Rebuilding the home efficiency card
Added 2018-10-30 14:01:00 +0000 UTCBack when I first built beestat I decided I needed something that made it unique. After all, ecobee provided all of the same data I did. The only thing I was doing was making it a bit more convenient to view that data. So, on a whim, I threw together the Temperature Profile card. It took me a couple hours to knock out the algorithm and the same to build the GUI.
This card almost got the boot for beestat 1.2 as it wasn't up to my standards. The only reason it gets to stay is because there are a few people who actually use it and have asked questions about how it works. Since I wasn't happy with the quality of this card I decided to make a few small improvements prior to overhauling it entirely in 1.3.
On the surface the graph looks worlds better. I'm no longer stuck with the purple color, I switched the focus to the trendline, and I added some color to give a more intuitive visualization of when the home is getting warmer vs getting colder. I also decided to throw in an efficiency score and percentile. The score is basically just the inverse of the trendline slope (so a higher score is better). The percentile is how efficient your home is compared to all of the other data I have in beestat.
For now there's no other fancy logic. I don't compare to homes similar to yours or handle multiple zones well, but these are things I'll be tackling in the next version. More on that to come as I begin to plan that out.
