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Topics: 17 / Replies: 2125
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RE: A Beginner's Guide to ASHP Monitoring

@iancalderbank and @derek-m - I agree with both of you. This thread has unintentionally turned into something of a monster, perhaps not yet Frankenst...

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

@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...

2 years ago
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RE: A Beginner's Guide to ASHP Monitoring

@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...

2 years ago
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RE: Midea M-thermal Mono ASHP - setting Schedule / Timer

@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 ...

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

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...

2 years ago
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RE: A Beginner's Guide to ASHP Monitoring

@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...

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

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...

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

@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...

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

@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...

2 years ago
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RE: A Beginner's Guide to ASHP Monitoring

@iancalderbank - thanks again for the clarifications, others will no doubt benefit too. Brief summary: DO use a reserved IP address set in your rout...

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

@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:...

2 years ago
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RE: A Beginner's Guide to ASHP Monitoring

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 ...

2 years ago
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