21.03.2021, 10:57
I have been looking at home assistant because it is possible to integrate with Tibber, an electrical company here in Norway. With Tibber you can have a sensor in Home assistant that monitors the current electric price. This can be used to turn off warm water production in my bosch heat pump during higher priced periods.
The heat regulation in my house is controlled by knx switches with builtin thermostats. This can be controlled by home assistant although it is a lot of work to manually program every switch in HA. The heat pump runs freely and will meet the demand from the valves being open or closed.
However the KNX switch has comfort and economy mode and it should be relatively simple to switch between the two from HA. Scenes and things is better to do from Mosaic I have found out.
For the time being I have been able to read from KNX, but I havent been able to write back. Not sure if I have to do something in Reactor to do this?
So this is the path for heating: Tibber -> HA -> Reactor -> Bosch
for warm water: Tibber -> HA -> Bosch
I can also do Tibber -> HA -> Smartthings -> devices on zigbee
The heat regulation in my house is controlled by knx switches with builtin thermostats. This can be controlled by home assistant although it is a lot of work to manually program every switch in HA. The heat pump runs freely and will meet the demand from the valves being open or closed.
However the KNX switch has comfort and economy mode and it should be relatively simple to switch between the two from HA. Scenes and things is better to do from Mosaic I have found out.
For the time being I have been able to read from KNX, but I havent been able to write back. Not sure if I have to do something in Reactor to do this?
So this is the path for heating: Tibber -> HA -> Reactor -> Bosch
for warm water: Tibber -> HA -> Bosch
I can also do Tibber -> HA -> Smartthings -> devices on zigbee