Last seen: Aug 15, 2025
Interesting, I will give it some thought. Python is good at automated data collection, and even a goon like me can write the code, given @derek-m's he...
For the umpteenth time, and for the avoidance of all doubt whatsoever and forever, I am not denigrating you. What I am doing is vigorously questioning...
@derek-m - I can't even begin to imagine how you put it all together. Thousands of cells, hundreds of formulae, some of which make my eyes pop: =IF(...
@derek-m - thanks.
A bit rum restricting comment. What I might consider constructive you might consider destructive. Never forget that free speech includes the right to ...
I still have Home Assistant on my system, and here is its version of the last month, showing OAT ('byte_09'), IAT ('MD02') and hourly trailing 24 ener...
@jamespa - OK, here are my calculated energy values and the Midea energy values for the same time frame as in the earlier chart plotted one above the ...
Don't feel bad about this, intellectual rigour is essential, and I would rather be corrected than wrong! I think I get your reasoning, especially wi...
Perhaps another way of putting it is this: yes, the heat loss will be marginally lower during a setback, and we could even at a stretch call that 'sav...
I certainly welcome you questioning my data results and conclusions, as I have no divine way of getting things right, and am just as fallible as the n...
Very prudent. @jamespa- I'm working on it at the moment, I think I am onto something, but at the moment I am only about 50% sure I have the answer, ...
I do something similar behind the scenes, though my inputs for energy in are amps and volts. I then average them over the hour (I found this gives the...
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