{"id":751,"date":"2014-03-03T10:30:10","date_gmt":"2014-03-03T18:30:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.smallrvs.ca\/?page_id=751"},"modified":"2014-03-20T16:51:01","modified_gmt":"2014-03-20T23:51:01","slug":"myhome-automation","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.smallrvs.ca\/?page_id=751","title":{"rendered":"MyHome Automation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I dabble in Home Automation using <a title=\"Home Automation Software\" href=\"http:\/\/www.perceptiveautomation.com\/indigo\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">Indigo software<\/a>\u00a0on my Mac Mini and various INSTEON and ZWAVE devices.<\/p>\n<p>Home Automation is a Hobby of sorts. My real work is at <a title=\"Byte Designs Ltd.\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bytedesigns.com\" target=\"_blank\">Byte Designs Ltd.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I recently installed a Nest Thermostat. The Indigo Plugin for it was throwing some errors and since it hadn&#8217;t been looked at for a couple of years I&#8217;m dabbling to create a 2nd Gen. Plugin for Indigo.<\/p>\n<p>Have created a modified version of the original Nest Thermostat plugin and am calling it Nest Thermostat 2nd Gen as I&#8217;m using a 2nd Gen Nest.<\/p>\n<p>You&#8217;re welcome to try the plugin but keep in mind that I&#8217;m no plugin developer and I patched it for my own use but am certainly willing to share as long as you don&#8217;t mind possible rough edges.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been running it for several days without ill effects but there are absolutely no guarantees as to how it will behave in your own environment.<\/p>\n<p>The old and new can be installed at the same time but only one should be enabled. Here is what I suggest to implement after downloading and unzipping the plugin.<br \/>\n1) disable the original Nest Thermostat plugin.<br \/>\n2) install the new one by double clicking<br \/>\n3) create a new device<br \/>\n4) once all good migrate actions, triggers, etc. to new plugin.<\/p>\n<p>There is some work-in-progress re humidity settings, but those have been unsuccessful so far and have to be ignored.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.smallrvs.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/IndigoNest2.png\" rel=\"lightbox[751]\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-764 aligncenter\" alt=\"IndigoNest2\" src=\"http:\/\/www.smallrvs.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/IndigoNest2-300x138.png\" width=\"300\" height=\"138\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.smallrvs.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/IndigoNest2-300x138.png 300w, https:\/\/www.smallrvs.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/IndigoNest2.png 758w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Plugin broken due to changes made by nest.com.<br \/>\nWorking on it&#8230;.<\/p>\n ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I dabble in Home Automation using Indigo software\u00a0on my Mac Mini and various INSTEON and ZWAVE devices. Home Automation is a Hobby of sorts. My real work is at Byte Designs Ltd. I recently installed a Nest Thermostat. The Indigo Plugin for it was throwing some errors and since it hadn&#8217;t been looked at for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":6,"menu_order":5,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.smallrvs.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/751"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.smallrvs.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.smallrvs.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.smallrvs.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.smallrvs.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=751"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.smallrvs.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/751\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":771,"href":"https:\/\/www.smallrvs.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/751\/revisions\/771"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.smallrvs.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.smallrvs.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=751"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}