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#2855317 24-Jan-2022 08:45

Best thing about wifi connected heatpumps [imo] is that after youve been out on a hot/cold day on your way home you can remotely turn them on and come home to a perfect temp house without having to of had them run all day with no one home

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#2855321 24-Jan-2022 08:51

Personally, I can't leave without wifi on my heat pump. Connected to google home, it's just so easy to say "Hey Google, turn on heat pump". Or when I know it's hot as hell, and I'm out cycling, two clicks/google assistant and heat pump cooling my house just in time for me to arrive and enjoy beer :)

Scheduling yes, totally easier with the phone.

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#2855339 24-Jan-2022 10:12

I have a Sensibo for ours. I can't remember the last time I used the remote.

Mostly just use it with Alexa, but also quite handy if we're coming home and it's cold (or hot) can turn it on from anywhere.

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#2855358 24-Jan-2022 10:50

I have a mitisi heat pump with wifi installed upstairs, seriously thinking about getting a module installed into our older downstairs unit. i didn't think it was anything more than a gimmick, but i use it know and find it useful, set and forget.
When out i can check if the house is hot or cold and turn it on remotely so we get home to something pleasant. We also make use of rules, to schedule operation. The main one is to make sure the unit has been turned off at night and again in the morning. The other two rules are if during the night the room gets to hot, cool it down and switch off, and the opposite for winter ( the unit will turn on and off as required, and not sit in standby with everything running).

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#2855375 24-Jan-2022 11:14

We have two Mitsubishi heatpumps with wifi controls and love them, especially with Alexa.

I found this for my daughter to use with her non wifi unit.

https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005002961291134.html.

The advantage is that it fills the gap of being able to remotely get temperature and humidity information at a very reasonable price.

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#2855493 24-Jan-2022 12:03

Sensibo etc are a good option if you want to add WiFi to an device, but IMO it's a no brainer to get the vendor WiFi installed from new. What are you talking about $200-$300? As others have said, worth it alone to come home to a warm/cool house.

Sensibo doesn't support a 2 way communication AFAIK so if someone comes home, changes it in the remote it won't show the same as what the Heatpump is actually doing.

I've got a new Toshiba heat pump, which with the help of Home bridge i use via Apple Home. It works with Alexa/Google out of the box, and has a pretty decent stand alone app.

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#2855748 24-Jan-2022 14:21

michaelmurfy: it’s handy to be able to remotely turn on the heatpump or even do so via a voice assistant.

Yup. Nothing like coming home on a freezing cold night and having the room already warm as you come in the door, or vice versa on a hot day.

Also, don't get the obscenely expensive vendor-supplied one, get one of the large range of cheap third-party ones, at that price point it's a no-brainer.

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#2855755 24-Jan-2022 14:56

I use program / timer features extensively, that way I don't need to use manual / Wifi settings as often.

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#2855756 24-Jan-2022 15:00

lxsw20:

Sensibo doesn't support a 2 way communication AFAIK so if someone comes home, changes it in the remote it won't show the same as what the Heatpump is actually doing.

I have Sensibo Air units (the newer version) and they do attempt to recognize when the remote has been used to control the unit, but it depends on the Sensibo also detecting the IR from the remote control.

My experience is that it's a bit hit-and-miss. The sensibo will often tell me that a remote control was activated, but that it did not modify the unit operation, and therefore the Sensibo is no longer in sync with the unit operation. It's not a big deal though, you you may have better luck if the Sensibo gets better signal from the remote.

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#2855766 24-Jan-2022 15:28

I've been curious about these Sensibo units. Once they do get out of sync, how do you get them back in sync again? Is it simple as sending another command from within the Sensibo app which overwrites any previous commands and thus gets them back in sync again?

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#2855770 24-Jan-2022 15:35

Senecio:
I've been curious about these Sensibo units. Once they do get out of sync, how do you get them back in sync again? Is it simple as sending another command from within the Sensibo app which overwrites any previous commands and thus gets them back in sync again?

Yes. For most heat pumps what gets sent isn't a single comment like "temperature up one degree", it's a complete reset of every parameter in the system, including the single one you want to change. So all you need to do is send a command of any type to resync everything.

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