Last seen: Aug 9, 2025
@iancalderbank - I have got a bee in my bonnet (actually it is more of a hornet's nest) about HA, based on my experience, but I fully accept that othe...
@dealstriker - welcome to the forum, and to the crazy world of the Midea controller. I have my controller set up to have the DHW heating on between ...
Rather than get tied down in bitwise stuff (which most people including me find baffling) I'm sticking with string extraction for now. I already hav...
@majordennisbloodnok - all good points, as ever. I think part of the problem, perhaps the main problem, is that I made an early decision to present al...
More comedy cr@p from HA: how do I run my python modbus script on the mini PC given HA's control freakery over what you can and can't do? Apparently...
@derek-m - just realised I could set a higher tank set temp and override the timer to get the hot water heating to come on, which it did, confirmed by...
@derek-m - I've just run the code with on_off = instrument.read_register(129, 0) and got this as the binary output: 2023-03-20T18:33:26,10000001...
@iancalderbank - thanks again for the clarifications, others will no doubt benefit too. Brief summary: DO use a reserved IP address set in your rout...
@derek-m - I've just realised that some of the modbus tables look almost the same but they are not. The manual I have has this for register address 0:...
Thanks for reminding me, that is what I did. I recall also having a moan about the fact that the HA static ip address documentations totally fails to ...
Thanks for your comments, much appreciated. I did in fact go though IP addresses at various points, on the assumption (this time perhaps OK!) that beg...
There's quite a lot not to like about this chart, but still worth posting as proof of concept. I've had the python code running over three hours, logg...
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