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RE: Connecting to Midea MSmartHome using a PC

It does seems very possible it is an end of data indicator, given most of the message after it is made up of zeros, like this: "04010000272c00006911...

2 years ago
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RE: Connecting to Midea MSmartHome using a PC

Well done! Virtual machines are not easy from what I gather, which echoes my own experience, things like network access via the host's hardware being ...

2 years ago
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RE: Connecting to Midea MSmartHome using a PC

@derek-m - I've worked out a way of getting the data out of the log files, here's a snapshot (actual file will be csv): As you can see, most of th...

2 years ago
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RE: Vaillant Arotherm yeild and COP readings

@murchison2003 - I don't doubt your observations on what you have spent at all, I am just trying to highlight the fact that it is often far from clear...

2 years ago
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RE: Connecting to Midea MSmartHome using a PC

Yes, I have that booklet as well, the thing is the modbus mappings don't correspond with the midea_ac_lan mappings, as in they don't have the same add...

2 years ago
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RE: Vaillant Arotherm yeild and COP readings

Again, the numbers (not you!) don't make sense. 3000 litres is very roughly 30,000 kWh. You say at the top of this page, you are currently using appro...

2 years ago
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RE: Vaillant Arotherm yeild and COP readings

I do, but they either use different fuels (one still uses coal!) or heat their homes differently (different patterns and or warmth levels or main boil...

2 years ago
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RE: Connecting to Midea MSmartHome using a PC

Notify1 (elif self._message_type == MessageType.notify1 and self._body_type == 0x04: at bottom of C3\message.py) was in the original code from git hub...

2 years ago
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RE: Vaillant Arotherm yeild and COP readings

@bristoljoe - it is completely crazy, just doesn't make any sense. I have an old leaky high heat loss building, listed so not easy to improve this sid...

2 years ago
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RE: Connecting to Midea MSmartHome using a PC

@derek-m - it's OK, I've already done them, I recall sometime in the past I missed something out in one of the other files, didn't crash the code, but...

2 years ago
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RE: Connecting to Midea MSmartHome using a PC

@derek-m - thanks. I think the midea_devices.py and C3\device.py files will also need corresponding additions for the mods to work. Will add them and ...

2 years ago
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RE: Vaillant Arotherm yeild and COP readings

@bristoljoe - the old oil system and the new heat pump system both did and do the same work, heating and DHW. The heat pump has only about 1.5m of ext...

2 years ago
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