MMM-Nest

[pugsly]

Any chance on integrating the nest protect smoke detectors?

[mochman]

@pugsly Sure. What kind of info would you be looking for on it? From what I see on the API, we can read CO Alarm State, Smoke Alarm State, Battery Health, and some other things people probably don’t want to see.

What I’m thinking right now is putting a colored ring (like the one on the smoke detector) around the thermostat circle to indicate good, warning, or emergency status. Any ideas?

[pugsly]

Well, I have 3 of them so not sure how to display but I do like the colored ring based on status. There are also alerts that could be displayed as well.

[mochman]

I made a separate branch if you want to check it out. I’ll merge it after I run some more tests.
https://github.com/mochman/MMM-Nest/tree/protect

You are going to have to edit your Nest developer settings to allow read access to the “protect” in order for this to work. When you do that, you’ll need to run getToken.sh again to get a new token.

I gave you the option to use a visual representation, or a list representation. If you use visual, you have the choice to display your nest, protect, or both together.

Here are some of the ways it displays to you.

I can’t find the “Smoke is clearing” data or stuff like that, so it just shows if there is an alarm for smoke or carbon monoxide, or if your battery is low.

Please take a look and tell me what you think.

[alberttwong]

So I’m making modifications to support Nest Cams. The only catch is that the cameras have to be public. I can pull the calls and writing up a UI. It’s in my own github https://github.com/alberttwong/MMM-Nest and plan to do a PR soon.

[mochman]

@alberttwong That’s great! I don’t have a drop cam so I’m not really sure what information people would want to get from them.

[alberttwong]

So there seems to be some gotchas. Basically, the Nest API doesn’t help yet. In the meantime, you can get the Nest Camera working through MMM-iFrame with caveats (https://github.com/alberttwong/MMM-iFrame).

[caseyrcoughlin]

New here, about to start making mine. Have to wait until my raspberry pi gets here in a few days though. The module looks great, however, I was wondering if it is possible to add the function to adjust the temperature on it. Up/down arrows, change from A/C to heat, switch it off and so on.

Thanks! Hopefully I’ll have some information to provide soon.

[mochman]

@caseyrcoughlin It might be possible, but how would someone select the up/down arrows, etc? Are you setting up a touch screen mirror?

[caseyrcoughlin]

@mochman Yes, it’ll be a touch screen. Adding a touchfoil to it. I’m still VERY new at this and haven’t had a chance to even play around with anything so most of it is out of context for me right now but I know it’s a feature I’d like to see incorporated. I’ll start tinkering with it myself soon hopefully.

[pyrosmiley]

Module works quite well for me as installed, but I do have one thing I can’t seem to puzzle out.

I may well be missing something - and my apologies if so - but I can’t seem to find it based on everything I’ve read. Is there a way to display multiple thermostats in a single row with a visual display? Right now I’ve enabled both by adding separate instances in the config, which works just fine to make them stack on top of each other, but it looks kinda silly having the two circles on top of each other with a big space to the side.

I’m assuming there’s some form of custom CSS magic involved, but I’m new to that and can’t seem to get a single module instance to display both thermostats in the first place.

Either way, thanks so much!!

[mochman]

@pyrosmiley No, sorry. You’re doing it the way I would have recommended. If you want to throw a feature request on the githuib page, I’d be more than happy to try and figure something out.

[pyrosmiley]

@mochman Okay! I put up a request right here for it, and tossed up a picture for reference.

Really appreciate you checking this out for me, what you have is already great

[onetwankyfive]

@pyrosmiley In the mean time, this might work for you.

I did some dirty css to make this work with MMM-Tools

Try adding this to your custom.css filers and make MMM-Tools your first MMM-Nest instance

.MMM-Nest {
margin-top : -190px;
margin-left:350px;
}

.MMM-Tools {
width : 320px;
}

you might need to make it margin-right if you are calling it on the right hand side… I’m am terrible at CSS

[pyrosmiley]

@onetwankyfive Quick update:
I basically took your advice to use crazy negative CSS margins and it worked beautifully! I’m not actually sure how to address only one instance of a Thing in CSS so what I ended up doing was to clone the module into Nest2, and then used the CSS to bump that up next to the original. Sadly the headers don’t display leading spaces so I can’t really fix the alignment of the second instance but beyond that it looks pretty great!

Not sure if anyone else wanted to do this and wasn’t sure how, but in case there is someone: The duplicated Nest2 module can be found linked above. I’ll try my best to keep it up-to-date with the original, but in case I haven’t gotten to it yet it should be easy to do yourself – all I did was add a 2 next to every instance of the word Nest. Then I just added the following to Nest2.css, but you can even just add it to your custom CSS:

.MMM-Nest2 {
  margin-top: -211px;
  margin-bottom: 65px;
  margin-left: 220px;
}

That theoretically should automatically line it up right? It looks a little janky when the MM app is loading but it all works out fine for me. It also is set to use a different font but I made sure to have it fall back on Roboto.

For anyone smarter/better at computer than me, if there’s a way to achieve this without a whole forked module, let me know! Simpler is better!

[eviljin]

After ran the getToken.sh, I got multiple thermostats detected. How do I add the 3 thermostats I have to the config.js?

Thanks

[mochman]

Please use these steps. If you have any questions after that, I’ll be happy to answer.