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tagyoureit / nodejs-poolController

An application to control pool equipment from various manufacturers.
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Closed tomascrespo closed 4 years ago

tomascrespo commented 4 years ago

Hi I do not know if this is the best place to make a question, but I can't find any other way.

I'm building a small pool, 40m3, and I would like to get the info of the chlorinator to publish it in my Home Assistant installation. I'm intereseted in water temp, salt concentration and ph.

As I can see in this project there is nothing about ph. Does this project get ph data from any commercial product?

For my specific case, what equiment could I get nowadays ?

Lots of thanks

tagyoureit commented 4 years ago

The IntelliChem and IntelliPH are the two Pentair products that will give you pH. The chlorinator has salt info but does not measure pH.

A few of us have "rolled our own" dispensing systems using commercially available pH and/or ORP probes. You could do as much or as little of these as you would require.

This app doesn't directly talk to Home Assistant. There are a number of integrations to other platforms but doesn't look like anyone has contributed a native Home Assistant connector yet. There is work in progress to migrate Hubitat to the next version and the other integrations will also need to be updated for the upcoming release.

You may want to check out https://gitter.im/nodejs-poolController/IntelliPH_IntelliChem or https://gitter.im/nodejs-poolController/HomeAutomation for previous conversations or to ask further questions.

hth

johnny2678 commented 4 years ago

Just to clarify, IntelliPH doesn't read PH. It just doses acid on a timer. IntelliChem reads PH & ORP and can control downstream salt cells or stenner pumps.

tagyoureit commented 4 years ago

Oh, thanks for the clarification.