Other than a few settings, the pump cannot be controlled via the app. Weheat does not support this at this moment.
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A big shout out to @JvdG for providing me access to his Weheat account! Thank you!
So far so good! Very nice to have all heatpump details in Homey so I can take the next step and control it via an opentherm gateway (later this year). Havenât seen any glitches so far.
Thatâs fantastic and thanx @evdpol! I can now see it in my Homey Pro. It was great to read it, and as JvdG @JvdG already wrote, nowâs the next step to having everything under control.
If youâve created a nice flow, please let me know. Iâm also very interested in what can be done with it. I just had the WeHeat installed, so it remains to be seen how it will perform over the winter months.
Nice to have at least Some info from the Weheat in homey.
Thanks for creating this app.
So far i have created Some flows to inform myself about the status of the heatpump. Eg. Of the heat pump chenges to status legionella, sent a notification âlegionellaâ. However i have noties that in Some case it sents the app still think that the status is stand-by. I think this is a timing issue.
Question: is it possible to add a card to retrieve the actual status of the heatpump ?
So i can make an app likeâ if status changesâ then â retrieve actual statusâ Sent notification with actual statusâ
In the end I would like to mak a calculation of the actual power that is used while the status is not stand by.
So this is not reaal getint rijd of legionella. IT is just monitoring the status of the heatpump.
My problem is that there seems to be a timing issue in the app: sometimes (not Allways) if the heatpump changes from status to e.g. Legionella,I get a notification from another flow that says the heatpump status is stand-by.
@Jos_ten_Brink Thank you for the information. Our heat pump was installed two months ago, so we havenât been able to use it yet. Weâve tested it, of course, but thatâs about it. Iâd like it to be winter, so we can test it properly and see what kind of readings it produces.
If you have any advice on flow rates, please let me know.
Thanks @evdpol for creating this app! For me it is more stable then via the HA integration.
The Heatpump is not showing up in the Energy dashboard, probably beacause it does not have a meter_power capability. Any cool trick how to add the heatpump to the Energy tab?
Thanks for creating this app. I use it to monitor the Blackbird and also to control the pump of the floorheating elsewhere in the house.
I now switch that pomp on and off with the rpm of the blackbird. However there also is an additional pump controlled by the Blackbird controller. It switches that pump on and off and controls the rpm of that pump. It would be better to switch the pump of the floorheating similar to the additional pump rather than the Blackbird rpm. However, there are no triggers related to that additional pump. Would it be possible to add those as well?
There is the problem that the reported âwattage inâ, is not a real âmeasure_powerâ indicator and there is no summary into kwh used. Iâve solved this with two additional apps.
With Device Capabilities | Homey you can create a virtual device that takes the âwattage inâ from Weheat and converts it to a âmeasure_powerâ, so Homey and other apps know it is wattage used.
With Power by the Hour | Homey you can create a âPower summarizerâ, that takes the reported wattage and reports a running total kwh. This shows up in the energy dashboard.
Wattage In is not the same as Power used by the device. Wattage In is only the power used to create heat. The heatpump uses more power than just Wattage InâŚ
Apart from that, you have the powerconsumtion of the inside unit and the water pump. Donât mistake Wattage In to be the total powercinsumption of the weheat :
'Blackbird Vermogen Inâ is the reported Wattage In from the Weheat APi/App, âWeheat Stroomverbruikâ is the total powerconsumption of the outdoor unit measured by a kWh meterâŚ
Sure, but at least it answers the question how to convert the values that are available from this app, without a kWh meter, to an item that shows up in the energy dashboard.
I have a Flint instead of a Blackbird and donât measure the power consumption of the inside unit (yet). However, the difference between my P1 meter and the âwattage inâ from the Weheat app doesnât leave room for 600 watt power usage by the internal unit. Does your inside unit also have a heating element or something to explain this usage?
