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A project log for Reverse Engineering Grant ASHP Remote Protocol

Reverse engineering the protocol used by our Grant ASHP remote.

mjc506mjc506 10/24/2020 at 11:470 Comments

With the PCB manufactured and delivered, components were quickly soldered in. To program the ESP-12F, the TX and RX jumpers are removed, and a jumper moved from 'run' to 'prog'. I used a handy nodeMCU (plugged into to 3v3, Ground, RX and TX, and reset) as a usb interface and flashed the ESP-12F using the Arduino IDE.

Then wired it up to the remote...

It worked! But two (related) issues.

The solution was to cut the two tracks, and a simple couple of wires added so that GPIO1 was now connected to the DS18B20 (thus held high) and GPIO16 now drives the solid state relay (and is now only an output). These changes have been made on the PCB designs, but no need for new ones to be manufactured for my purposes.

The system now works perfectly! In the future, I intend to have the module also drive CH and DHW demands, replacing the existing programmer/thermostat (This thermostat implements TPI, which switches the CH demand on and off in order to eliminate room temp hysteresis. Fine for a gas or oil boiler, but almost exactly what you don't want on a heat pump, where long, low temperature, runs are more efficient. And yes, it was installed as part of the heat pump installation...)

PCB design files can be found on easyEDA and also github, where the firmware for the esp can also be found.

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