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RE: Rethinking the mindset for mass retrofit - a provocative idea

I got an unsolicited email from my energy supplier (EDF) today: "Looking to transform your home heating? It's time to say hello to heat pumps...". Ano...

2 years ago
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RE: Connecting Home Assistant to a Midea Heat Pump

@william1066 - there's no need to take it personally and in any event the last line you quote wasn't aimed at you. I remember writing it after reading...

2 years ago
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RE: Connecting Home Assistant to a Midea Heat Pump

@filipe - the history has determined how I have got to where I am. I started out thinking no point in re-inventing the wheel if someone has done it be...

2 years ago
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RE: Samsung ASHP scheduling help

I am sure they are different in detail, but I think the general principle that human settable parameters that are generally (ie write method - App, LA...

2 years ago
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RE: Connecting Home Assistant to a Midea Heat Pump

We're going to have to agree to disagree here. I do not agree that something given away for free is somehow above criticism (slander is the wrong word...

2 years ago
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RE: Connecting Home Assistant to a Midea Heat Pump

@william1066 - I am perfectly aware of the Unix epoch and similar date systems used for example in spreadsheets, but they are machine friendly, not hu...

2 years ago
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RE: Adventures in DIY Smart Thermostating

Rest assured I will, but don't hold your breath, it will probably be next autumn when the days start getting cooler again before I do this in earnest,...

2 years ago
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RE: Samsung ASHP scheduling help

Different manufacturer I know, but this is what I did. My earlier HA/LAN trials (in more ways than one) primed me to expect trouble but in practice th...

2 years ago
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RE: Connecting Home Assistant to a Midea Heat Pump

@william1066 - of course I am 'sitting on the shoulders of other' and I have never denied it, I always say what libraries etc I am using, minimalmodbu...

2 years ago
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RE: Adventures in DIY Smart Thermostating

@scrchngwsl - very interesting, and thanks for writing it up in so much detail. A couple of thoughts: (a) at the end of the day, there is really onl...

2 years ago
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RE: Connecting Home Assistant to a Midea Heat Pump

Absolutely! One is complex and obscure, full of endless indents meaningless to man, the other is simple and transparent. That is the whole point!

2 years ago
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RE: 12kW Samsung gen 6 short cycling

Pretty much par for the course, though my installer was better, he not only suggested the volumiser in the first place when I mentioned the short cycl...

2 years ago
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