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@rosst With 14 kWp. of solar, if your battery capacity is high enough, perhaps you might wish to consider a heat pump as the PV should go some way tow...
@grahaml Welcome Graham, the more ‘trained engineers’ contributing here the better!😉 Regards, Toodles.
Further to my previous posting, here are December’s and just part of Jan. 25’s solar production - I’m hoping this is a hint of things to come! Regards...
@irmartini My first foray into actual choice of the heat pump to be fitted was when Octopus carried out a survey in early 2023 and they were only fitt...
@johnnyb I think that Homely policy is still that of installer access only; if you go to their sight (and I didn’t say this) you may find that you can...
@johnnyb The Homely app is just for setting temps. DHW routines and programming the heating schedule(s) plus the preferences and tariff or TOU setting...
@rusty In our case, Octopus Energy capped the no longer required gas supply, removed the gas meter after taking readings and noting the IPAN number et...
@bontwoody I would further point out that the art of balancing your radiators requires some time and dedication (frequently with the addition of your ...
@bontwoody I am attaching three screen shots which I hope will show most of what the Dashboard information screen provides. I tend to select a few sal...
@alfapat I had the Daikin in use via the MMI for a short time (Feb. 23 for just a month or so) during which I found the WC settings worked very well e...
@johnnyb I cannot ‘capture’ the url on this image for you as it takes me to my dashboard if I try to go to the URL, but, here are the details you need...
@alfapat Part of the setting up for Homely requires (with Daikin anyway) that WC is turned off because Homely does the job itself. Regards, Toodles.
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