Away mode end

[KEM]

I've created a new post as the one called "Away Mode - Wiser App" is marked solved when it isn't https://community.se.com/t5/Schneider-Electric-Wiser-Forum/Away-Mode-Wiser-App/m-p/395233#M112

I echo the request included in that post that it would be useful to be able to specify an end date and time for Away mode. I made a request to Drayton/Schneider several years ago and was told that it was a feature that they would consider but as yet it appears to have still not been implemented.

It always bothers me that if we go away and the system loses connection to the internet (as happens now and again) or I have no access to the internet or I simply forget then the system remains in Away Mode until I can manually turn it off.

[PhilHornby]

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@KEM wrote:

I echo the request included in that post that it would be useful to be able to specify an end date and time for Away mode. I made a request to Drayton/Schneider several years ago and was told that it was a feature that they would consider but as yet it appears to have still not been implemented.

Ditto.

Interestingly, if you're that way inclined, you can implement this functionality yourself - using the local (undocumented) API. 

It turns out that the "Boost" that the App. can request, can be to any temperature (including downwards) and (seemingly) for any no. of minutes. So, you can 'boost' all your rooms to 5°C for 10080 minutes (one week), if you're so inclined! 🙄 

The requested time shows up in the returned API Room data, but I haven't tested it, for real, beyond eight hours or so.

(What I'm saying, is that it would be fairly trivial for Drayton/Schneider to implement in the app., if they wanted to. They could abandon the current - slightly weird - Away Mode concept at the same time...)

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[KEM]

Thanks for taking the time to reply.

I thought that the information should be there and feel that it must be something relatively easy to implement so I have no idea why Wiser don't seem to want to include it. I'd hoped that the updated app might include the functionality to specify the end time for Away mode but sadly not.

[BenB]

Plus one - this would be a really useful improvement

[BenB]

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@PhilHornby wrote:

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Interestingly, if you're that way inclined, you can implement this functionality yourself - using the local (undocumented) API. 

I'm that way inclined. Please can you point me to some resources to get started?

[PhilHornby]

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@BenB wrote:

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I'm that way inclined. Please can you point me to some resources to get started?

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I started here: https://it.knightnet.org.uk/kb/nr-qa/drayton-wiser-heating-control 

There are many Wiser interface projects on github.com, though many of them are interfaces to existing Home Automation systems.

(Python code here and C# here  for example.)

The starting point is to press the "Setup" button on the HubR, so that it creates an SSID (Wiser_xxx) to which you connect. Then access http://w.x.y.z/secret  to obtain the 128-byte authentication string that has to be sent with every request. (The HubR can be returned to normal mode, once this 'secret' has been obtained).

To use this file with Curl, create a file to hold this 'secret', in the following format:

Content-Type: application/json
SECRET:<< secret returned from earlier call goes here >>

Then, something simple like :

curl -s -H @HeaderSecret.txt http://w.x.y.z/data/v2/domain/ -o OutFile

will return some information about the running system.

curl -X PATCH -d "{\"durationMinutes\":10080,\"type\": \"Manual\",\"SetPoint\":130}"  -H @HeaderSecret.txt http://w.x.y.z/data/v2/domain/Room/3/RequestOverride/

would set Room "3" to 13.0°C for one week (I think!). 

Of course, in the above example "Room 3" is specific to your system (the 3rd room you defined). Once ascertained (by looking in the data returned from previous call), you can cautiously hard-code it - with the caveat that you may change it, if you make further changes to your setup. The Wiser App parses the returned data and does a match on the returned "Room":[ "Name":...]" strings, to dynamically find the room number. A bit of a pain!

I've been using the "/v2" interface, which I found by reverse-engineering the Wiser Home app. (I used Packet Capture on a tablet, which pretends to be a VPN, so the device doesn't need to be rooted.)

(If there is anyone from Schneider here, I will probably be ejected from the forum at this point 😀 )

[BenB]

Great info, thanks

[DaveP]

That only works you know. I did have to run CMD, as Powershell doesn't like it.
That said, once I'd returned something I put it in a .bat file and ran it from File Explorer.
Good work

[PhilHornby]

If you're into Powershell, you could use some of its built-in functionality (as per Julian Knight's examples), that can help to communicate with the Hubᴿ. Personally, I only use Powershell when I find some magic 'how-to' spell that requires it, to fix a specific Windows issue 🙁.