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Current supplier is Octopus, and we have been on Tracker for a few years which has been consistently cheaper for electricity and gas except for a few ...
Forum Handle: @scalextrixManufacturer: Vaillant Model: Arotherm Plus 7kWType: ASHPArrangement: MonoArea of Country: EssexHome Type: House Size: Square...
I've seen pictures of those fitted under a bath where the bath is boxed in. Just make sure to get one that activates the fan at a low flow temperatur...
Unfortunately I'm not that well connected 😂 I definitely agree with you that any closed source hardware, firmware and software always prese...
@jamespa things were shit in the "good old days", but we were happy anyway 😂
@jamespa talking of being old, the house where I grew up had a multi zone heating system. Downstairs had radiators, upstairs didn't 😂 I rem...
I hear you on the locality issue @transparent, and I agree if that's FM or AM type radio, or even LoRaWAN, but for cellular technology it seems unlike...
@transparent what I don't understand about these "rogue communication devices" is just what they will connect to, to present their risk profile. I ge...
Sure I get it but I was going off topic, kinda, but not really. The key point from my perspective is not placing critical national infrastructure in...
Quite, yes it's a disaster waiting to happen and just extends the nationally sensitive equipment map. Smart meters should never have had remote shut...
I have been working on network resilience for a while. I use my own router/NAT/firewall device, a separate switch with POE+ that drives a WiFi acces...
@toodles its easier to clean up afterwards too 😁 Truly one of the best items we bought for a long time.
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