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RE: Connecting to Midea MSmartHome using a PC

@fishboy25uk - a bit of progress. I have managed to add an entity called Outdoor Temperature and can get it to collect some data. The key bit of code ...

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

@fishboy25uk - we are definitely onto something. I'm running a weirdo Windows version of HA, but I managed to install midea_ac_lan manually, following...

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

@fishboy25uk - only just spotted your post. It seems we have had similar frustrating experiences using the Midea app (defo shiteware in my humble opin...

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

I saw those Bellflowsystems units and had the same thought - they look identical, apart from the colour. Sometimes the 'development' is the other way,...

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

Not getting very far with the clamp on (non-invasive) affordable flow meter. The best I have come up with is an ebay listing from China: I haven'...

3 years ago
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RE: Looking for reference sites and installer recommendations

Somehow I managed to screw up the x-axis in the second chart in the post above - here is the chart with the correct x-axis labels (can't edit the prev...

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

@batalto - they are invasive meters, and very pricey. The electricity in (in kWh) I can do from the blinking LED on my ASHP dedicated meter, the flow/...

3 years ago
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RE: Looking for reference sites and installer recommendations

Don't forget people are heat sources. If you had a number of house guests, you had a number of mobile radiators/convectors... Estimates vary as to how...

3 years ago
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RE: Looking for reference sites and installer recommendations

Empirical heat loss assessments, done of a cold design temp day, tend to get sniffed at these days, but in fact I think it may be one of the most accu...

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

Thanks @robl, that's all very helpful. I have also been googling away, and it appears there are clamp on ultrasound flow meters, which solves the inte...

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

For the record, I have just across this interesting page on flow rates, which also has a very useful flow rate calculator at the bottom for both water...

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

@robl - thanks for the details. £8 per sensor is affordable, but given more standard flow meters cost hundreds of pounds, I would want to be sure the ...

3 years ago
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