Last seen: Aug 15, 2025
No, it was just a sort of global in the middle figure, a general case, for a general case estimate. I suspect mine is less. The trailing three hour mo...
@majordennisbloodnok - you make a very good point, I haven't made it clear enough that this is all voluntary, you don't have to do it. I will make an ...
Mars - that's a huge amount of oil - I used not that much more (between 1000 and 1200 litres over a whole heating season to heat my old leaky building...
Fair point, but it currently means ASHPs and oil are neck and neck per kWh. I may or may not have been a bit generous with the COP I used, and a bit h...
I don't think so, at least for oil, don't know about logs. Assume: cost of electricity = 34p per kWh used, COP of 3.5 => cost per delivered kWh =...
@tried2fail - good to hear it is working. Note I changed the line of code that does the produced/used division a few times, trying to get it to stop p...
They, monitoring and controlling, are interconnected, sometimes only one letter separates them (get LWT/set LWT). Sometimes you need to get (monitor) ...
@tried2fail - Perhaps I should also add that the entities prefixed with 'Heat Pump Wi-Fi Controller...' come from the python module, while the bottom ...
Yes I did, thanks for reminding me, but I don't recall it being a critical error, or maybe I didn't need to restart HA, and so I didn't trigger the co...
Don't give up so easily! I was merely setting the level you need to be at, and said if you are not there yet, all you need to do is "bone up on these ...
I can certainly manually record data values from the wired controller, but some of them are very volatile (actual LWT/RWT, current draw, capacity (out...
@william1066 - thank you! Yes, it was pretty much from a standing start, though I did know what a disk image is, and what it can be used for, so I alr...
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