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Clarify hydronic heat pump systems #9

Closed purcell-lab closed 1 year ago

purcell-lab commented 2 years ago

I wasn't sure what sort of heat pump you were supporting, so I have added some clarification in the initial paragraph.

BigFoot2020 commented 2 years ago

Please help me to understand why do you think this clarification is needed?

First, meaning of "Hydronic": In broadest sense it means that heat is tranfered to water or using water, so it would exclude air-to-air heat pumps? I'm not very familiar with Daikin products, but in my understanding Altherma should be line for air/ground-to-water heat pumps (including hybrid with gas boiler), so this already should be clear enough and adding "hydronic" would not give any additional value as there is no non-hydronic Altherma Heat Pumps.

Also the actual limiting factor is not whether heat pump is hydronic, but if it is supported by BRP069A62/1 LAN Adapter. Therefore better update could be to remove "Altherma Heat Pumps" part and state that this integration is for "Daikin BRP069A62 LAN Adapter". On the other hand, it only supports Altherma Heat Pumps, so removing this part would not make anything clearer.

purcell-lab commented 2 years ago

Thanks for your work on supporting a HomeAssistant integration.

I have four Daikin air to air heat pumps and was unsure if your daikin_residential integration would support them. There are different terms and much confusion in different parts of the world as to what is a heat pump; air, ground, water, clothes dryers, pool heaters, airconditioners heating/ cooling, domestic hot water, inverter, hydronic household heating, ...

Daikin on their web site call their system Daikin Altherma hydronic heat pump.

I thought it would be helpful in your introduction to clarify that your integration supports the Altherma hydronic heat pump, because as you say there are no non hydronic Altherma heat pumps.

Altherma is a product name, whereas hydronic describes the functionality.

Upto you of course.

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