How Nest works is Zipato...?
Hi all! I have two Nest thermostat working nicely. I added those with the specific fuction in Zipabox, and (even if not flawlessly) I managed to include the two, plus it also detected and included the Nest Protect. While the latter shows up perfecly as two separate devices, one for smoke detection and one for CO detection, I don't really get the thermostat approach.
What I basically come up with is two radiators where the mode can be set (off, auto, heat and cool), then I also get another two radiators called thermostatsetpoint, but there's nothing you can do here. I get two temperature meters, where I see the temp and humidity reported by the Nests. And finally, I get a strange "level" device with the icon of a gate, that seems to mirror the home/away/autoaway: strange name, but at least I understand it.
But then... I'm not sure what's wrong, but I cannot do basically anything with them.
1) what's the use of the two additional thermostatsetpoint radiators?
2) when I go to the schedule config, it does not show the schedule already setup in the Nest. Now what, if I define a schedule here, does it overwrites the Nest schedule? Actually, since the Nest self-builds the schedule, I don't want it to change of course, but eventually it would be nice to see it properly reflected in Zipato.
I'm just a beginner! Thanks for any hint :)
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There seems to be a lot of confusion about level controls, virtual thermostats and so forth, and I include myself among the confused. I don't know what level controls or virtual thermostats are for - I completely ignore them.
I have two Nest thermostats whose set points I control via rules in the Zipabox. I do this when there is a reason to deviate from the standard schedule programmed into the thermostats - for example: it's a weekday but I'm at home because it's a public holiday; or it's a weekend but I'm out of the house, etc.
I control them using the devices with the thermometer symbols. See screenshots. This allows the set point to be altered.
I don't think that the schedule is visible in the Zipabox as such. You can see the current temperature and humidity in the device browser (perhaps more than this should be visible?) and you can both read and alter other parameters via rules, including the set point.
There seems to be a lot of confusion about level controls, virtual thermostats and so forth, and I include myself among the confused. I don't know what level controls or virtual thermostats are for - I completely ignore them.
I have two Nest thermostats whose set points I control via rules in the Zipabox. I do this when there is a reason to deviate from the standard schedule programmed into the thermostats - for example: it's a weekday but I'm at home because it's a public holiday; or it's a weekend but I'm out of the house, etc.
I control them using the devices with the thermometer symbols. See screenshots. This allows the set point to be altered.
I don't think that the schedule is visible in the Zipabox as such. You can see the current temperature and humidity in the device browser (perhaps more than this should be visible?) and you can both read and alter other parameters via rules, including the set point.
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