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RE: The Importance of Radiator Balancing for Efficient Heating: Introducing the Flow Regulating Valve

@jamespa that is quite important. It would be good if they had a video tutorial on how to set them up, with some examples of the maths for us dummies!...

3 months ago

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Thermostats, Volumisers, Buffer Tanks, TRVs, Pumps, Piping, Valves, Radiators & Controls

RE: The Importance of Radiator Balancing for Efficient Heating: Introducing the Flow Regulating Valve

I may need to adopt this technique lol!

3 months ago

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Thermostats, Volumisers, Buffer Tanks, TRVs, Pumps, Piping, Valves, Radiators & Controls

RE: The Importance of Radiator Balancing for Efficient Heating: Introducing the Flow Regulating Valve

@jamespa You are right I must have cranked them down too much. I am struggling to get my noodle around what balancing is I thought it was getting the ...

3 months ago

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Thermostats, Volumisers, Buffer Tanks, TRVs, Pumps, Piping, Valves, Radiators & Controls

RE: The Importance of Radiator Balancing for Efficient Heating: Introducing the Flow Regulating Valve

Great video again this week @editor, I am very interested in the FRV valves referenced in the part about balancing. I had a disastrous attempt at bala...

3 months ago

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Thermostats, Volumisers, Buffer Tanks, TRVs, Pumps, Piping, Valves, Radiators & Controls

RE: No-code, plug-and-play monitoring for your heat pump

To update an ESP device using ESPHome in Home Assistant, you have several methods depending on how your device is set up:## Through Home Assistant UI ...

3 months ago

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Air Source Heat Pumps (ASHPs)

RE: No-code, plug-and-play monitoring for your heat pump

It is in the ESPHome settings, click on the device and edit and then add the new code. then do an OTA update

3 months ago

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Air Source Heat Pumps (ASHPs)

RE: No-code, plug-and-play monitoring for your heat pump

If there any more sensors that are holding registers that you would like to have a switch for let me know, it is pretty easy to create. Might be worth...

3 months ago

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Air Source Heat Pumps (ASHPs)

RE: No-code, plug-and-play monitoring for your heat pump

I think I may have found it, it looks like it is holding register 5 bit number 5, which means you should be able to read and write to it but it is onl...

3 months ago

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Air Source Heat Pumps (ASHPs)

RE: No-code, plug-and-play monitoring for your heat pump

3 months ago

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Air Source Heat Pumps (ASHPs)

RE: No-code, plug-and-play monitoring for your heat pump

Tailscale is kind of like a vpn connection (on steroids) you down load it onto each device you want in your tailnet load the integration into home ass...

3 months ago

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Air Source Heat Pumps (ASHPs)

RE: No-code, plug-and-play monitoring for your heat pump

@benson I use tailscale very easy to setup and rock solid.

3 months ago

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Air Source Heat Pumps (ASHPs)

RE: No-code, plug-and-play monitoring for your heat pump

Another handy tip always give your entities an area and a label makes it easier to find them when you start to add more stuff in HA.

3 months ago

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