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Last seen: Nov 12, 2026
interesting post. so at the moment ive got Havenwise controlling my heating which doesnt have a setback option. if i go back to using the Vaillant app...
@jamespa so the potential for the water to short circuit through a rad wouldnt affect the scop? one guy on FB said if most of the lockshields and trv ...
The engineer came yesterday and as the rooms were ok temp wise said didn’t need balancing. So nearly all rads still wide open. has tried a fixed cir...
@jamespa so far today 2.1 scop. ill have a look on there.
@jamespa no airflow problems definitely. primaries 28mm, got a few bends. flow and return to about half the rad back bone 28mm. other half fed from tw...
@jamespa last 24hr according to the Vaillant app 2.55.
@jamespa just saw this massive spike on energy consumed which is sat in between two hot water heating mode on status. maybe a defrost?
@jamespa i seem to remember someone when i was digging for info on rad balancing saying they were having trouble as the Vaillant seems to want to cont...
@jamespa this is a graph with both flow and return on. seems to be keeping a 2.5c gap between them.
@jamespa ive just pulled the flow temp from the Havenwise data, as im at work so cant spin up Home Assistant. its only a few days and the first few da...
@jamespa there is data for hrs and on/off cycles. But since switching to Havenwise that Vaillant app status page doesn't seem to be updating. Until ar...
I might try a wipe and re install of Home Assistant to see if I can get the power info to show. Was going to put it on a RPI 3B I have but it won't wo...
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