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@agentgeorge Probably, but temperature change at -10 has little effect without a warm weather change as well. It just flattens the curve out: I haven...
@kevh So it does... maybe they are listening to people.
Press and hold until the light turns blue, not flashing. Then open your phone/tablet settings and look for the cosy hub wifi and connect to that. Na...
See my graph in response to @kevh. It may be possible in the hub to set a temp lower than -10c, I've not tried, but the returns really diminish alter...
I feel sorry for those people who have it installed under default commissioning or minimum setup, which seems to be the norm not just for Octopus, as ...
In the app, the minimum you can set it to is 50c but that may just flat-line the curve from the 50c point set in the hub to the -10C OAT mark. What y...
@swwils I believe it is well insulated: it’s a Finnish timber frame house designed to cope with Finnish winters. The basic structure is 1980s technol...
@agentgeorge I’m aware of the process - in fact, it’s been mentioned by @jamespa and @toodles in this thread a few times. The approach requires reduc...
I don’t know how it is implemented but the two temps you select are the end points at -10c and +12c. The WC curve is, as far as people can tell, line...
@agentgeorge They redid the survey and determined the heat loss was 1kW less than original. This also then identified that most of the radiators were...
@swwils I tried that, but couldn’t get the flow temp down low enough to stop overheating.
If the hardware limits what can be done then I don't see what an advanced controls mode could actually do. Currently, it is possible to run as "alway...
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