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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...
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...
@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...
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...
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). ...
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...
@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...
@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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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