initial setup?

[prankousky]

Hi,

I have installed -and am using- this node-red-contrib. It works as in I can read from and send commands to my thermostats. However, there are three major problems that I am not sure how to solve:

• window status detection
  While I get the rf_addresses of my window sensors, they seem to not send a window open / closed update. Therefore, I cannot determine whether a window is currently open and control the appropriate thermostat accordingly.

This could be quick-n-dirty fixed by setting all thermostats to AUTO mode, but

• cannot set AUTO mode
  While I can send a command like {"rf_address": "<rf_address>, "degrees": 15, "mode": "AUTO"}, this command will only set degrees but not mode. Therefore, even when a window is opened, my thermostat will let node-red set it to something other than 5 degrees (which it should always be on when a window is open) and therefore, sometimes I have a window opened while the thermostat right below it is set to 18 degrees

The third one is more of a question:

• how many in/out nodes can I have? Only one each?
  I am still learning to work with node-red and therefore have some test-flows. For example, I have three different in nodes (requesting temperature etc.) so that when I try something new, it will not mess with existing flows.
  This way, I get three debug messages like Error: Maxcube not initialised. Do I need to only have one node each so they do not get in each others way when requesting (or possibly sending) data?

Thanks in advance :)

[prankousky]

I abandoned this flow because I could not get things to work, but I'd really like to use it...

Anybody got any ideas? There must be some way to include window open/close state as the maxcube itself does it too...

For example, if user sets livingroom to 23 degrees, check if window is closed. If so, switch temperature, if not wait until window has been closed.

Anybody?