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Over the last few weeks I’ve done a bit more testing with the SV1 entity which captures the port valve position, and trying to split the energy usage ...
Yep- already done that....nothing novel as such but some general feedback about working well and stable IAT being the crucial performance metric. It w...
@papahuhu I just use chatgbt 😆 In all seriousness it is good at yaml code which is what is needed for home assistant to set up my various C...
A very reasonable appraisal of homely. Don't get me wrong- I agree it has it's place and it isnt a bad product, as long as customers are not mis-sol...
Is that what homely told you, or what your installers told you? Anyway, that it a pain that following those steps hasn't worked for you. Perhaps th...
That's the point though isn't it. You don't necessarily know when you are going to need the data to diagnose a fault, or indeed understand how (or if)...
@grantmethestrength looks neat 🙂 . I haven't really delved into blueprints to be honest so been reading up on them a bit after you posted. Wha...
That is my understanding as well that the installer selects which ones get audited, or certainly have an influence over it. This is what our installer...
To update on this, following a bit more testing and tweaking over the last couple of months... I've simplified the WCC setting automations which adj...
None of us were wrong about the method of access and toodles does not have any special access set up. Many homely customers who follow the same steps ...
There is an easy way to integrate a midea with home assistant. See here if of interest. This evening I've actually added a couple of new monitoring ...
COP of 3 perhaps a little low and you say that you don't heat unused rooms. Thus there's a few factors there which might lead to an under estimate of ...
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