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@jamespa How it worked for me is that when I had all radiators fully open, that appeared to be on part of a long run of 15mm pipework, at least one...
We have electric underfloor heating in our reasonably large kitchen. Initially our surveyor calculated the heat loss of the kitchen and used the spe...
@majordennisbloodnok Thanks, what would the auto_purge look like?
@majordennisbloodnok Great! I am assuming I just need to add this into the configuration.yaml file? recorder:purge_keep_days: 100 I'...
@jamespa This was exactly what I did in the evening after getting the news that the we probably had too many radiators running off one 15m...
@rob-of-york These are all sensible pre install things to test. Certainly dropping the flow temp of the gas boiler down as low as you can go, maybe...
@majordennisbloodnok Thanks. Currently the system is using 25.8gb, total storage with everything else is 26.4gb. I have just removed a few of t...
I don't know if this helps, but I thought I'd add some info on our installation based on a similar (ish) situation. Unbeknown to us and the...
@majordennisbloodnok Over the last few days the Heat Pump has kicked back into action as the outdoor temperature has dropped below 15c, whi...
@majordennisbloodnok This is very helpful, thanks! I'll keep you updated on my progress. Having a fallback is what I need as I start to tinker mor...
@majordennisbloodnok I will tackle the emoncms over the weekend. This is where I went wrong as I need to edit the configuration.yaml file,...
Yes, a completely blank configuration.yaml file. I have added the default_config: you suggested and now I have the history back! ...
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