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soloam / ha-pid-controller

PID Controller to Home Assistant
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using the controller for ppm and fanspeed #40

Open checkiecheck opened 1 year ago

checkiecheck commented 1 year ago

So I see the output in documentation is in same unit as sensor. But , i want to control the fanspeed of a ventilation unit to keep the Co2 ppm on a specific level. Should min and max output then be in PPM or in RPM (or % of max speed which is easier)

so sensor.co2 = ppm output.min= 5 (% of max rpm) output.max = 95 (% of max rpm)

OR output.min = 400ppm output.max=1400ppm

but then i dont know what to put the fan speed at. Could you please enlighten me before i plunge into a wrong direction?

Cor1984 commented 1 year ago

I would say that an output of 0-100% is best. In most cases the controller is used to control something (like fan speed) sticking to just a range in percentage gives the user the freedom to control whatever device he wants to control.

soloam commented 1 year ago

Mostly I use the output from 0-100% as @Cor1984 stated, then I calculate the percentage accordingly. But if you prefer, you could set the minimum to 400 and the max to 1400, that that would be the rpm to pass to the fan.

checkiecheck commented 1 year ago

yeah.. thx both.. Did some more reading on PID controllers in general. I did go with the 100% approach. Ventilator has hard time (capacity wise) to pull ppm levels down when more people are present, so i have no good way to adjust the parameters.. will play for a few days from here (though setpoint changes are disrupting the controller i have the feeling)