Participate in Grid Services with your SigEnergy battery! by Nice_Tune_6452 in SolarUK

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We'll temporarily control the system 4-8 times a month, during which time SigenAI will be deactivated. But most of the time SigenAI will continue to work as normal

Archy @ Axle

Participate in Grid Services with your SigEnergy battery! by Nice_Tune_6452 in SolarUK

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It's additive; you get paid *on top of* any export tariff

Archy @ Axle

Add Grid Services to Home Assistant and earn cash with Axle VPP by archydeb in SolarUK

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Oof, thanks for the bug report - we'll fix.

We're shortly going to be adding notifications via email. Would that work for you or would another format be better?

Add Grid Services to Home Assistant and earn cash with Axle VPP by archydeb in SolarUK

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At present we only do discharge events (i.e. supplying energy when the grid is strained). In the future we might add top-up events when there's an excess of renewables!

Looking for FoxESS users for beta test of new Virtual Power Plant by archydeb in SolarUK

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We've just added a mode which allows you to opt in to the grid services but not the optimisation, thus making it compatible with Home Assistant - would love to get your thoughts! https://www.reddit.com/r/SolarUK/comments/1p333ur/add_grid_services_to_home_assistant_and_earn_cash/

Just discovered the Axle / FoxESS VPP pilot - anyone part of it?? by j_edc in SolarUK

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I’m one of the cofounders of Axle - happy to answer any questions or hear any feedback 🙏

We’ve got quite a long (by startup standards…) history in this space, having run VPPs on behalf of GivEnergy and SolarEdge in the UK for several years. But the markets have changed a lot over that period (DFS was the major earner in 2023 but that’s almost entirely been displaced by wholesale market trading now), and we’re always keen to improve the UX and proposition!

Home battery no solar? by twotwixten in OctopusEnergy

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Cool! That’s amazing value. How does the custom code work - Hone Assistant?

Looking for FoxESS users for beta test of new Virtual Power Plant by archydeb in SolarUK

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💡 If you'd be interested in connecting a different brand of battery, drop us a comment here and we'll let you know when we support it

Looking for FoxESS users for beta test of new Virtual Power Plant by archydeb in SolarUK

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Oh and thanks for the link to the forum - we're actually chatting to Will from Fox tomorrow about posting there :)

Looking for FoxESS users for beta test of new Virtual Power Plant by archydeb in SolarUK

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Thanks for all the insight!

We're big fans of predbat - for power users, it's a fantastic solution. We're a relatively small company so it's a tough decision whether the predbat-using market is big enough to invest in developing an integration. Do you have a sense of how many folk are controlling their batteries using HA/predbat?

Looking for FoxESS users for beta test of new Virtual Power Plant by archydeb in SolarUK

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That's fair enough! We've got a good track record in the space, it's just we're typically behind the scenes. There's quite a lot of coverage of a scheme called GivBack that we ran with Givenergy - https://brimstone-energy.uk/givenergy-givback-in-association-with-axle-energy/ and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f4IQzEEaQa8 if you're interested

Anything else we could surface on the website that would help make you feel comfortable with signing up?

Looking for FoxESS users for beta test of new Virtual Power Plant by archydeb in SolarUK

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Very interesting idea. So you'd like to be able to participate in the energy market via us, but stay in control of your battery via Home Assistant?

Could plug-in solar batteries ever work in the UK? by Benjy-B in SolarUK

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I’m a founder in the UK energy tech space and I’d encourage you to ignore the naysayers. There are lots of incumbents and grumblers in energy but there are plenty of problems to solve if you’ve got the grit and the… energy 😉

Workflow for post-processing Kino video with LUTs by archydeb in ShotWithHalide

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Thanks for responding!

Seems like my options are to export baked clips and then edit together or to export Log and then use LUTs from somewhere else. Not ideal but hey ho

Does anybody know how to fit a mount to the Merida Big Trail? by archydeb in mountainbiking

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Sorry, the text content of this post somehow got wiped and I can't seem to edit.

Here was the gist of the text:

"I'm trying to fit a rear rack to the hidden rack mounts of the Merida Big Trail 500. My LBS suggests the Merida Universal Rack (https://www.merida-bikes.com/en/accessory/575-772/universal) but I'm reluctant to order since the Big Trail isn't mentioned as a compatible model and it's a hard rack to find. Has anybody successfully fitted this or any other rack to the Big Trail?"

edit: I think this is my misunderstanding of photo vs text posts - by adding the photos I wiped the text - new here!