Hello, I’m new to this whole forum. Just got my SmartThings v2 up and running, coming from Nexia. I noticed with routines, I can create goodbye and hello routines. Is there any way to configure those to tell your HVAC system to turn off when doing goodbye, and turn the HVAC system back to AUTO when doing the Hello Routine? I only see the ability to change the temperature to a certain degree for both hello and goodbye routines. It would be nice to either be able to turn the HVAC system off, and then when returning, get it back on its schedule! Thanks! Korey
I’ve had a Vera Edge UI7 for a few weeks now and am trying to figure out how best to turn on/off some lights at sunrise/sunset but for different location than the system location. If this seems weird, you are not wrong. I want to use this for environmental controls for tropical frogs. It would be a slick way to simulate the subtle seasonal changes in day length the animals would experience in the wild. I downloaded an luup script for calculating sunrise and sunset and storing them as variables from another thread and it looks pretty straightforward to modify for any location of interest. Where I am stuck is figuring out how to use those variables to trigger an event. Do I need to create a virtual device and assign the sunrise/sunset variables to it? And where would the calculate sunrise/sunset script go so that it updates the variables each day? I have reasonably good proficiency programming in python but luup is brand new to me and I’m struggling with understanding the bits and pieces of executing luup on the Edge. Any pointers would be much appreciated.
I’m reaching the end of my string with Vera and I wonder if its time to search for a new HA platform. I’ve reached the point where I cannot count on Vera to be working continuously. About once a week now I wake up in the morning to find my ZWave Vera “hung up.” This morning I found the last SysLog entry at 06:54, only the POWER LED ON, Vera responding to the PING and SSH access shows “LuaUPnP” WAS NOT RUNNING and of course no ZWave activity was present. I thought about buying a automatic power switch to power cycle a “hung up” Vera but it uses PING to determine if the device is running and my Vera seems to always respond to the PING even if its isn’t doing anything useful. This same set of circumstances happens about once a week now and seemingly always in the early morning hours. [The Nightly Heal is disabled (“Use Vera Routing” UNCHECKED) at the suggestion of Tech Support for the past month so it isn’t that. The Heal was disabled as this “hang up” was occurring every other day while it was enabled and this seemed to have reduced the frequency at least.] It has been suggested by Tech Support that UI7 fixes a number of RESTART problems, reducing the cause of some of them but I’m willing to bet not the results of such a “hang up.” I’d go to UI7 but there still seems to be reports of an ongoing Plug In problem with several of the ones I depend on, particularly PLEG. I have an ongoing ticket with Tech support for over two months on this problem and thus far there is no resolution – I suspect they have given up on my problem. As a former designer/programmer (20+ years on big iron) seems like a poor basic deign to say the least. I can see the logic of constraining the program to a fixed space in a general purpose computing system so as not to interfere with the accounting system, etc., but this is a dedicated function system … about the only thing it can interfere with is itself, and it seems to do that on a regular basis. Anyway, climbing down from the soapbox I think it may be time to look at another solution. I’ll hang in there to UI7 but if it continues then Homeseer maybe?