A highly varied climate is just one of the many benefits (?) of living in the Midwest of the United States. Accordingly, our new home has a relatively complex HVAC system. In addition to a geothermal ground source heat pump (GSHP), the system includes an Energy Recovery Ventilator (ERV) to constantly introduce conditioned outside air and whole-house humidification and dehumidification.
Since this is our first year experiencing the four seasons in the home, we consider ourselves in the "sea trials" or "shakedown cruise" portion of familiarizing ourselves with the performance of the HVAC system.
To help us understand whether the various parts of the system are working as expected, I've set up a series of 1-Wire based temperature and humidity sensors to monitor the performance of the system. My personal blog article "The Skinny: Home Systems Monitoring Components" explains the tools we used to set up the initial monitoring system.
