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RE: Connecting Home Assistant to a Midea Heat Pump

Thanks, I will think about it, but first thoughts are that it will sit quite comfortably in the Beginner's Guide thread, and the thread provides conte...

3 years ago
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Air Source Heat Pumps (ASHPs)
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RE: Connecting Home Assistant to a Midea Heat Pump

Thank you! After an hour's coding in python at my very basic level I can get this on screen (writing it to a file is not a problem): datetime,RWT,...

3 years ago
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Air Source Heat Pumps (ASHPs)
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RE: A Beginner's Guide to ASHP Monitoring

@editor - even just thinking about it makes me go weak at the knees. But there is some good news in the pipeline. This morning I managed to get a wire...

3 years ago
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Air Source Heat Pumps (ASHPs)
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RE: Connecting Home Assistant to a Midea Heat Pump

Bingo! The Eagle has Landed! I finally connected up the RS-485 wiring this morning, fiddly but only took a couple of hours if that from start to fi...

3 years ago
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Air Source Heat Pumps (ASHPs)
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RE: A Beginner's Guide to ASHP Monitoring

And in HA's case, an open window to jump out of. I am absolutely not having a go at you, and I do understand your point, but the problem is my previou...

3 years ago
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Air Source Heat Pumps (ASHPs)
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RE: Say hello and introduce yourself

@dockray - thanks, that is very kind of you.

3 years ago
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Introductions, Forum Rules & Updates
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RE: Connecting Home Assistant to a Midea Heat Pump

@transparent - that Alpha Wire also appears to be alpha priced, £293.41 for a 100ft (30m) spool. The cat 5e FTP cable I got on ebay cost £7.98 for 20 ...

3 years ago
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Air Source Heat Pumps (ASHPs)
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RE: Connecting Home Assistant to a Midea Heat Pump

@derek-m - reading up on Russell's paradox (I am by nature a reader rather than a viewer), I came across this: Russell's paradox becomes: let y = {x...

3 years ago
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Air Source Heat Pumps (ASHPs)
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RE: A Beginner's Guide to ASHP Monitoring

@william1066 I am guilty perhaps of slightly over egging the title by calling it a fatal flaw, perhaps more accurate to say it went into a coma, but n...

3 years ago
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Air Source Heat Pumps (ASHPs)
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RE: Connecting Home Assistant to a Midea Heat Pump

@transparent - thanks again, points noted. Two new questions (sorry!): (a) the cable is a FTP Cat 5e cable, with four twisted sheathed pairs, one ba...

3 years ago
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Air Source Heat Pumps (ASHPs)
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RE: Connecting Home Assistant to a Midea Heat Pump

@transparent - thanks very much for the tips, all understood. Just one question: Is that the computer/RS-485 to USB adaptor end, or the wired cont...

3 years ago
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Air Source Heat Pumps (ASHPs)
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RE: Say hello and introduce yourself

That's good news, and weather comp is indeed the way to go. What is remarkable is how many people come to this forum not using weather comp, and in so...

3 years ago
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