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To be clear, I didn't say that Nest is a good control, nor do I think that.
I think it's simply because the outdoor unit already has a thermometer on it, whereas they can charge you extra for an indoor "smart thermostat" that'...
Isn't the important variable here is the average temperature of the house over the 24 hour period? If you turn it off for 3 hours, and the temp drops ...
Are you using pymelcloud to set the flow temperatures? I didn't realise it could do that! Or did you make your own code for that? I, too, have tried...
Probably their target market is flats. My old flat was all electric and storage heaters, which were frankly useless and wasteful, and barely lasted a ...
Yeah I've worked out the same for me - producing the same amount of heat that our ASHP is producing using our 20-year old gas boiler would be 40-50% m...
46kWh yesterday reported by the heat pump / MELcloud. That would have cost me approx £13.70. Using the reported consumption figures since it was ins...
I think there are some things that consumers/home owners need to educate themselves on, and some things that consumers can't/shouldn't be expected to ...
I've been thinking about this, because it was a really interesting point - what are my objectives and what things should I care about? Where I've land...
@editor We have two pumps that use ~35w each. The idle power consumption of the unit is also substantial I think. However, the "energy consumed" figur...
@oswiu Thanks Oswiu, I use the Home Assistant integration and have looked at pymelcloud as well (the HA integration uses pymelcloud iirc). Unfortunate...
Like you, I don't have MMSP and I don't have a "CoP" line on my MELcloud. However, if you use the developer tools on your browser to see the raw JSON ...
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