Last seen: Aug 29, 2025
Complexity, dear boy, complexity! You'll be dancing with the three legged one eyed unicorn before you know it! Basic python plus minimalmodbus can do ...
In Midea-speak, though I have yet to even get near to do this, I had in mind tweaking the weather comp set points to achieve this: to get a 2 degree b...
All so very true... Obfuscation. Why use one line when you can use two hundred? Here's my entire hourly data extracted from minute data code, based ...
Worth mentioning that a load adjusted weather compensation curve was, and still is, one of my objectives in all this, primarily so I can set an overni...
@iancalderbank and @derek-m - I agree with both of you. This thread has unintentionally turned into something of a monster, perhaps not yet Frankenst...
@batalto - the above is a one off reading, it will be interesting to see whether the Midea figures always round downwards once I have a series of read...
@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...
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