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My Heat Pump Installation – Part 3
After almost 12 months since I started digging that god forsaken trench, my heat pump was finally commissioned! Alex, from Solaris Energy, drove all the way up from Kent, on a cloudy Tuesday morning, to finally turn on my (slightly rusty) Kronoterm Adapt. In this post, I want to outline… Read ⇢
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Modbus ESP32 Adapter – Testing the board
After ironing out the issues with my Modbus ESP32 Adapter board, the next stage was to test it worked. When testing stuff like this, I find it helps to have a known *working* reference. To implement this, I put together a simple test. First, I used a YP-05 USB to… Read ⇢
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My Heat Pump Installation – Part 2
My Kronoterm Adapt ASHP is almost installed. In this post, the 2nd part, I continue the (long) journey of getting to this point. In My Heat Pump Installation – Part 1, I covered the trench, insulated pipes, concrete base and the heat pump itself. In this post, I’ll cover the plant… Read ⇢
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My Heat Pump Installation – Part 1
My Kronoterm Adapt ASHP is almost installed. In this post, I run through the (long) journey of getting to this point. Planning I knew for a long time that I wanted to get an ASHP installed. When I move to the West Midlands back in 2021, I discussed the idea… Read ⇢
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ModBus ESP32 Adapter – A tiny disaster (but it works!)
In addition to receiving my latest Dual Temperature Sensor boards from PCBWay, I also ordered a few of my Modbus ESP32 adapter boards. I was short a 210Ω resistor, but I soldered it all up anyway. Never hurts to practice. The first objective was getting the ESP32-C6 talking over USB… Read ⇢
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Matter Dual Temperature Sensor – Reading Battery Level
After my success with my MBus adapter PCB, I finally got the push I needed to finish the next version of Dual Temperature Sensor. I sent it off to PCBWay for manufacture! This version had two important changes: In this previous post, I added the Power Source cluster to my… Read ⇢
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Automatic delay of my SmartThings Samsung Washing Machine – pt 2
This post follows on from part 1, where I successfully connected an ESP32 to the Samsung SmartThings API In this post, I add explore how I could use the API to delay the start of my washing machine automatically. Once I understand how that works, I can implement something using… Read ⇢
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MBus ESP32 Adapter – First MBus test
With my Revision F boards all soldered up and debugged, I was ready to make my first MBus communication attempt! In this post, I’ll run through the process. Issues with Revision F Before diving into the test, I thought it might be helpful if I gave a quick through some… Read ⇢
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MBus ESP32 Adapter Update – Voltage Booster now works!
This is a short update on the MBus ESP32 adapter I’m building. I wrote a long post about it over here, which I suggest you read first to give you some context. When I designed the original circuit, I made two mistakes in the schematic. Each mistake impacted a different… Read ⇢
