Rheem EcoNet Integration maintained by Kris Linquist

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No idea what that might indicate. Mine shows the same. HE is just showing logs from the ESP, which I'll probably just disable.

As for vacation mode, I hope it's in the cards. Still trying to figure it out.
Vacation mode sets your set temp to 68º. I am in the same boat as you, water heater in a vacation house where it gets cold, and I'd like to use vacation mode rather than off. Of course in the meantime you could do your own vacation mode... create a virtual vacation mode switch, and when on, it'll turn the water heater to eco mode when the upperTankTemp falls below 65º and turns it back to off when it rises above 75º.

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I was able to get a fully working Vacation Mode automation in Hubitat by keeping the device in HA (where the vacation mode toggle works fine) and using an HA automation to turn Vacation Mode On/Off based on a virtual switch position. The switch is shared with Hubitat and therefore any Rule Machine rule can now turn Vacation Mode on or off.

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Yeah, that was a workaround I was considering until I get it figured out :slight_smile:

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@klinquist Got mine all setup a few hours ago. Worked like a charm! Hardest part was stripping the tiny wires cause my wire stripper didn't go down far enough. Time for new tools!

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Those are two great workarounds on Vacation mode, thanks guys. I do wonder if the Eco Mode - Off cycling between 65 and 75 degrees would actually burn more energy due to hysteresis, but dunno. Not my area of expertise.

Regardless, @klinquist, do let us know if you sort out the Vacation thing. Happy to beta test, if helpful.

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I need some clarification and assistance. I recently installed a Rheem hybrid water heater and set up an econet account. Now I want to add it to hubitat but am not clear on the details of what is required and what talks to what. I bought the ATOM RS485 (A131) and the S3 Lite (C124). I've assembled them as described and programmed the device from the website. All appears to have gone as expected. The LED indicator on the device lit when I originally connected it to USB on my computer. However, the LED light does not come on anymore after programming the device. Nonetheless, I have HA running on my NAS is a docker environment. I also have a HE C7. I primarily use hubitat but use HA for dashboards.
Now to my confusion...do I need to add this device to HA at all? I have added it but did not set up ESPhome separately. Do I need a node setup?
Then I added it to HE and set up a virtual device. I first loaded the driver and code manually and then when it didn't work I used HPM to load it. Now the app wants an Econet account and password. I would like to not rely on cloud services if not needed.
So, long story short...what do I need to do differently than what I have done? Also, what powers the RS485 device? I've seen info about wiring to 12V on the heater and also 3V on the heater. I've tried a USB charger but I haven't had any communication so I'm not sure if it is even powered or operating. I did add it to my WiFi network when I programmed it.
Hopefully I haven't confused you as much as I am but I need a better understanding of how it works and what needs to change. Thanks for your help!!!!

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This thread was started by me when I took over the cloud integration.

Now, with the RS485 device, the cloud integration is not necessary. You don't even need a rheem account. You just hook up the device and follow these directions to get it into Hubitat. You cannot go through HPM as this integration has not yet been added. HA is also not needed.

On some water heaters, pin 6 is 12v and can be connected directly to the input pin on the RS485 device. For mine, I have it powered by a USB-C 5v power supply.

Do you see it on your wifi network?

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I got vacation mode working :man_dancing:

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@mluck Update the library file (from the same original link above) and give it a whirl :slight_smile:

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@jonathanb The PR into hubitat-public is ready for review :slight_smile: Rheem Water Heater by klinquist · Pull Request #29 · bradsjm/hubitat-public · GitHub

(Once this is merged, you can use HPM to install the driver)

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Thank you so much for the clarification @klinquist. After your explanation, I went and removed all the previous installed steps and started over. I now have it working successfully!! Thank you so much for your effort and your help!

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Anyone else getting a decent amount of events in the logs? Every 30s I get a quick spam of various logs, some Warn logs, some debug logs even though I have debug logging turned off and a few info logs.

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I just made some changes to suppress those logs. Update both the library and the driver from the original links. Ensure you turn off "Enable state update logging" in the driver settings.

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I just added a new feature as well:

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When this is toggled,
Turning the water heater ON turns vacation mode off.
Turning the water heater OFF sets vacation mode to permanent.

This makes it easy for me to toggle it via ActionTiles.

public void on() {
    if (vacationModeSwitch) {
        setVacationMode('Off')
    } else {
        setWaterHeaterMode('Eco Mode')
    }
}

public void off() {
    if (vacationModeSwitch) {
        setVacationMode('Permanent')
    } else {
        setWaterHeaterMode('Off')
    }
}
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@klinquist Thanks! I updated both of them and while it has suppressed most of the alerts I am still getting 2 warn logs every 30 seconds.

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Find this line in the library:

if (!message.contains("should block") && !message.contains("took a long time")) {

Change it to

if (!message.contains("should block") && !message.contains("took a long time") && !message.contains(“UNSUPPORTED”)) {

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That did it, thank you!

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@klinquist Well I'm back again with a couple more things that have been showing up in logs, any idea whats causing these?

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Nope. Those would be questions for the esphome-econet maintainer. You can choose to suppress them via the same pattern above.

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Just received my ESPHome hardware and got it connected. Super easy to setup! And it seems to work great - thanks for the driver Kris!

@klinquist, any chance the °F to °C conversion code could be added to the ESPHome version of the driver? :slight_smile: I can probably do this myself if you prefer - let me know.

Also, love that the energy level is showing in the ESPHome driver! Is the Power (kW or kWh) also something that can be extracted? I would use this to collect the unit’s hourly/daily consumption.