Building generic flows for use in multiple rooms

Questions & Help
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Been lurking for a little while, searching and reading what I could, but haven’t been able to figure out how easy it will be to accomplish.

My situation is a radiant heating and cooling with 32 independent zones. Each room is using a thermostat which controls one or more zones on a manifold. I would like to recreate that functionality which includes most rooms having in-room control of the temperature. Oh, and I need to do it wirelessly.

Since there aren’t any true wireless thermostats out there, I’m likely going to be using cheapo tablets or something for the in room control and linked sensors for humidity and temp.

What I’m failing to see is if I can write generic flows using naming conventions that would be parse-able. Variables for a room setting desired temp and acting on that local variable to activate the manifold actuator. Alternately, can something generic be written to generate unique flows and have the flows imported into the system.

Having to rinse repeat 32 times is a nightmare and knowing me, be rife with varying typos with each replication process.

Thanks in advance for the help.

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I’ve used ChatGBT to modify existing flows to adapt to new situations. Also had it generate new logic variables and change existing ones to match a naming convention. Some trial and error, but AI is getting better about doing the tedious work for us!

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My first idea would be to use Homeyscript with arguments, with a strict naming convention for devices. ChatGPT can help writing advanced Homeyscript files.

Don’t know if that’s enough for your use case.