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RE: High air source heat pump running costs ā€“ Vaillant AroTherm Plus

@webcmg Hi, we're not even using half of what you're using. It's been -6 here for some nights and most days this week are around zero. Are you moni...

4 years ago
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RE: High air source heat pump running costs ā€“ Vaillant AroTherm Plus

@webcmg Weather Comp. is the way to go and find the heat curve settings for your zone(s) that works best for you. Our Heat curve works well at 0.35. T...

4 years ago
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RE: High air source heat pump running costs ā€“ Vaillant AroTherm Plus

@webcmg Hi, brilliant news you've made good progress. I'm using ZHA with works well with the Frient monitor. You need a device (Coordinator) that's on...

4 years ago
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RE: High air source heat pump running costs ā€“ Vaillant AroTherm Plus

@webcmg Hi, I use the SMETS2 frient Electricity Meter Interface which uses Zigbee and quite easy to set up with ZHA. I also managed to get my G...

4 years ago
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RE: High air source heat pump running costs ā€“ Vaillant AroTherm Plus

@webcmg Hi webcmg, it is. Here's the integration I used.

4 years ago
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RE: High air source heat pump running costs ā€“ Vaillant AroTherm Plus

@derek-m I'm afraid I can't answer why that is, other than the builder who fitted the UFH/Raditors and all the plumbing was different from the company...

4 years ago
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RE: High air source heat pump running costs ā€“ Vaillant AroTherm Plus

@webcmg We've got Glycol and the valves.

4 years ago
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RE: High air source heat pump running costs ā€“ Vaillant AroTherm Plus

@derek-m Yes Derek, we're doing our research around PV & Battery storage but there's no pressing urgency right now as we're on Octopus Go Faster u...

4 years ago
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RE: High air source heat pump running costs ā€“ Vaillant AroTherm Plus

@webcmg Here you go. Hope you're making progress.

4 years ago
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RE: High air source heat pump running costs ā€“ Vaillant AroTherm Plus

@webcmg. Here's what I see for my Vaillant devices and sensors (excluding the my Vaillant Ambisense TRVs). From the Vaillant sensors, I monitor Cylind...

4 years ago
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RE: High air source heat pump running costs ā€“ Vaillant AroTherm Plus

@webcmg Well done! You've got the hardest part out the way in getting the sensors added for the custom integration. Now you'd create a new dashboard a...

4 years ago
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RE: High air source heat pump running costs ā€“ Vaillant AroTherm Plus

@webcmg Did you manage to install HACS? Once you're into HACS, click the top right with three dots to add the custom repository.

4 years ago
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