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RE: 12kW Samsung gen 6 short cycling

I wonder what peoples' views are on using a volumiser to reduce cycling. The idea as I understand it is that by increasing the circulating volume (whi...

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

More Home Assistant sh!te - why you really need Home Assistant like you need a hole in the head. After being nagged, I manually updated the HA core/OS...

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

Indeed. HACS is a Right Royal PITA, bloated and painful to use. Most HA add-ons (integration is another bit of HA comedy jargon) can be installed manu...

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

@cashback - well spotted, thanks! It is also an example of why it is a good idea to post code so others can inspect it! It looks as though the colle...

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

All he has done is use the modbus register address tables, and then wrapped it in that complex code. For example, he uses this to get the ambient temp...

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

@gorm - thanks very much for posting the link. Following it, I see it needs 462 lines of not easy to read or maintain code to access a Midea clone ove...

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

Yes, that all makes sense, it was how I had HA calculate kWh and COPs using statistics and templates. For example, to calculate the 24 hour trailing C...

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

Thanks, but link goes to 404 - any possibility you could re-post a correct link? @cashback - this interestingly shows what I have suspected, longe...

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

Perhaps try plotting the TF Module Temperature over time, and with other variables, to see if any pattern emerges? Also worth having a look at the man...

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

@cashback - impressive work. Time will tell whether you end up with a warm feeling on the inside or a red face on the outside ;-). One thing I am p...

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

I have been having another crack at my COP calcs, given that some of the trailing 60 minute values look suspiciously high at over 4 and sometimes even...

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

Ah, that makes it all clear. Thanks very much. I thought you had to send a write request before each read request, which did seem odd, but a one time ...

2 years ago
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