I’ve got esphome and a TTL-to-RS485 adaptor hooked up to the RS485 port on my EVO270-1. I’m currently mucking about with modbus, trying to talk to the heat pump controller as if I were the wifi dongle. Using the control panel I’ve set parameter H30 (Unit address) to 50, but I’m unable to talk to the controller via RS485. I put a logic analyser on the bus and could only see my transmissions, no response from the controller. I do see a blip to ground every 650ms or so.
I’ve tried with/without a termination resistor, with/without flow control, and a couple dozen other variations of wiring and baud rate, with no success. If I had one of the wifi controllers I could sniff the comms, but they ain’t cheap.