Add device config for Midea-built air-to-water heat pumps - #280
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Midea builds this platform for many brands and they share one register map - Airwell, Artel, Ferroli, Kaisai, Inventor, Kaysun, YORK, and Clivet and Rotenso are reported working. The vendor documents it as the "Modbus mapping table KHA-KMK-KHC", which are Kaisai's model lines. Compatibility follows the wired controller rather than the badge on the outdoor unit, since the controller owns the Modbus side. Developed against a Midea 171H120F driving a Kaisai KHC, running since 2026-06 behind a USR-DR134 gateway. Register 131 reports the controller version and is exposed as a diagnostic so users can check before trusting the rest of the file. Credits Mosibi's hardware-tested ESPHome decode, which this register map was validated against and corrected from - several scalings and the register 129 bit layout came from there. 97 entities: temperatures, refrigerant circuit, electrical values, status and load bitfields, fault history, energy counters and the commissioning parameters. Uses the bit-field writes from the parent PR for the controls packed into registers 0, 2 and 5 - heating and DHW enable, the climate-curve flag, and the zone-1 leaving-water setpoint. Register 2 shows why the read-modify-write matters: zone 1 is the low byte and zone 2 the high byte, so a whole-register write zeroes the other zone. Two things worth knowing for anyone adapting this. Every register is a HOLDING register, so everything is under read_write_word. Using read_only_word (function 04H) makes every entity Unknown with no error. Setpoint ranges are the protocol's, not one unit's commissioning - mine allows 20-60 C for DHW where the protocol permits 20-75, and baking that in would silently cap someone else's pump. Each unit's own limits are exposed as sensors (registers 203/204 and 207/208) so they can be narrowed to match. Optional hardware - room sensor, TBH, solar kit, buffer tank sensors, second zone - is disabled by default, since an unfitted sensor reports a fixed sentinel (25 C, or 100 kPa for low pressure) rather than an error. Registers 210/211 report what is actually fitted, and are included so that can be checked.
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WalkthroughAdds a complete Midea 171H120F Modbus RTU device configuration. It declares writable controls, diagnostic registers, operating measurements, status sensors, and disabled-by-default entities for optional hardware. ChangesMidea heat pump support
Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to The new heat-pump configuration exposes writable heating, DHW, climate-curve, and setpoint controls, but those controls will fail at runtime because bit-field writes are not supported. The PR is not merge-ready until read-modify-write support is added or the affected controls are made read-only. Poem
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In `@custom_components/modbus_local_gateway/device_configs/midea_heat_pump.yaml`:
- Around line 23-30: Implement shared read-modify-write handling in the
conversion logic around the bits/shift_bits validation so writable bit fields
can update only their selected bits while preserving neighbouring bits and the
zone-2 byte; remove the NotSupportedError path for these writes and ensure the
controls heating, dhw, climate_curve, and heating_water_setpoint use the new
behavior before exposing them as writable.
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| # This config uses WRITABLE BIT FIELDS for the controls in registers 0, 2 and 5 - heating and DHW | ||
| # enable, the climate-curve flag, and the zone-1 leaving-water setpoint. Each is one field inside a | ||
| # register shared with other settings, so the write must be a read-modify-write; a plain write | ||
| # would clear the neighbours. On register 2 that would zero the second zone's setpoint. | ||
| # | ||
| # Entities for optional hardware (room sensor, tank booster heater TBH, solar kit, buffer tank | ||
| # sensors, second zone) are `entity_registry_enabled_default: false` - a typical install has none of | ||
| # them, and an absent sensor reports a fixed sentinel rather than an error, so it looks plausible. |
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Implement bit-field writes before exposing these controls.
The YAML declares heating, dhw, climate_curve, and heating_water_setpoint as writable bit fields. However, custom_components/modbus_local_gateway/conversion.py:203-222 raises NotSupportedError("Setting of bit fields is not supported") when bits or shift_bits is set. Writes from these controls therefore fail instead of performing the documented read-modify-write.
Add shared read-modify-write support before merging this configuration, or remove control from these entities until that support exists. Do not replace this with whole-register writes, because that would overwrite neighbouring bits and the zone-2 byte.
Also applies to: 128-140, 142-162, 186-202
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In `@custom_components/modbus_local_gateway/device_configs/midea_heat_pump.yaml`
around lines 23 - 30, Implement shared read-modify-write handling in the
conversion logic around the bits/shift_bits validation so writable bit fields
can update only their selected bits while preserving neighbouring bits and the
zone-2 byte; remove the NotSupportedError path for these writes and ensure the
controls heating, dhw, climate_curve, and heating_water_setpoint use the new
behavior before exposing them as writable.
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It's stated in the PR description that this PR should only be merged after #279 which implements read-modify-write support.
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@bprus, confirmed. Pull request #279 contains the required read-modify-write implementation, but it is still open and has not merged.
The finding remains technically valid on the current merge base. The stated merge order prevents the issue if #279 merges first. I will keep the finding open until that dependency is merged.
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File: custom_components/modbus_local_gateway/device_configs/midea_heat_pump.yaml:23-30
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Learning: Pull request `#280` adds the Midea heat-pump configuration and depends on pull request `#279`. Pull request `#279` implements read-modify-write support for writable `bits` and `shift_bits` fields. Merge `#279` before `#280`.
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@bprus Many thanks for your contribution |
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@timlaing Happy to help. I started a few of PRs, hope you will have some time to review and merge them soon. |
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Should be only merged after #279.
Midea builds this platform for many brands and they share one register map - Airwell, Artel, Ferroli, Kaisai, Inventor, Kaysun, YORK, and Clivet and Rotenso are reported working. The vendor documents it as the "Modbus mapping table KHA-KMK-KHC", which are Kaisai's model lines.
Compatibility follows the wired controller rather than the badge on the outdoor unit, since the controller owns the Modbus side. Developed against a Midea 171H120F driving a Kaisai KHC, running since 2026-06 behind a USR-DR134 gateway. Register 131 reports the controller version and is exposed as a diagnostic so users can check before trusting the rest of the file.
Credits Mosibi's hardware-tested ESPHome decode, which this register map was validated against and corrected from.
97 entities: temperatures, refrigerant circuit, electrical values, status and load bitfields, fault history, energy counters and the commissioning parameters.
Uses the bit-field writes from the parent PR for the controls packed into registers 0, 2 and 5 - heating and DHW enable, the climate-curve flag, and the zone-1 leaving-water setpoint. Register 2 shows why the read-modify-write matters: zone 1 is the low byte and zone 2 the high byte, so a whole-register write zeroes the other zone.
Two things worth knowing for anyone adapting this.
Every register is a HOLDING register, so everything is under read_write_word. Using read_only_word (function 04H) makes every entity Unknown with no error.
Setpoint ranges are the protocol's, not one unit's commissioning - mine allows 20-60 C for DHW where the protocol permits 20-75. Each unit's own limits are exposed as sensors (registers 203/204 and 207/208) so they can be narrowed to match.
Optional hardware - room sensor, TBH, solar kit, buffer tank sensors, second zone - is disabled by default, since an unfitted sensor reports a fixed sentinel (25 C, or 100 kPa for low pressure) rather than an error. Registers 210/211 report what is actually fitted, and are included so that can be checked.