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cibernox / homeassistant-poolstation

HomeAssistant custom component for integrating the Poolstation platform.
MIT License
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Reauthentication #10

Closed straybiker closed 2 months ago

straybiker commented 1 year ago

Once in a while I need to reauthenticate the integration, which causes my automation to stop. Could you make the integration as such that it tries to reauthenticate itself?

cibernox commented 2 months ago

I wonder if it is a legitimate failure on their API (which would be shameful if the API has downtime multiple times a day) or we're being rate-limited because we refresh data once per minute, which is still way less than the app or the webpage but constant 24/7.

cibernox commented 2 months ago

Some good news. After months of not using my own integration, I'm using it again. Now kids are back in school and I had enough time to add the necessary relays to control the pump and the lights using the chlorinator as hub.

straybiker commented 2 months ago

Some good news. After months of not using my own integration, I'm using it again. Now kids are back in school and I had enough time to add the necessary relays to control the pump and the lights using the chlorinator as hub.

What do you mean, using the relays to control the pump? I am doing this already since last year

cibernox commented 2 months ago

So was I, but a water pipe broke and all the pool equipment got flooded. Home insurance covered the new chlorinator, pump and electrical box, but I hadn't had time until today to actually connect the chrolinator's relays to the pump and lights to control them remotely. I've been using the chlorinator as a dumb chrolinator for months now.

cibernox commented 2 months ago

@straybiker out of curiosity, do you use the relays of the chlorinator to drive the pump directly? I wasn't sure how many amps those small relays could handle so I use those internal relays to control two bigger relays rated for 10A, and the pump/lights are wired to those.

straybiker commented 2 months ago

No, not directly. I have a frequency inverter in between and select the 'mode' by the relay output. Power is delivered by the inverter. Isn't the relay output rated to 1 Amp?

cibernox commented 2 months ago

Given how small they are, most likely. That's why I use those to drive bigger relays.

I do have an interesting automation too. I have a slider to select how many hours I want the cleaning to work. I can set that to any value I want or I could have one automation change that value based on the temperature (the warmer the water, the more it needs to be filtered). Screenshot 2024-09-13 at 22 27 55

It starts cleaning at 11am and I have one automation that shuts it down when it has reached the desired working hours. How is that different that working the given amount of hours? Because I have another automation that turns it on or off depending on wether the solar power excess I have is enough (or nearly enough) for the cleaning.

If the filtration is happening but a cloud passes by, or I turn on the over, the cleaning will stop and resume once the cloud goes away or the oven finishes. So the timer takes into account these temporary stops in the calculations.

straybiker commented 2 months ago

That is interesting. I use the scheduler card to control the pump, heat pump and target Orp. I made a selector helper with modes, such as 'fully automatic', 'off season', 'no heating'... And the scheduler card then sets the relays, heat pump switch,... Depending on the mode.