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RE: Connecting to Midea MSmartHome using a PC

Exactly, we don't know what goes on inside the box, in particular how the controller works out power in and power out. As you say, what is/isn't inclu...

3 years ago
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Air Source Heat Pumps (ASHPs)
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RE: Connecting to Midea MSmartHome using a PC

Scene: The Apprentice Boardroom, Week 3. The candidates have had to design an app to monitor their heat pumps. Midea have managed to smuggle one of th...

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

@william1066 - I have already run smartctl on the disk, see previous post at 12/02/2023 5:05 pm, 100% pass, and total lifetime hours confirms disk was...

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

I've just used a spreadsheet to calculate the daily COP from the recovered data, and made a chart: Credible (see below), so much easier than using...

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

The HA mini PC is behind the router firewall, which I think should should keep nasties out, and I only have access to it via a local IP address (192.1...

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

That will certainly cure any insomnia! I have now run SMART reports using a Win GUI for smartctl on a bootable Win PE USB stick on the HA OS drive a...

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

This very quick and dirty chart shows the data is still present in the corrupt database. Procedure: open corrupt database in sqlite database browser, ...

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

I think it is generally well known on here that I am no fan of Headroom Heat Pumps because they refuse to talk to us mere punters. We put the food on ...

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

Welcome to the forum. Yes, agree, both I and @batalto have long suspected these figures may not be as accurate as they appear eg how can the app repor...

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

@william1066 - I am comfortable with sqlite, have used it on a number of occasions, and by used I include using it at a command line/sql level. I know...

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

I really do appreciate your input, and will reply to the rest of your post in a moment, but I want to give a typical example of a bottomless HA rabbit...

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

No need to apologise, I never mind people being direct ie speaking plain (rudeness and worse is another matter). I'm still thinking this through. The ...

3 years ago
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