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MagnusPer / Balboa-GS510SZ

An Arduino/esp8266 library to direct interface Balboa Series GS (GS510SZ) hot tube control system.
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esphome.io support? #2

Closed wjcloudy closed 1 year ago

wjcloudy commented 1 year ago

Hi, thanks for sharing this, going to try this on my own unit!

Just a thought, have you looked at writing this as a custom component in the popular esphome.io ecosystem? This way the wifi stability, MQTT, HomeAssistant support, OTA, web UI & central management problem is all solved for you!

https://esphome.io/components/sensor/custom.html

MagnusPer commented 1 year ago

Hi @wjcloudy Happy you have found this library and please use and provide your feedback. I have used this for a couple of weeks and it serves my main purpose to control when in time the heater should be activated or not.

Your question on using esphome - I have myself not used and by that not have any experience. Feel free to adapt the example code and make a proposal which we can evaluate and provide to the community as an additional example.

wjcloudy commented 1 year ago

Thanks, will look into it. I also want to use for controlling heater on time. I presume you achieve this by ramping the temp up during periods you want to use power and down at other times?. Have you found a way to adjust the minimum set point?

MagnusPer commented 1 year ago

Yes - I change the temperature dependent if I want to heat or not. My settings right now is to toggle between 37 and 27 degrees depending on electrical price using the Homey automation Hub

What I can see I never reach the low 27 degrees before start heat again, but it has not been so cold either this year!

MagnusPer commented 1 year ago

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