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@dean-royston Yes, local control is absolutely possible either via the Android app that others have mentioned, or using GivTCP with Home Assistant. Th...
Unfortunately their demise is starting to look official: It remains to be seen what will happen - they have several different branches (i.e. as w...
@aventus-eco Thanks Sean, will drop you a line.
@toodles - yes, I'm sure the actual heat requirement will be far less. 100kW is the absolute upper bound, but I'm expecting something around half of ...
@toodles I'm tempted by Agile (recent and last year's costs looking pretty favourable vs Cosy), and then thinking of using a auto-scheduler for the ch...
@derek-m thanks - will include that in my next round of deliberations, certainly. Though in Northern Scotland it's a less attractive 18.8p/kWh today, ...
After many months of planning, sorting funding, disruption, and weather delays, as of yesterday we now have a SE-facing 6.64kWp PV array consisting of...
Quite a nice illustration of the effect of switching to Cosy - guess which day we started! On the data I've had so far (my smart meter's horribly ...
Usually closer to 300 at present, but we are gradually moving from the childhood to the shower-hogging teenager phase of life, so only anticipate it g...
@allyfish battery VAT: thanks for the reminder, however, ours will be part of a PV install, so I think there's no difference in our case. High DHW u...
Hmm, not sure about that - I think that would just shift the overall temperature up. The thing that triggers a reheat is dropping a certain amount rel...
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