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RE: Getting the best out of a heat pump - is Homely a possible answer?

Ah, no- sorry, forgive my lack of precision. By 'done locally' I mean client side on the browser, rather than 'local to the homely hub'- the data is b...

4 months ago
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RE: Getting the best out of a heat pump - is Homely a possible answer?

This is true when the figure of merit being optimised for is COP (or, more specifically, when input kWh is being minimised). Homely isn't using that f...

4 months ago
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RE: Getting the best out of a heat pump - is Homely a possible answer?

@cathoderay , @transparent I don't disagree with you that on/off cycling is bad and I could be making a big assumption here, but I thought this was ho...

4 months ago
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RE: Getting the best out of a heat pump - is Homely a possible answer?

To some extent agile tarrifs / the DFS is doing this work for them- homely is filling that need by handling these things automatically. I don't see wh...

4 months ago
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RE: Getting the best out of a heat pump - is Homely a possible answer?

Ours was installed November 22, but I've only had access to the dashboard for the past few months. (It is a Freedom supplied setup, as you guessed). ...

4 months ago
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RE: Getting the best out of a heat pump - is Homely a possible answer?

Aha. My guess may indeed be the case. I just realised if it's due to the PHE being a restriction the DHW bypasses this. Guess where the 1.8m^3/hr spik...

4 months ago
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RE: Getting the best out of a heat pump - is Homely a possible answer?

@cathoderay See attached for flow rate in l/min. It's not using a sensible scale and doesn't seem to provide a way to adjust it, but for reference the...

4 months ago
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RE: Getting the best out of a heat pump - is Homely a possible answer?

@el_presidente , givea try- it provides a lot of the info that connect masks off as a pro feature. I hope they keep the dashboard available but suspec...

4 months ago
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RE: Getting the best out of a heat pump - is Homely a possible answer?

I had similar- they called to ask if I needed a demo or any help as an installer, but were happy enough when I told them I'd just set up the account t...

4 months ago
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RE: Heat pump monitoring

In the case of homely, if you download the installer app you can see what it needs you to do software-wise, and they have a video or two on their yout...

5 months ago
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RE: Homely Smart Controller

Wholeheartedly agree! While I get the point that Homely might not want to expose customers to too much information and their secret sauce takes care o...

6 months ago
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RE: Getting the best out of a heat pump - is Homely a possible answer?

To add to this, since I've done a bit more digging for my own edification: It does look like the heatpump kW consumption agrees pretty well with the e...

6 months ago
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