[Bug] Auto <=> Eco thermostat rule no longer working

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In the topic “New plugin: Personal Thermostat” I mentioned that I use the following rules:

when [Telefoon Harry is absent for 5 minutes and Telefoon Margreet is absent for 5 minutes and Telefoon Floris is absent for 5 minutes] and its after 8:30 and its before 22:00 and mode of thermostaat = \"auto\" then $SavedTempsetPoint = $thermostaat.temperatureSetpoint and set mode of thermostaat to \"eco\" and set $NobodyHome = 1

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when [Telefoon Harry is present or Telefoon Margreet is present or Telefoon Floris is present] and its after 8:30 and its before 22:00 and $NobodyHome = 1 then set temp of thermostaat to $SavedTempsetPoint and set $NobodyHome = 0 and set mode of thermostaat to \"auto\"

So today I decided to check how often that had happened the last days/weeks/month. Not one single time!

I created these rules on version 0.8 and they worked fine. Now, on version 0.9 the second rule still works but the first doesn’t do anything (and in spring/summer when switching to 0.9 it wasn’t necessary so I didn’t think any further).
Due to the new syntax I had to change it a little but now I have no idea what’s wrong.
Even when I change the rule to when Telefoon Harry is absent then $SavedTempsetPoint = $thermostaat.temperatureSetpoint and set mode of thermostaat to \"eco\" and set $NobodyHome = 1 it still doesn’t work.

This is completely event driven but even if I change it to when every 10 seconds and if Telefoon Harry is absent then $SavedTempsetPoint = $thermostaat.temperatureSetpoint and set mode of thermostaat to \"eco\" and set $NobodyHome = 1 it still doesn’t work.
Is this a bug in the rules or in the ShellPresenceSensor evaluation?

The rule when every 10 seconds and if Telefoon Harry is absent then $SavedTempsetPoint = $thermostaat.temperatureSetpoint and set mode of thermostaat to \"eco\" and set $NobodyHome = 1
does work but the set mode of thermostaat to \"eco\" doesn’t do anything.
The for 5 minutes part doesn’t work either.

Hey,

the problem is that you will never get the situation that alle three phones are absent for 5 minutes in the same moment. For this i use some extra rules like the following one:

WHEN iPhone is absent for 5 minutes THEN set $iphone_away = 1

But you also need rules to set the $iphone_away back to 0. eco is not a mode, it is a preconfigured temperature. You have to set the mode to manu and a temp.

Thanks for your reply.

@daice said in Auto <=> Eco thermostat rule no longer working:

the problem is that you will never get the situation that alle three phones are absent for 5 minutes in the same moment.

I can’t remember correctly anymore but I thought I had in 0.8 if [phone 1 = absent and phone 2 = absent] for 5 minutes ..... (so with 2 phones instead of 3 phones)
And that is not possible in 0.9.

For this i use some extra rules like the following one:

WHEN iPhone is absent for 5 minutes THEN set $iphone_away = 1

But you also need rules to set the $iphone_away back to 0. eco is not a mode, it is a preconfigured temperature. You have to set the mode to manu and a temp.

I just started along the same route to do it device by device. The settings for phone_away=1/0 can be done from the ShellPresenceSensor. I will test tonight.

I still think there is a bug though. I mentioned the set mode of thermostaat to \"eco\" doesn’t do anything.
It seems to work though but it is not reflected in the webgui (my webgui). No button change takes place and I also had not one single button active. All buttons remained white. Either the “auto” or “eco” button should turn blue.

There is definitely a bug here: See git issue https://github.com/pimatic/pimatic/issues/994
Maybe that is one of the reasons my rules don’t work

In the pimatic repository I see in actions.coffee the following 2 lines

          modes = ["eco", "boost", "auto", "manu", "comfy"] 
          # TODO: Implement eco & comfy in changeModeTo method!

I see these lines in the devices.coffee

        description: "The current mode"
        type: "string"
        enum: ["auto", "manu", "boost"]

Are eco and boost sub-functions of auto?
But also in that case they are nowhere mentioned. Is that because of the remark in the actions.coffee?

To come back on the first post: It never worked as described above as I had not configured it that way. I had another rule. I found an old config.json (my backups only go 20 days back).
In that config.json I simply set the temperature lower. I had forgotten that (I’m getting old I suppose). On hindsight I now remember that somewhere in September (or so) I thought “that is stupid. that is exactly what the ECO setting is for”, so I changed it to set mode of thermostaat to \"eco\". And that does not work.
So I switched back to the “stupid” method of simply setting the temperature setpoint lower and that works.

Nevertheless: Please make ECO and COMFY “rullable” actions.

@Harry-van-der-Wolf said in [Bug] Auto <=> Eco thermostat rule no longer working:

Nevertheless: Please make ECO and COMFY “rullable” actions.

as it is already an issue on git, i assume this will be reviewed by @sweetpi or @mwittig