Indigo Venstar Thermostat Monitor v1.00 released…

Folks,

Update — The detailed  instructions, 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…  This is a basic plugin designed to extend Indigo…

When installed, the plugin is most noticeable in the Log file…

Received INSTEON   “Furnace Link” off (button 2)
Thermostat         Insteon Thermostat Event being processed
Thermostat         Thermostat requesting Heating – Off
Thermostat         Furnace Heat Ran for  14 Minutes
Thermostat         Thermostat Event Processing Done

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.

Please note, you will need to make a new timed action that runs thermo_reset.scpt whenever you want to reset the counters…  I would suggest midnight, so that you are capturing the 24 hrs period…  The 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.