Last seen: Sep 8, 2025
This is one of the many hurdles, too much choice, making it very difficult to decide which one to go with. Homely, Home Assistant, Domoticz, emonCMS, ...
Hugh, Midea go even further, they publish the modbus register in the Operation Manual that comes with the wired controller. But what they don't do is ...
Despite what I said earlier, there is still one thing that bothers me. Consider boiling and then simmering a saucepan of water: to get the water to bo...
@oswiu - I've got a lot to learn. I come from the Morris Minor era of electrical engineering, where the most complex thing I had to do was spray WD40 ...
@oswiu - interesting, all gist to the mill. Here are some screen grabs of some things I have come across. From a Midea M-Thermal 'consumer' brochure...
Yes, all the stuff I have found is for Midea AC units, but I reason they might be very similar. I also tried using midea-discover (after pip instal...
Indeed, I have contributed to these other discussions. There is no doubt the data is there, and it also seems equally beyond doubt that the manufact...
Exactly, this is the problem I have, and it happens even with a small setback to say 16 degrees, but that has the effect of turning the heat pump off ...
Very interesting Kev. There has always been a lot of smoke and mirrors on this subject, extra energy need to raise rather than maintain temperature et...
@batalto - I have been looking at the Midea controller 'Operation Manual' (the small ~4in x 4in white booklet with the QR codes on the front) that cam...
And of course it doesn't need electricity to run, very useful in power cuts. I do have an inglenook, but it has an open fire on fire dogs with a large...
@allyfish - thanks for clarifying. I think the important point is that marginal units, and even some not so marginal units, will struggle in colder we...
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