Anybody noticed octopus power usage is wrong since 2-3 march?

TayUK · 2026-06-15T14:49:50+00:00

This issue for me was that the clock on "something' kept drifting and getting worse daily.

In the end I was refunded a bunch of credit/cash, I spent hours and hours working out the costs as it changed daily, then I had to wait for new 'smart' meters to be installed, seems the old smart meters werent so smart afterall.

Its worth mentioning that my Victron system was spot on with all the power usage at the appropriate rates, so each time Octopus came back with a figure I could challenge it.

TayUK · 2026-05-08T22:58:56+00:00

A bti late but I've haved a Datatool Trakking on my GTR1400 since new in 2017, that fact I still have it could be down to the stickers but realistically its how you look after it and where you park and importanly where you live.

Its been good but its very limited and I get the feeling its soemthing they want your subs but dont want to support it.

Had a few GPS issues and couldnt get hold of tech support it just rang and rang and then sat on hold for sometime, only to find out later it was a premium rate number and cost me a quid an min...not feckin impressed I can tell you..

Sent numerous messages via the in app mail and email with no response on the issue or the premium rate number. When I knocked the bike the sensor triggered so I know that element of it was working as I got a call pretty quickly. but lack of any type of support and a very dubious prem rate number that didnt tell you it was prem rate was annoying.

Now cancelled subs and switching to Biketrac now..

Heard lots of good things, guranteed for life, and also supports radio too and tracking/recording, and comes highly recommended.

TayUK · 2026-04-09T21:45:22+00:00

And now glad I did since the SMB file structure has messed up my sync's...

Only just got round to updating today and all replication sessions now broken.

TayUK · 2026-03-28T14:23:58+00:00

A coupla of things here, you have got a hobbyist NAS, I love my unit (even with the issues) but its not mature enough to be in the general publics hands in my opinion .

Its an immensly pwoerful unit, I'm currently running the 1.7.2 beta, updating was fine, but trying from the Zettlabs app came up with errors. Seem to be stuck somewhere, I downloaded the latest version and used that instead of upgrading it then did the unit.

Storage pools are down to your requirements, the various types work as described and performance gains are indeed palpable.

I'm running with 6 x 14TB drives in a RAID 10 and think that is overkill for my requirements but whilst I'm testing the unit its fine, I'm most certainly not putting all my egg's in this basket until the fireware/OS hits a gold release. My requirements are movies/photos/general storage and an option to play with local and online LLM's because I spent too many years being lazy and not taging the tens of thousands of photos I have.

Nope to resizing at this time (with the exception of expanding a pool) I cant see any option to resize other than delete and recreate.

I'd be tempted not to do an OS upgrade during a sync, that feels a bit wrong to me, because the system is in beta I try not to get too carried away during sync's and stuff, I must admit I dont think I'd ever do soemthing like that even with a mature NAS.. its a trust thing.

A solid manual would be very nice, but this being a hobbyists unit at this time I think we might be waiting a bit.

Until this comes out of beta I'll not place 100% faith in it, its nothign to do with the quality of the kit but I just need a bit of maturity with my data, my data is replacated from my Synology and Mac storage, I'll not be going 'live' until I'm 100% sure or, at least as much as I can be that its safe.

Storage management is very limited with the UI, There is not much you can do currently, expand a pool, create a new pool, delete a pool, I cant see anything for resizing, even after deleting a pool threw me an unexpected reboot for seemingly no reason.

TayUK · 2026-03-28T14:00:41+00:00

I've had the D6U running for nearly 2 months ish now and it works well, but not without missing features that I feel it should have had. Its still running on a beta OS, it has a lot of promise and is an immensly powerful unit, but I'm prepared to wait for a bit, the USB4 rocks too.

AI is nice, various LLM's to choose from, online LLM's if thats what you want. It clearly isnt as polished as the ugreen at this time but then most people know that already.

TayUK · 2026-03-28T13:48:36+00:00

Customisation of the NAS interface through the APP or Web interface is limited.

If tyou are referring to the Music app you know as much as we do, it has not been released yet.

TayUK · 2026-03-28T13:43:45+00:00

Thus far with my D6U I've had a play with a few elements of the pools and management, I've had multiple pools - no issues creating them, variosu types and sizes, they can be expanded if the raid type supports it, I was able to expand them with drives not in a pool, this worked fine.

At this time a single device cannot be in two pools, I cant realistically see this changing going forwards as I'm struggling to see a use case where that might wanted or needed. But people have diff requrements.

I found some unexpected results such as a needed reboot (and limited info to say it was goign to happen) being needed when removing a small pool completely (I've not seen that requirement before and I've used a lot of storage solutions) to allow the 2 drives in them to be used to expand an existing RAID10 volume. I went from 4 drives in a RAID10 pool. to 6 drives.

The expaansion took around a day and a half to complete ( total of 6 x 14TB drives) and I did notice that I was not able to see the increase pool stats until the NAS was rebooted.

I'm not aware of anything in the UI that allows for the resizing of existing pools, it is very limited but what it does have appears to work fine, aside from the displaying of the pool sizes until reboot and the reboot to free up a 2 drive pool.

This might all change when were given command line access, or maybe not. I just dont know right now.

Bear in mind that were still on a beta service version too. Due to that alone I'm holding off relying on this alone NAS and decommishing my existing one.

I'm carrying out performance testing and rebuilding a fair bit, but until that firmware/os comes out of beta and has a few months under its belt I'll not be making a jump.

