-usage-monitor\/\"><strong>Venstar Thermostat Monitor. <\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I have just created a new plugin that will allow Venstar Insteon Thermostat users to monitor their daily usage of AC, Heating, and Fan usage&#8230; \u00c2\u00a0This is a basic plugin designed to extend Indigo&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>When installed, the plugin is most noticeable in the Log file&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Received INSTEON \u00c2\u00a0 &#8220;Furnace Link&#8221; off (button 2)<br \/>\nThermostat \u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0 Insteon Thermostat Event being processed<br \/>\nThermostat \u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0 Thermostat requesting Heating &#8211; Off<br \/>\nThermostat \u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0 Furnace Heat Ran for\u00c2\u00a0 14 Minutes<br \/>\nThermostat \u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0 Thermostat Event Processing Done<\/p>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Monaco, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: x-small;\">Several new variables are created to track usage, Heating_dailymins, AC_dailymins, and Fan_dailymins will track the number of minutes that Heating, AC and the furnace fan have been on.<\/p>\n<p>Please note, you will need to make a new timed action that runs thermo_reset.scpt whenever you want to reset the counters&#8230; \u00c2\u00a0I would suggest midnight, so that you are capturing the 24 hrs period&#8230; \u00c2\u00a0The script will append to a csv file in your documents folder that contains the value that are in the AC, Furnace and Fan variables, and then reset the variables to 0.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>[download id=&#8221;7695&#8243;]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Folks, Update &#8212; The detailed \u00c2\u00a0instructions, etc, are now available from Venstar Thermostat Monitor. I have just created a new plugin that will allow Venstar Insteon Thermostat users to monitor their daily usage of AC, Heating, and Fan usage&#8230; \u00c2\u00a0This is a basic plugin designed to extend Indigo&#8230; When installed, the plugin is most noticeable <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"http:\/\/www.schollnick.net\/wordpress\/2010\/03\/indigo-venstar-thermostat-monitor-v1-00-released\/\">[&hellip;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[68,4],"tags":[97,205],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.schollnick.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2859"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.schollnick.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.schollnick.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.schollnick.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.schollnick.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2859"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.schollnick.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2859\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.schollnick.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2859"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.schollnick.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2859"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.schollnick.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2859"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<!-- WP Super Cache is installed but broken. The constant WPCACHEHOME must be set in the file wp-config.php and point at the WP Super Cache plugin directory. -->