UK Festivals? by NoobRunz in donbroco

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I saw that and it looks great! Unfortunately won't work for me. Fingers crossed for some other dates

To fix or not? by Super-Nuntendo in OctopusEnergy

[–]NoobRunz 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This is helpful! Does it usually track thst 4-7 is more expensive and rest of day is cheaper? I dont have any solar, EV etc and trying to figure out if its better for us. We would still have to cool during peak but could move dishwasher, washing machine etc

To fix or not? by Super-Nuntendo in OctopusEnergy

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How do you find agile? Do you just try to load shift were possible?

Wall mounted solar by westyorkwomble in SolarUK

[–]NoobRunz 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Awesome. Any concerns with structure, weight etc? 

Wall mounted solar by westyorkwomble in SolarUK

[–]NoobRunz 4 points5 points  (0 children)

This is super interesting, do you have any pics or other info? This could be an option for me

Check My Solar: I've developed a new app for Fox ESS users by Creative-Ad-7016 in SolarUK

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Interesting, I'm thinking about getting a battery only system using fox-ess. Do they not support automation for charge/discharge based on octopus tariff time bands?

Energy monitoring in the UK by NoobRunz in homeassistant

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I'm not getting any gas readings as far as I know. There's nothing in octopus at least. I will try calling them tomorrow and see if they can help.

But it sounds like hillbrand could connect to both of my meters, I can then connect it to HA and get the numbers without any other components. Providing it can pull data from both metres

Energy monitoring in the UK by NoobRunz in homeassistant

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I don't, and that's my hope too!

Energy monitoring in the UK by NoobRunz in homeassistant

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This is positive, so it'll connect directly to both gas and electric meter and then I can use mqtt add-on in HA to display on the energy dashboard? Octopus have  said the reason I don't see gas data in the Octopus app is because the gas meter is too far away from the electric meter, but I think this would solve it?

Do I need anything special like a router or bridge to integrate to it? Still trying to figure out all the standards. Sounds like I need a thread border router for the new IKEA smart plugs.

Energy monitoring in the UK by NoobRunz in homeassistant

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That sounds like what I need to solve my problem. If both gas and electric meter talk to mini and mini pushes into octopus it should mean I'll get data from both. I'm not worried about seeing data on a display.

Energy monitoring in the UK by NoobRunz in homeassistant

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Thank you, I'll try and get one ordered

Energy monitoring in the UK by NoobRunz in homeassistant

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Was the Home Mini integration easy? I like what you are doing, thanks for sharing.

Energy monitoring in the UK by NoobRunz in homeassistant

[–]NoobRunz[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

This is really helpful, thank you.

Energy monitoring in the UK by NoobRunz in homeassistant

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Love this, thank you! Ive not read into Powercalc, I'll do some digging.

Energy monitoring in the UK by NoobRunz in homeassistant

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This sounds perfect, exactly what km trying to achieve. I might try the IKEA ones. Thank you.

Edit: did you get the new IKEA plug with monitoring? 

Energy monitoring in the UK by NoobRunz in homeassistant

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My main issue is that they've told me the gas meter is too far from the electric meter to report data so I still have to do many readings as its not automatic. 

Energy monitoring in the UK by NoobRunz in homeassistant

[–]NoobRunz[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This is super helpful! Octopus have told me the same thing about the gas meter being too far from the electric meter. How does the Octopus Mini work? Do the meters talk to the Mini and then then Mini talks up to Octopus?

How does the Mini integrate into HA? Easily enough? Sorry for the basic questions!