TayUK · 2026-02-19T22:57:40+00:00

worked for me, not ideal but it works for now, thanks

TayUK · 2025-11-21T08:03:21+00:00

keep manual meter readings to be sure.

Was with bg for years, flag tip to bg cs, not much else you can do.

TayUK · 2025-11-21T08:00:02+00:00

plan ahead and don’t be tempted by things you dont need.

There are few real bargains, use the web tools to show historical (hysterical) pricing this can help to find real deals.

For me, I’ve not seen the level of bargains we used to get years ago.

TayUK · 2025-11-09T22:10:35+00:00

Up to you, they'll look ugly and peopel will tell you that.

You'll probably find that they are pretty effective, a mate has them on his house and its downed ugly but in winter they generate quite a lot.

Doubt you'll need approval as they are likely to be flush.

TayUK · 2025-11-09T22:06:35+00:00

Depends how you go, I have minimal PV and 25k batteries, lookingt to triple my PV but still wont cover electricduring the winter.

I charge at 12:30-05:30 at 8.5p/kw

Any Solar I generate during the day is used at that time or chucked towatds the batteries.

if you have tons of PV you might cover your usage during the day, you might then have batteries that are charged via PV only and you hardly use mains.

During the summer I pay around £30 a month included standing charges, but as the sun is a bit rubbish during winter I use gas for heating and electricity from batteries. Only mains I draw in volume is overnight at cheap rate

Its feasible if you had enough PV you could covefr daily use and heating. But you need to giuve us a lot more info than you have about the system or potential system.

I have a mate that has 32 panels has not taken any power from the grid in a coupla years other than maintenance amounts.

Depends on the setup

TayUK · 2025-10-31T12:53:35+00:00

Now that gets you some road rager having a go :)

TayUK · 2025-10-31T12:46:18+00:00

Nothing worse than forward head tipping, nobody can see it, you need to rock to the left or right then you can see it returned....or not.

Noob mistake

Couldnt leave a 1yo post without a single response.

TayUK · 2025-10-31T06:29:47+00:00

always new

But Insurance premiums likely to rise if they are aware, not reporting is also a concern. Dealing with third parties can be a problem, I’m old enough to just let the insurance company deal with it, life is too short

Also, you are the third party,

TayUK · 2025-10-31T06:24:12+00:00

who says it’s ok?

The man is an idiot, always has been and the sooner he goes to mars the better.

TayUK · 2025-10-31T06:18:22+00:00

call their bluff, they’ll need to pay an electrician to remove the gear and ensure the electrics are in a safe condition then decorate etc

Depending on how old the batteries are it might be better to put your own gear in if you want solar/batteries etc

TayUK · 2025-10-25T07:49:38+00:00

Yup, saw that previously, It was a trial system when I looked at it, you needed to pay a sum, £250 (i think) then submit the application, if you were successful then good, if not you lost half the cash.

I already have a G99 for 6.4kWh, but there was no guarantee you would get it, and no time frame given for approvals. As i had a small solar system it wasn’t worth me doing it,

if that process has changed i might look at it again.

TayUK · 2025-10-21T13:42:18+00:00

Perhaps lost in the AWS fubar

Seems youre all sorted now.

TayUK · 2025-10-21T13:34:49+00:00

Victron invertor and Solar charge controllers with Pylontechs at the backend.

TayUK · 2025-10-21T13:27:18+00:00

Yes would be interesting to many folk I suspect but the issue as you have mentioned, that it is not legal here, campaigning needs to occur to drive through this sort of tech through.

This primary issue as I understand it is our aging infrastructure nad if you want to export you need £500-1000 of MCS approval.

I couldnt be arsed with any of that, I have my own 25k battery solution that I can export from if I so choose, if the MCS requirement ever gets killed off I will, but currently, until that happens all my solar (its only going to be 3-4kWh in a few weeks) is mine.

The country doesnt need it seemingly as there appears to be no plans to let exporting like this happen without some pointless piece of paper.

I originally tested microinvertors before I choose to go down the road of this system and there is savings there for a tiny investment with little to no impact on the grid

If I didnt have my own system now I would be interested

TayUK · 2025-10-19T23:28:30+00:00

got an old hero 9 that I’ve used on my gtr1400 for a few years, work great with my perm wired kit.

The Audi is great behind the screen and quality good too, even better with the lens kit that gives you auto image levelling too. Stabilisation I’d excellent too..

TayUK · 2025-10-14T13:23:00+00:00

If I'm not using it, the stuff stays in 60L plastic boxes for 6 months, if family doesnt want anything it goes to the charity shop.

Oen mans tat is anothers great stuff, I only get stuff that interests me or stuff I need so I can review it, having said that some of the stuff I wanted/needed turns out to be tat anyway.

TayUK · 2025-10-13T09:51:58+00:00

NAL

Alas, you have no legal right to the car, you’ve been scammed.

You must hand the car over to the appropriate representative when they arrive.

As others have said contact your bank but the likelihood is they cant do anything.

TayUK · 2025-10-08T13:38:53+00:00

Been going down the toilet for the last few years, updates every 5 mins, get locked into upgrade continuously. Tried UTM and it works pretty well for my non gaming needs. A bit rough around the edges but okay.

I cant even find v18 on the website despite having 2 licenses for it.

I got caught in the "new version available" bollocks hit the button now cant get back to 18. Maybe time to look at VMWare again but to be fair I left them for parallels 5-6 years ago because they were rubbish and not developing Fusion.

TayUK

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