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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...

3 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...

3 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 ...

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

But why not go for a generic approach, that can be adapted where necessary for manufacturer quirks and irritations? As long as you have a physical mod...

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

@derek-m - thanks, brilliant clear explanation. Especially as I still have an analogue CRT TV! Looks right and works well in an old leaky listed build...

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

Not so long ago a likened the hardware and RS-485 to the Morse keypads and telegraph wires in an old telegraph system and modbus to the Morse code sen...

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

@transparent - it's probably just another case of bad manual language. I thought modbus 'functions' were used to tell it what to do eg 03 means 'read ...

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

This is why I am now trying to be as generic as possible in what I do, the idea is to have a generic approach that can be used either as it is or with...

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

This is rather too cryptic for me, how, for example, would I 'solve the "sample and hold" behaviour of the heat pump interface'? I know you are replyi...

3 years ago
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RE: Rate the quality of your heat pump design and installation

I am pretty sure this is the company I had to fire to get my heat pump installed by another installer. They were the LA grant peoples' 'preferred inst...

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

@filipe - it does sound like an odd design/system. 12kW heat loss, 22 rads, that's give or take 500W on average output for each rad which even at ASHP...

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

We continue to live in interesting times. Some energy in results in kWh from the last 2 hour periods: PS I see forum clock is still on GMT. Th...

3 years ago
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