[mh] Setpoints -- heating and cooling?

[H P. <hp...@gm...>]

Further to Garry’s email, I’ve got the last Homebridge category ‘Thermostats’ roughly working. So ‘Siri, set the main thermostat to 22 degrees’ will trigger a MH action.

Right now that action will trigger a subroutine in a common code module. Since I have a venstar and nest, I’ve managed to get those working. Should be straightforward to connect other thermostats.

However, here’s my question. ‘Set the main thermostat to 22 degrees’ can mean either setting a heating or cooling setpoint. The nest has a ‘target temperature’ that should work, and for the venstars, I check if they are set to heating mode (then use a heat setpoint) or cooling / auto mode (then use a cool setpoint).

The insteon thermostats have heating and cooling setpoint routines.

Anyone have any suggestions or logic that might make sense? I thought maybe if it’s june - sept, then assume a cooling setpoint, however this only works for us northern latitude folks. This could be a config_param setting, but that seams cumbersome. Maybe based on outside temps, but what should the range be?

Any ideas or suggestions?