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Thanks for that link. I've had a quick read of it, and it makes it a lot clearer. On the issue of what happens if the dongle dies, presumab...
OK, I've done the update, and it's still working, so I've had a closer look at what it can do. Since my basic WC curve works fine on a normal overca...
I've not done anything with it, beyond looking at the various entities that are exposed. It's saying that there's an update available, so I'll do that...
OK, I bought one of the dongles q couple of weeks ago, finally fitted it this morning. Powered up the FTC6, and was a bit surprised that the heatpum...
Major and f1p - thanks for the very detailed replies. I've had a read through of the dongle documentation, and it looks ideal for what I want to do ...
My WC curve is set at 32 degrees at OAT 15 degrees. 48degrees at minus 2. Settled on these numbers after a lot of tweaking. I haven't touched if for a...
Just to close this. Finally had the installer back last week to fit an immersion thermostat with a higher rating. As expected, no more rapid s...
Rather than disconnecting the Evohome boiler relay, I've added a switch across the relay contacts. This way, I can either have it on continuously, or...
The reason why the pumps were stopping is because the heating was switching off. The Evohome controller starts "modulating" the BDR91 boiler relay a...
I'm struggling to understand the "logic" used by the FTC6 to run the compressor and pumps. Graphs from today, 8 degrees OAT, WC curve target is 40 d...
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