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At least we have now some Arts in our graphs - Cubism (despite yellow and cyan lines): ... Mehr anzeigen

@thetrueavatar I use ViCare on Android, Vitoguide in Browser and your interface (many thanks for it - it's just fun to use it!) connected to openHAB. Vitoguide is not very popular here, I think. Did you try it? Maybe just go to https://vitoguide.viessmann.com/ activate there the same account you use in ViCare. I have expierenced that Votoguide worked all the time while ViCare and your interface was blocked.... I think you will be able to trace Vitoguide the same as ViCare in your network. ... Mehr anzeigen

I agree that it is not very fair that Viesmann has got all the data at any time and the user is restricted to have an insight only every 15 minutes. I can already observe that everybody that wants "constant access" writes about that he is used to collect data every minute and not lower. This is the value at which the API should be oriented to be able to process all the communication. This would solve the whole problem. Restrictions would not be even needed. ... Mehr anzeigen

Hello Michael, it would be very interesting when Viesmann would publish the numbers about the traffic caused by Vitoconnect / ViCare / VitoGuide, also under historic point of view. In my opinion the traffic increased very fast caused by the non-standard usage which was not awaited by Viessmann at the beginning. The calculation in the management was made surely only based on VitoGuide and Vicare tests with a 5% reserve for the nerds. Now Viesmann has to deal with a crowd of experts that tune their home automation without using ViCare or VitoGuide because they are not useful for real automation. They are very useful for quick check or a quick adaptation beeing out of home. But not for automation. And automation is what we really want when there is a cable connected to the Viessmann device which we can access on the other end. In my case I have made a nice integratoin where the thermostates trigger the Viessmann device to work or not - independent of the heating internal program which cannot react. I can could increase the wished temperature at any thermostat (far away from the heating) which triggered via openhab / thetrueavatar-api changing mode of the heating. Without going to the cellar. Without grabbing my telephone. Whith saving a lot of money. But I am only an amateur. I would like to encourage Viessmann to consider how many people and at which level have already implemented their automation of the heating at home to get comfortable and to save money (Just check the setting-commands in the traffic.). This would not work without Optolink / Vitoconnect. And thi is great. I would further like to encourage VIessmann to consider a local access to the heating system using Vitoconnect. This would give a chance for all the high level automation implementations out there and would solve the traffic problem at Viessmann. Other wise, I think, the experts will pull the Optolink cable from Vitoconnect and connect it to a next Raspberry-Pi instead. But maybe this is the strategy of Viessmann? Best Regards Zbig PS. It would be much easier for the user if Viessmann would first introduce the API, let the people use it for their integrations and afterwards restrict the access to the server that are forseen for ViCare/Vitoguide. We are now discussing access restrictions instead of the art and state of the API....     ... Mehr anzeigen