Thermostat Enhancement Plugin

[matt (support)]

I believe Jay was suggesting one could use the Has any change trigger with a conditional that then checks the range (there are conditionals for between/not between testing). Then it could all be done with a single Trigger. We should probably add triggers for range checking though to make it simpler.

[jay (support)]

"is not between" condition

Note, I said "condition"...

[EDIT] Matt's reply was on page two of the thread and I didn't see it.

I believe Jay was suggesting one could use the Has any change trigger with a conditional that then checks the range (there are conditionals for between/not between testing). Then it could all be done with a single Trigger. We should probably add triggers for range checking though to make it simpler.

I'm not sure that I see how that works... But that could be the result of a bug? I don't see a condition editor in my Triggers -> Conditions screen...

See screenshot at http://dl.dropbox.com/u/241415/misc/Scr ... 3%20PM.png

I took a look in the console log, and I noticed:

1/22/12 2:29:33.529 PM Indigo 5: initFromElem (condition panel)() caught exception: InternalError
1/22/12 2:30:33.279 PM Indigo 5: initFromElem (condition panel)() caught exception: InternalError

This is roughly the same time I went into the condition panel of the triggers....

- Benjamin

[matt (support)]

That definitely looks like a bug. Is it reproducible? Does it always happen? Does restarting the Indigo client help?

One trigger with an "is not between" condition would work as well. Just saying...

Actually, after thinking about it. It wouldn't. There are two different conditions.

If temperature is greater than max_heat...

If temperature is less than min_heat.

So, is not between wouldn't work....

[matt (support)]

But I do not see how

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If temperature is greater than max_heat
  OR
If temperature is less than min_heat

is not identical to:

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if temperature is not between min_heat and max_heat

?

But I do not see how

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If temperature is greater than max_heat
  OR
If temperature is less than min_heat

is not identical to:

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if temperature is not between min_heat and max_heat

?

Possibly, but since I can't see the condition editor, I can't test it...

I can't talk about features, I can't see...

[matt (support)]

Which is exactly why I asked you to help debug into what is going wrong above:

That definitely looks like a bug. Is it reproducible? Does it always happen? Does restarting the Indigo client help?

Which is exactly why I asked you to help debug into what is going wrong above:

That definitely looks like a bug. Is it reproducible? Does it always happen? Does restarting the Indigo client help?

I missed that. Sorry...

As far as I can tell, it happens with Remote Clients, as well as the client on the server.... My test database, is showing the condition editor....

I've checked on the main system, and it appears to be an issue with a plugin. The console log is showing the full error on the indigo server... I think you may want to check the error via the remote client and make the user aware of the situation.... (It appears that one of the plugins I have is missing an trigger label... disabling the plugin resolves the issue...)

But if memory serves me right, I though you couldn't enable the plugins if it was missing an label? That was a late v5.00 beta change that I ran into earlier, if memory serves me right...

- Ben

[matt (support)]

It does let you enable the plugin, but the plugin will be in a bit of a crippled state (it should also log an error in the Event Log when the plugin starts up -- is that not there? I'm seeing it in my test case here.).

It shouldn't, of course, be able to munge the main conditional editor UI like that though. We'll get that improved in the next beta.

[matt (support)]

The next version (5.0.3, not yet available) will handle this better. If a plugin has an invalid XML file, then the error will be logged and the plugin will be temporarily disabled.

[jay (support)]

So, now that we've figured out why the Condition Editor isn't showing and you can just disable the buggy plugin to fix it, can we now agree that a single trigger with a single condition can alert the user to min or max temperature violations?

Just upgraded from v4pro to 5.12pro
Could someone please point me to the v5 Venstar Thermostat Usage Monitor download.

The User Contrib Lib only show v4

Schollnick.com talks about a v5, with the newest version v1.01. Is 1.01 the Indigo v5 download? Same file names that are in my v4 folder.
I downloaded it, restarted server, but nothing shows up in a browser like it used to at http://xxx.xxx.x.x:8176/

Just upgraded from v4pro to 5.12pro
Could someone please point me to the v5 Venstar Thermostat Usage Monitor download.

The User Contrib Lib only show v4

Schollnick.com talks about a v5, with the newest version v1.01. Is 1.01 the Indigo v5 download? Same file names that are in my v4 folder.
I downloaded it, restarted server, but nothing shows up in a browser like it used to at http://xxx.xxx.x.x:8176/

https://dl.dropbox.com/u/241415/Thermos ... 0v1.00.zip
Should be the latest...

I've received very little feedback from the v5 plugin release.... So, please feel free to drop me a line...

---- I added this below ----
The reason the v5 plugin is has a version 1 number, is because it's a complete rewrite, with significantly better features, then the original Applescript attachment script...

So, the Applescript version is considered (to me) to be a totally different application...

Just upgraded from v4pro to 5.12pro
Could someone please point me to the v5 Venstar Thermostat Usage Monitor download.

The User Contrib Lib only show v4

Schollnick.com talks about a v5, with the newest version v1.01. Is 1.01 the Indigo v5 download? Same file names that are in my v4 folder.
I downloaded it, restarted server, but nothing shows up in a browser like it used to at http://xxx.xxx.x.x:8176/

https://dl.dropbox.com/u/241415/Thermos ... 0v1.00.zip
Should be the latest...

I've received very little feedback from the v5 plugin release.... So, please feel free to drop me a line...

---- I added this below ----
The reason the v5 plugin is has a version 1 number, is because it's a complete rewrite, with significantly better features, then the original Applescript attachment script...

So, the Applescript version is considered (to me) to be a totally different application...

OK, so now I'm totally confused [as usual].

- v4 has a web interface that displays run times and end of day totals.
- v4 has a web interface that displays a great graphical usage chart.
- Does v4 work in v5? As the above two features are very useful.
- What exactly does v5 do? How do you use it? I have it installed, but don't what to do next.
- Are their any tutorials/examples/scenarios/screenshots