Separate DHW and Space heat monitoring

I’ve managed to split mine as I have a CT clamp on my heat pump controller. In essence, this is the boolean indicator for my system. yes/no, heating/DHW.

The Vaillant heat pump controller normally only draws 1 to 10W in normal operation, but when doing a DHW run it drives a pump connected to my Mixergy cylinder.

So when watts are greater than 20W I know i’m doing hot water, so I record electric in and heat out to separate feeds. That way I can create a DHW only heatpump app.

Note: this method would not be usable for anyone with a standard coil cylinder attached to a Vaillant.

Then on my normal heat meter power feeds I also subtract the DHW only figures to give heat only feeds.
Again, I create another Heatpump app just with the heating only feeds.

Finally, do similar for the power recorded via the SDM meter.

So I’ve got 3 Heatpump apps

  1. Normal combined heating and DHW
  2. DHW only
  3. Heating only.

This all came about via magic from @glyn.hudson and @TrystanLea :+1:

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