markf

That’s exactly what I’m looking for. I’ll ask my dealer. Thank you!

I'm trying to work out a way to change the LED color on my switches depending on if the alarm is armed or not. I'd love for the LED of the current state of the light (on or off, upper or lower LED) to be red if it's armed and go back to normal (blue, in my case) if the alarm is disarmed. At first I thought about conditionals based on the alarm state. In programming I went to the partition and said: when the partition state changes, if the partition is armed, change all the LEDs to Red. If it is disarmed, turn all the LEDs off. That won't work since I don't want all the LEDs red, just the upper or lower depending on if the light is on or off, and I don't want all of them off on disarm, I just want whatever one is active to go back to normal. I guess I could then tell it to check if the light is on or off and change the appropriate LED to red but that seems overly complicated and I'm not how to tell it to go back to normal on disarm, unless I just need to specify to check if it's on or off and change the appropriate LED to blue. I thought about making a variable that was true if armed and false if disarmed but I'm just not sure how to apply it to changing the colors for true and back to normal for false. I'm also not sure how, once I get this worked out, how to apply it to all of the switches or if I just need to go one by one. FYI, I'm just an end user here who likes to do things myself in Composer HE rather than call the dealer for everything little thing. Thanks in advance.

I'm on 18.

Anyone else find their Ecobee thermostats not responding and having to request a new PIN and reauthorize? The C4 iPhone app says I can request a new PIN on the Extras screen but I don't seem to have that option there. I end up having to open Composer HE and generate a PIN there and then log into my Ecobee account to authorize the app. It seems to happen to me pretty frequently. I imagine this is an Ecobee issue but I thought I would see if anyone here has seen this behavior and had any suggestions. Thanks.

@DLite I switched to your way, using the numeric variable, and things work flawlessly. It was way simpler and more elegant than all of my "ifs" and "ors." Count goes up when things open, down when they close, opening starts the timer, HVAC goes off when it expires, timer stops when everything is closed and HVAC goes back to auto. Thanks again.

Thanks, DLite. It sounds like we're doing similar things. I appreciate the response. That is really helpful.

My goal is to make it so that if a window or door is opened for longer than 5 minutes that the HVAC goes to off and then when everything is closed the HVAC goes back to auto. Here's what I did: When the window opens set the "window open" variable to true. When the "window open" variable changes if it is true then start the "window open" timer, otherwise set HVAC to auto When the "window open" timer expires, if window 1 is open, or if window 2 is open or if window 3 is open etc. set HVAC to off, otherwise stop the "window open" timer This seems to work most of the time but there are some situations where it doesn't. For what it's worth, this seems to work well downstairs where the HVAC is a Nest but upstairs where I have an Ecobee it seems little inconsistent. Has anyone else come up with a better way to implement something like this? Do you see any obvious issues with what I've done? Thanks for the help.