This integration works perfectly fine for me. Have a 5 KW setup with a 120L water tank and 50L buffer tank.
Does the job as expected.
Just wondering if we can have these details available?
OFF-ON Counter
Total ON time on the compressor.
Also, as mentioned by multiple folks in the past - consumption would be the best thing to have. That ways we do not have to keep swapping between HA and the subpar Panasonic cloud app.
Hey @vaibhavratnaparkhi , We donāt have these values from the Aquarea Smart Cloud API. Itās available in the Service one, where login-in as we do in the smart one is not that easy (Iām not sure how we would do it and if we even can) and then the responses from their API are not that understandable haha. I like some reverse engineering, but this is not something I can take on right one.
If Panasonic exposes these in their Smart one, happy to add these. Thatās our hope, more data and functions into the Smart Cloud App so we can bring them into the integration.
Okay, so I found a guy from Panasonic that was willing to help but unfortunately the cloud team showed that they donāt understand what their end users needs and have zero interest on improving their very expensive and outdated network module an app. What a shame for such a good heatpumpā¦
Please give it a try and let me know what you think/find.
A note:
Please bear in mind that we work under Panasonic Aquarea API rules. That means that the integration can do what the API allows us. For example:
We are not able to add a sensor for COP because the API at this point does not provide that information. There are some values in the statistics endpoint called āgenerated energyā that unfortunately for the ones that we have tested it, it comes full of 0s all the time.
When making a feature request, Iād really appreciate if information about how that can be achieved with the official app is provided. That helps a lot to reverse engineering process to their API and App. Take into account that not everyone sees the same as not all the heat pumps have all the functionalities.
That was the missing piece. Intact exempt the calendar and some manual functions like defrost the integration offers as much functionality as the app itself and we can finally stop using it!
What I noticed it created few entities which are unavailable on mine side. Can I delete them?
They are disabled by default and you can enable them in case you wanna make use of the energy sensors on that flavor (although I still recommend the ones that come enabled by default).
This is an usual practice on integrations, to disable entities that are āless popularā and users can enable them if required. They cannot be deleted but since they are disabled, they are not added to Home Assistant.
Regarding weekly timers, I took a look to them but I donāt think makes sense to try to incorporate them into Home Assistant. We can try to add a switch to enable or disable them but I think thatās the most we will get. Thereās no 1:1 representation of that interface from the Aquarea App to entities in Home Assistant, and the same can be achieved creating the calendar and using the climate/water_heater services to control the zones in HA, on this case letting Home Assistant to run the schedules and control the device.
About the other pending things, such powerful mode, eco, defrostā¦ Those will come, hopefully soon, we have some contributors already helping to bring them in, so Iāll do my best to collaborate with them and have that incorporated
Iād like to have the integration fully translated to more languages. There are some parts already (thanks to everyone that stepped in and helped with this!) and Iād like to properly translate whatās not translated yet: Translations Ā· Issue #65 Ā· cjaliaga/home-assistant-aquarea Ā· GitHub
After all the missing functionality from the App/Web is in the integration, Iād like to take some time to check what was done, the way it was done, and refactor/improve what we can.
Of course, any bug thatās found or suggestion will be prioritized accordingly.
Hi great work! I would like to add one thing, it is not really related to your work, but I already noticed long time ago that even if I set correct timezone on my Panasonic, it shows statistic with one hour off. That why all data you receive from aquarea are 1 hour off too, I tried different approaches to fix it and change timezone to utc and etc, but nothing really worked. Maybe is possible to put in config for hour offset? For me it is quite important, because I use nordpool integration for cost calculationā¦
I wanted to gather your thoughts. Should these new entities reside in the controls section (main category) or do you think they fit better within the configuration? Maybe some in controls and some in configuration? All in configuration? All in controls? The functionality doesnāt change in regard to the category, itās just for the shake of organization.
P.S: I also added the binary sensor to know if defrost is running or not: