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@cathoderay Yes indeed, early adopters (even if it is of of well established engineering mechanics) we are, and I suspect, most if not all of us by co...
@benson We have Homely control and yes, you are correct; their idea is that whatever temperature you have requested will be regarded as the required m...
@lucia And even further… I have rarely been out in the garden at the right time to notice a defrost cycle but yesterday I just happened to pass the pu...
@johnnyb Hello johnnyb, yes, if I do resort to Agile again, I’ll investigate the Myenergi app - ISTR it was rather flakey nearly two years back but I ...
@boycey Sorry, but apart from my provider’s energy bills that are for all consumption, no. The Onecta app is next to useless and I do not have any mea...
@boycey The Homely Review may be seen at: Regards, Toodles.
@boycey The Homely price was £370 plus fitting but I can’t work that component out as it was contained within a day’s labour whilst other installation...
Efficiency and cost of energy do not necessarily align - so we have the rather dumb result that it is cheaper to use more energy at a lower COP but st...
@lucia Further, I would like to add that using WC on the Daikin is impressively good at maintaining a constant IAT - except at the extremes (particula...
@lucia And just to add, the Daikin ASHP is very good but it is a shame their manuals and their programmers are such cr@p. Ours is controlled by Homely...
Glad to hear it all went well; I wanted to use Octopus for all the reasons you have experienced, it was just that at the time of the survey, they had ...
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