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My Heat Pump Installation – Part 2
My Kronoterm Adapt ASHP is almost installed. In this post, the 2nd part, I continue the (long) journey of getting to this point. In part 1, I covered the trench, insulated pipes, concrete base and the heat pump itself. In this post, I’ll cover the plant room changes and the… Read ⇢
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My Heat Pump Installation – Part 1
My Kronoterm Adapt ASHP is almost installed. In this post, I run through the (long) journey of getting to this point. Planning I knew for a long time that I wanted to get an ASHP installed. When I move to the West Midlands back in 2021, I discussed the idea… Read ⇢
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ModBus ESP32 Adapter – A tiny disaster (but it works!)
In addition to receiving my latest Dual Temperature Sensor boards from PCBWay, I also ordered a few of my Modbus ESP32 adapter boards. I was short a 210Ω resistor, but I soldered it all up anyway. Never hurts to practice. The first objective was getting the ESP32-C6 talking over USB… Read ⇢
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Matter Dual Temperature Sensor – Reading Battery Level
After my success with my MBus adapter PCB, I finally got the push I needed to finish the next version of Dual Temperature Sensor. I sent it off to PCBWay for manufacture! This version had two important changes: In this previous post, I added the Power Source cluster to my… Read ⇢
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Automatic delay of my SmartThings Samsung Washing Machine – pt 2
This post follows on from part 1, where I successfully connected an ESP32 to the Samsung SmartThings API In this post, I add explore how I could use the API to delay the start of my washing machine automatically. Once I understand how that works, I can implement something using… Read ⇢
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MBus ESP32 Adapter – First MBus test
With my Revision F boards all soldered up and debugged, I was ready to make my first MBus communication attempt! In this post, I’ll run through the process. Issues with Revision F Before diving into the test, I thought it might be helpful if I gave a quick through some… Read ⇢
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MBus ESP32 Adapter Update – Voltage Booster now works!
This is a short update on the MBus ESP32 adapter I’m building. I wrote a long post about it over here, which I suggest you read first to give you some context. When I designed the original circuit, I made two mistakes in the schematic. Each mistake impacted a different… Read ⇢
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Automatic delay of my SmartThings Samsung Washing Machine
The testing of my Energy Manager continues at home and to be honest, it hasn’t been going too well. Both myself and my wife simply *forget* that we need be checking the energy manager. The number one offender was the washing machine as we’d load it and hit start without… Read ⇢
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Investigating Cooling with an air-to-water Air Source Heat Pump
My ASHP heat pump is due to be installed in less than a month (Aug 2026)! I’m getting a Kronoterm Adapt to replace my big, stupid gas boiler. Whilst the Kronoterm Adapt provides heating, it can also provide cooling. It does this by moving heat in the opposite direction, supplying… Read ⇢
