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I look forward to your progress John since I’m equally ignorant and want to have the control local rather than over the cloud.
Our old gas system used to wake OH when the heating came on, partly through valves for the hot water coming on and partly through radiator creaking no...
Wow! I thought about your previous comments about having some of your system off-grid and was wondering if that meant separating parts of the 240V d...
@transparent will give you chapter and verse which you’ll probably need to get them to behave differently, but I understand that the MCS rules say the...
The option of supplementing the heat in shoulder season could have been an option too. We don’t use the stove much so our wood lasts ages (tree cut ...
Certainly if you can get an inverter which will take a battery (later) then that would be great, and a saving for later. We have solar thermal (from...
Good info @johnmo Are you using a calculation to achieve the COP or does the equipment do it for you? What is the total current for the ashp+pump? Wha...
@toodles the comparison between agile and cosy will be close. From energy stats this is the hour hour slot prices on agile for the last year whic...
@tim441 You might already know this but in case you don’t the information about how to find your giv energy API is on givenergy community and octopus ...
@tim441 since you have givenergy batteries you can use Octopus R&D. It was very quick to set up and allows multiple charge slots per day and charg...
@lucia Back to finances! we are at the very beginning of the control journey all to reduce electricity bills. For us the key question is when and how ...
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