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In fairness, I would find those temperatures too cold and uncomfortable. One of the differences might be related to thermal mass:all our walls are pl...
It’s been consistently warm over the last couple of days and I’ve found temperatures in the house have dropped off a bit. The landing is 22.4c and I ...
@razz they told me that as well, but they don’t live in my house and the primary pod in the hallway leads to the problem that I explained. Putting it ...
@razz the problem you are experiencing is because Octopus like you to run the heat pump thermostatically. Essentially, the whole house is being heate...
@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...
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