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# Millheat Binding

This binding integrates the Mill Wi-Fi enabled panel heaters. See https://www.millheat.com/mill-wifi/ (opens new window)

# Supported Things

This binding supports all Wi-Fi enabled heaters as well as the Wi-Fi socket.

  • account = Mill Heating API - the account bridge
  • heater = Panel/standalone heater
  • room = A room defined in the mobile app
  • home = A home defined in the mobile app

# Discovery

The binding will discover homes with rooms and heaters.

In order to do discovery, add a thing of type Mill Heating API and add username and password.

# Thing Configuration

See full example below for how to configure using thing files.

# Account

  • username = email address used in app
  • password = password used in app
  • refreshInterval = number of seconds between refresh calls to the server

# Home

  • homeId = id of home, type number (not string). Use auto discovery to find this value

# Room

  • roomId = id of room, type number (not string). Use auto discovery to find this value

# Heater

  • macAddress = network mac address of device.
    Can be found in the app by viewing devices. Or you can find it during discovery. Used for heaters connected to a room.
  • heaterId = id of device/heater, type number (not string) Use auto discovery to find this value. Used to identify independent heaters or heaters connected to a room.
  • power = number of watts this heater is consuming when active.
    Used to provide data for the currentPower channel.

Either macAddres or heaterId must be specified.

# Channels

# Home channels

Channel Read/write Item type Description
vacationMode R/W Switch Vacation mode active. Note: In order to activate vacation mode, both vacationModeStart and vacationModeEnd must be set to valid values
vacationModeAdvanced R/W Switch Vacation mode advanced active. Can only be activated after vacation mode is active
vacationModeTargetTemperature R/W Number:Temperature Temperature to use when activating vacation mode. Note: If advanced vacation mode is set, this temperature is ignored and the away temperature for each room is used instead
vacationModeStart R/W DateTime Vacation mode start
vacationModeEnd R/W DateTime Vacation mode end

# Room channels

Channel Read/write Item type Description
currentTemperature R Number:Temperature Measured temperature in your room (if more than one heater then it is the average of all heaters)
currentMode R String Current mode (comfort, away, sleep etc) being active
targetTemperature R Number:Temperature Current target temperature for this room (managed by the room program and set by comfort- away- and sleepTemperature)
comfortTemperature R/W Number:Temperature Comfort mode temperature
awayTemperature R/W Number:Temperature Away mode temperature
sleepTemperature R/W Number:Temperature Sleep mode temperature
heatingActive R Switch Whether the heaters in this room are active
program R String Name of program used in this room

# Heater channels

Channel Read/write Item type Description
currentTemperature R Number:Temperature Measured temperature by this heater
targetTemperature R/W Number:Temperature Target temperature for this heater. Channel available only if heater is not connected to a room
currentPower R Number:Power Current power usage in watts. Note that the power attribute of the heater thing config must be set for this channel to be active
heatingActive R Switch Whether the heater is active/heating
fanActive R/W Switch Whether the fan (if available) is active (UNTESTED)
independent R Switch Whether this heater is controlled independently or part of a room setup
window R Contact Whether this heater has detected that a window nearby is open/detection of cold air (UNTESTED)
masterSwitch R/W Switch Turn heater ON/OFF. Channel available only if heater is not connected to a room

# Full Example

millheat.things:

Bridge millheat:account:home "Millheat account" [username="[email protected]",password="topsecret"] {
    Thing home monaco "Penthouse Monaco" [ homeId=100000000000000 ] // Note: numeric value
    Thing room office "Office room" [ roomId=200000000000000 ] Note: numeric value
    Thing heater office "Office panel heater" [ macAddress="F0XXXXXXXXX", power=900, heaterId=12345 ] Note: heaterId is a numeric value
}

millheat.items:

// Items connected to HOME channels
Number:Temperature Vacation_Target_Temperature "Vacation target temp [%d %unit%]" <temperature>  {channel="millheat:home:home:monaco:vacationModeTargetTemperature"}
Switch Vacation_Mode "Vacation mode" <vacation>  {channel="millheat:home:home:monaco:vacationMode"}
Switch Vacation_Mode_Advanced "Use room away temperatures" <vacation>  {channel="millheat:home:home:monaco:vacationModeAdvanced"}
DateTime Vacation_Mode_Start "Vacation mode start [%1$td.%1$tm.%1$ty %1$tH:%1$tM]" <vacation>  {channel="millheat:home:home:monaco:vacationModeStart"}
DateTime Vacation_Mode_End "Vacation mode end [%1$td.%1$tm.%1$ty %1$tH:%1$tM]" <vacation>  {channel="millheat:home:home:monaco:vacationModeStart"}

// Items connected to ROOM channels
Number:Temperature Heating_Office_Room_Current_Temperature "Office current [%.1f %unit%]" <temperature>  {channel="millheat:room:home:office:currentTemperature"}
Number:Temperature Heating_Office_Room_Target_Temperature "Office target [%.1f %unit%]" <temperature>  {channel="millheat:room:home:office:targetTemperature"}
Number:Temperature Heating_Office_Room_Sleep_Temperature "Office sleep [%.1f %unit%]" <temperature>  {channel="millheat:room:home:office:sleepTemperature"}
Number:Temperature Heating_Office_Room_Away_Temperature "Office away [%.1f %unit%]" <temperature>  {channel="millheat:room:home:office:awayTemperature"}
Number:Temperature Heating_Office_Room_Comfort_Temperature "Office comfort [%.1f %unit%]" <temperature>  {channel="millheat:room:home:office:comfortTemperature"}
Switch Heating_Office_Room_Heater_Active "Office active [%s]" <fire>  {channel="millheat:room:home:office:heatingActive"}
String Heating_Office_Room_Mode "Office current mode [%s]" {channel="millheat:room:home:office:currentMode"}
String Heating_Office_Room_Program "Office program [%s]" {channel="millheat:room:home:office:program"}

// Items connected to HEATER channels
Number:Power Heating_Office_Heater_Current_Energy "Energy usage [%d W]" <energy>  {channel="millheat:heater:home:office:currentEnergy"}
Number:Temperature Heating_Office_Heater_Current_Temperature "Heater current [%.1f %unit%]" <temperature>  {channel="millheat:heater:home:office:currentTemperature"}
Number:Temperature Heating_Office_Heater_Target_Temperature "Heater target [%.1f %unit%]" <temperature>  {channel="millheat:heater:home:office:targetTemperature"}
Switch Heating_Office_Heater_Heater_Active "Heater active [%s]" <fire>  {channel="millheat:heater:home:office:heatingActive"}
Switch Heating_Office_Heater_Fan_Active "Fan active [%s]" <fan>  {channel="millheat:heater:home:office:fanActive"}
Contact Heating_Office_Heater_Window "Window status [%s]" <window>  {channel="millheat:heater:home:office:window"}
Switch Heating_Office_Heater_Independent "Heater independent [%s]" <switch>  {channel="millheat:heater:home:office:independent"}
Switch Heating_Office_Heater_MasterSwitch "Heater masterswitch [%s]" <switch>  {channel="millheat:heater:home:office:masterSwitch"}

# Setting up vacation mode

In order to activate vacation mode, follow these steps in a rule:

  • Set start time (DateTime) on DateTime item linked to channel type vacationModeStart
  • Set end time (DateTime) on DateTime item linked to channel type vacationModeEnd
  • Activate vacation mode on Switch item linked to channel type vacationMode
  • Optional - set advanced vacation mode on Switch item linked to channel type vacationModeAdvanced
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