Nest Thermostat plug-in
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1. Setup the nest thermostat with nest.com. (setup account)
2. Load eventghost and plugin (available in first post).
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I could do with being able to switch into eco mode rather than just heat/off. Is there anyway to do this or is it simple to add this in?
As far as I know its a fairly new mode?
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Recap? What was this about? I don't remember...I was given a warning from Nest inc
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/ ... y01eVBKeHM
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Since then, if the ambition is to be part of the IoT world, those type of requirements are just ridiculous. Unless you have a hidden agenda where the ambition is to be the one and only in IoT...
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/ ... y01eVBKeHM
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We have just put the nest in a 150 year old church and some of its abilities are lacking at best. The building is often below 9 degrees which is the minimum the schedule allows. The heating shouldnt come on unless it reaches the frost protection level of 4 degrees as it costs a fortune to heat.
What im trying to achieve is this, which is nearly possible..
Read in that days schedule from the nest -this seems to be broken as it always returns the same values

Take an hour off the earliest start time and set a schedule to turn the device on and home at that time
Add an hour to the off the final scheduled time and turn the device off and away at that time
There will also be some messing to allow for services which run past midnight. I'll also need to figure how the programming section of SchedulGhost works to allow the addition and removal of schedules on a daily basis.
Setting to on and off seems to work perfectly, getting the schedule is no so good at the moment. I dont need to store any data, i use a pi to get room temperatures (so not breaking any of nests rules, honest!)
Any help would be very much appreciated!
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In particular this link might be helpful
http://flows.nodered.org/node/node-red-contrib-nest
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/ ... y01eVBKeHM
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I will check back on my nest from time to time to see if the data structure has changed to what they show. I just hope this is not hardware version issue as that would then become futile for me to do plugin updates with different data structures to follow. My current version is 5.6-7
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Thanks for looking at this.
The nest im connecting to also has software 5.6-7 which was the one released a couple of weeks ago.
Out of interest, is the option to read the schedule working for you? When I try it reads in the first one, then for any other days it just sends the same output. I've found a workaround for the eco bit but could do with being able to read a proper schedule from the device.
thanks
Phil
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I recon this plugin has already saved us a fair few pounds as the building has dropped below 9 degrees a few times this year already, so a big thanks just for that!
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It seems to be reading the days on the right day as well.
This should let me turn the heating back on just as its needed rather than just at some point in the morning.