I did just bought some Adax heaters because it did look like it had power meter and was integrated with Homey Energy in the last update. It also was possible to connect them to Tibber (As is Mill).
Was disappointed that you can not integrate them in Homey (To see consumption in Energy or control from for example Dashboard) and Tibber (to have them run by electrical prices) in the same time. This is possible with for example Nibe and Easee. You have to choose so I choose Homey and planed to build my own āsmart controlā-flow for electrical prices.
Then I discovered that it just calculates 1000W all the time and not measure the real consumption.
And it looks like you have made this in the same way with Mill right? According to Adax it always runs on full effect until its 4 degrees to set temperature, then it runs 2 minutes on/off cycles to keep that temperature. If this is close enough to actual consumption is something that I now will test for a few days with Shelly power meter.
I can report that the solution to calculate 1000W all the time (or any watt) is very precise for my Adax. And I think that you use the same solution for Mill.
Thanks for the follow-up. I did use a formula to calculated the energy based on the current power value, which is reported by the API. Unsure if that value gets adjusted by the heater automatically though.
Otherwise, the accumulated power used seems to be slightly higher than the value reported by power meter placed in front of the heater. Iām using Shelly to measure the power usage in my test set-up.
Please, take a look at the code in Mill Heating GitHub repository here: https://github.com/ivo-i/Mill-Heating/tree/master/drivers/mill-v2
Note, that the energy calculating feature has been applied to Mill v2 driver only. Also, it should work automatically after an update.
Since this code has been working fine so far, I will push it in production this week.
Let me know if any issues should ocure.
Cheers,
Would it be possible to add the rooms as options when adding devices using the Mill v2 option? If I want to add rooms I need to use the original Mill (v1) option.
i just saw this option in the app as well. it does warm that the official app cannot be used anymore (not an issue for me), but thus only want to do that if this app can then add them, or generic through homey
Switch the devices to individual devices, not in a room. I would suggest switching the device itself to a local integration instead of the cloud&local.
Best regards,
I canāt find much inforfmation about the āset maximum powerā feature.
Iām actually looking to put as much energy as possible from my solar panels into the heater. So it would be perfect if I could set the power per 100W or something.
Is anyone around here doing something simular? Is it even possible?
So far, Milll local API implementation does not support gradual power adjustments. The only device that has multiple power levels is the oil radiator, which can switch between - 0,40,60,100% power.
Let me know if I have answered your question.
Best regards,
I found the issue, I was using the official Mill app, but that does not function well with my device for some reason. The community Mill Heating app switches the device on perfectly
