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Signed-off-by: Kai Neuhaus <[email protected]>
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- **Port** - Port of modbus on your heatpump (normally 502)
- **Device ID** - ID on modbus, 40 is default for Kermi (see [Device IDs](#device-ids))

1. Create _Kermi Heat Pump X-Center_ and attach it to the previous installed _Modbus TCP Slave (Bridge)_. Configuration requires an appropriate Data Refresh Interval with more than 2000 Milliseconds, default is 5000. If it's too fast, you may experience errors in openhab or your x-center ! (Reboot if x-center stops responding on network access). You can enable "PV Modulation" if you want to read the values (default: disabled)
1. Create _Kermi Heat Pump X-Center_ and attach it to the previous installed _Modbus TCP Slave (Bridge)_.
Configuration requires an appropriate Data Refresh Interval with more than 2000 Milliseconds, default is 5000.
If it's too fast, you may experience errors in openHAB or your x-center!
Reboot if x-center stops responding on network access.
You can enable "PV Modulation" if you want to read the values (default: disabled)

Details on Configurations explained below.

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## Persistence

You can / should persist some items you want to track, maybe you track your power consumption with another device (PV-System or 'smart' electricity meter), so you can compare these values.
As these values are long-running ones, maybe you should invest a little amount of time using influx as persistance (additionally to your existing).
Influx DB is the best storage for long terms and uses very small space for its data. Please read the documentation for better understanding how it works.

Simple: Install influxDB (>2.x) on a system within your network and enter your configuration settings in openhab using the influxdb-binding.
As you do not track that mass of data you can use a raspberry pi with and SSD attaches to it (do NOT use an SD-card as database-storage).
Suggestion / Optional:
As these (power & temperature) values are long-running ones, maybe you should invest a little amount of time using influxDB as persistence (additionally to your existing default persistence in openHAB).
InfluxDB is a good storage-solution for long terms and uses very small space for its data. Please read the documentation for better understanding how it works.


### Visualization

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