I was browsing reddit and someone made a really cool automation.
I want to recreate this in homey but dont know how.
Automation is:
I live in a low humidity area with a mild climate. It gets up to 80-90 in the day in the summer time, but down to 50-60 at night.
I setup a temperature sensor outside(In homey this could be weather-temperature), and one in several rooms around the house, as well as a window contact sensor in those rooms.
When the outside temperature drops below the inside temperature, I get an alert to open the windows if they are closed.
If itās hotter outside than inside and the window is open, I get an alert to close the window.
Alerts are reversed in the winter (open when itās hotter outside, close when colder outside).
You only need to follow what you have written.
Flow for the summer (the months are only examples): if the temperature outside is higher than inside and the window is still open, then notification:
Maybe youāre having trouble with the logic card:
Thanks for the layout, got the basics working like this.
I made the outside temperature a variable, because iām not able to select it in the IF card.
I trigger IF when variable changes so was receiving notifications every 5 minutes because i check the variable every 5 minutes.
Due to this I added a WHEN, iām home, based on BLE beacon detection.
However, this still means that iām getting lots of notifications when iām homeā¦
Is this solvable?
Instead of reverse in winter you can also consider to link it to the inside temperature. That way you are also covered for cold summer daysā¦
Open window when its hotter outside AND temperature inside is below 20Cg
Open window when its colder outside AND temperature inside is above 20C
You can even replace the 20C setting by a virtual thermostate. So you can control when the window. Should open
(The virtual Thermostate can also handle humidity )
If I want to use the outside temperature in a card, where can I find that as a trigger or a tag? I see it in my Homey Dashboard:
but canāt locate the tag.
You have to select it when you create a flow. You can also see it in https://insights.homey.app (probably on of the last items in the list on the left)
Itās not selectable in the WHEN card (first card) only in the AND card.
The WHEN card has only the following Logica entrys to chose from:
In the A variable has changed card only your own variables are selectable.
Thatās why I created the variable as a workaround.
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