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@benson is using an esphome controller which integrates with Home Assistant. The esphome controller uses regular modbus, which is not different then f...
Check. Changing the WCC values also do not disable anything when I do that via modbus, so same what you see.
Unix / Linux guy over here, so "grep" it is instead of search in Notepad++ 🙂 The ESPHome configuration I use (and created), writes and gets data us...
That cost me quite some time to find it again. The Midea manuals, as you know, are not always that straightforward in explaining stuff, so this is wha...
@benson We also see that when changing (certain?) values using modbus which are in the 'for serviceman' menu, automated DHW is turned off. This behavi...
I am doing almost the same as you and also noticed that it always takes a few minutes before the state is set to "DHW" (e.g. 3-way-valve SV1 is flippe...
A bit of topic, but indeed chatgpt and other AI a-likes have this tendency. Imho at this point in time you should not trust the output and always veri...
@benson”Active State” reflects the current state of your heat pump. And indeed the state of the 3-way-valve SV1 is taken into account to get the state...
@benson I checked the last week of data and i must say that is pretty accurate in those days, where the Shelly measures for example 4.65, the heat pum...
The Shelly provide “Current” (amp), “Power” (watt) and “Voltage” (V) for the current state and “Total energy” (kWh) as a counter since the last reset....
I have two Shelly 1PM plus (discontinued and replaced by Shelly 1PM Gen3), which is working perfect, but if I have to start over I would have chosen t...
@benson I have to Shelly devices to measure the power usage of the indoor and outdoor unit and created virtual energy meters in Home Assistent for hea...
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