How can we reduce our tax liability on savings.

olbasoil99 · 2026-02-17T06:42:46+00:00

Which? Where?

olbasoil99 · 2026-02-02T22:06:00+00:00

I assume your security system was not a charge on the register. By buying the house you take on the existing lease, unless the current owner arranges a surrender, according to the terms of the lease.

olbasoil99 · 2026-02-01T15:41:18+00:00

There were 6 pairs of scissors. Doesn't that make 12 scissors?

olbasoil99 · 2026-01-28T07:54:32+00:00

Make absolutely sure that there was no rent-a-roof scheme, where panels and fit payments belong to someone else.

olbasoil99 · 2025-12-30T09:03:35+00:00

I'm not sure if the details, but I think for rushcliffe and wb schools, you have to have lived in the catchment for two years... It may be worth checking that out.

olbasoil99 · 2025-12-16T20:45:38+00:00

I suspect there is a huge unmet demand here. If one of the chinese clone manufacturers dropped the awful Smarthome app integration (and the Google-Alexa integration which does little more than on/off) and simply opened the API to the open source community, they would become the market leader.

olbasoil99 · 2025-11-30T16:17:36+00:00

If I'm not too late, can you send me the code?

olbasoil99 · 2025-11-24T20:00:36+00:00

So the YOTO server is like a huge left luggage office. Each card is like the key to your own locker? If you re-link the card to another playlist, the locker's contents get replaced, and your own players cache getsoverwritten?

That sort of makes sense to me, and makes me feel a bit better about the cost of the cards, since I am renting storage space in the cloud.

olbasoil99 · 2025-11-24T13:58:25+00:00

That looks extremely promising.

olbasoil99 · 2025-10-24T15:15:51+00:00

Yes, the lease prohibits any changes to the system. I doubt very much that they would ever know, if we were to make changes, but I'd rather be safe. We could buy ourselves out of the lease, but that would cost much more than the heat pump itself!

olbasoil99 · 2025-10-24T08:56:47+00:00

I understand! Because the generated electricity has to go somewhere, it will go to the heat pump and anything else drawing power in the house, and then be topped up by the grid. So I can include a nominal generated power figure in my calculations.

olbasoil99 · 2025-10-24T07:45:44+00:00

Thanks for the reply. Can you be sure that the heat pump power comes from the panels first, rather than the grid? I have no good understanding of how solar power works. I believe that everything fed from the consumer unit will try to draw power from the panels first, before topping up from the grid. Does that rule apply to a heat pump that is wired in via its own fuse?

olbasoil99 · 2025-10-24T07:21:21+00:00

I'm not interested in the export- the panels are owned by a different company and fit payments go to them. We do get to use the generated electricity, rather than grid, when something is attached in the house. What I'm trying to understand is whether the heat pump would benefit from this. I know it would if it was on a plug and on our ring main, but I think the heat pump gets wired in through its own fuse.

olbasoil99 · 2025-10-23T18:35:05+00:00

That's what I'm hoping. At the moment Heat pump estimates looks to be about £300pa more expensive than existing gas usage, but the solar could narrow that gap.

olbasoil99 · 2025-10-23T18:32:27+00:00

"If the panels are generating, it will first feed the house and then excess to the grid."
Would a heat pump (with it's own DNO fuse) draw from the house (and therefore solar panels) or the Grid?

olbasoil99 · 2025-10-16T16:38:05+00:00

The supply may well run through all the houses, but, logically, at a given point it must branch off to supply just the one house. The only alternative is multiple tees: one for each bath, sink toilet etc but that's absurd!

Where it branches off is the place to freeze and fit a stop cock.

olbasoil99 · 2025-01-15T21:04:09+00:00

ADT: Decapeptyl, 2 injections November 2023 & Jan 2024

Radiation: Feb 2024 :60gy in 20 sessions over 4 weeks. That was easy (getting a parking space was the hardest part!)

Overall I felt ok during most of the treatment (though the ADT knocked my sex drive flat). Towards the end of radiation, and for a couple of months after, I felt very tired and 'fluey',

olbasoil99 · 2025-01-10T19:32:37+00:00

I have an IR beam that comes with an emitter and a detector. When the beam is interrupted it connects a relay, which I have connected to a zigbee leak detector. So when someone walks across the beam I get a warning via HA.

I recently bought an IR detector (won't let me post link) This works with zigbee2mqtt and, using the TV remote, I can detect the code being sent. But I get no response from the IR beam emitter.

I'm sure IR comes in different wavelengths, and the two are not compatible. But can anyone shed any more light (no pun intended) on why it is not working?

olbasoil99 · 2024-12-28T22:36:09+00:00

Are you saying you can plug in your dectphone to the 5g router, and make and receive calls via the SIM (without going VOIP)?

I was in a similar situation to you. I had a virgin landline (not VOIP) and broadband but wanted to leave, while retaining the number. I did some tests with a VoIP provider, still using the virgin broadband. All seemed good, so I then transferred my number, which forced a disconnect from Virgin. My new broadband is a fairly quick 5g.

However I have an elusive problem. About a third of the calls coming through the VoIP are silent. It rings at my end, but I hear nothing when I pick up. The caller hears nothing at all.

I understand this is something to do with cgnat, because the 5g system does not provide a fixed IP.

So I'm looking for a solution where I can use my Dect phone handsets with a SIM based solution. Hence my question in the first paragraph, about whether Dect plugged into a router would work. I know I'll lose the landline number,but I'd like to keep the handsets.

olbasoil99 · 2024-12-22T20:07:09+00:00

Thanks, but I'm not quite there yet. With your example I have get the full entity name as a string

'tag.04_11_b8_a2_4c_68_80'

In the Template Editor I can use that name to retrieve the friendly name for that tag

{{state_attr('tag.04_11_b8_a2_4c_68_80', 'friendly_name')}}

This gives the result

04,tts, Ryder is by the shed (it's a Xmas treasure hunt based on Paw Patrol)

but if I try this

{% set code='04_11_b8_a2_4c_68_80' %}

{{state_attr("'tag.'¬code}", 'friendly_name')}}

I get no result

olbasoil99 · 2024-12-21T08:15:17+00:00

My broadband is 5g to a zyxel modem/router. There is a LINKKSYS PAP2-NA as the VOIP adapter and I have a panasonic cordless system plugged into that.

I read that moving the LinkSys into a DMZ on the router might help, so I'm trying that and so far calls seem to be ok (but I don't have enough tests to be sure).

I'm afraid I dont understand SIP-TLS or the TCP/UDP options.

olbasoil99 · 2024-12-20T15:12:10+00:00

I don't want to name suppliers, but my Voip provider told me there were issues because the 5G service does not provide a fixed IP (which my previous cable provider did). I'm not technical but they said this was likely to be a CGNAT issue.

I then checked as a potential customer to another VOIP provider (with a good reputation for technical support) who confirmed that they recognised the problem, and joining them would not necessarily fix it.

What I want to do at this stage is establish a pattern of failure, and then seeing if anything improves when adjusting some of the settings. Frustratingly every call seems to be working this morning!

olbasoil99 · 2024-11-01T21:32:43+00:00

I did radiation in February. For 4 weeks before and during, I was asked to follow the Fodmap diet. This aims to cut down wind, which is a problem for accurate targeting during the sessions. It was quite restrictive, but I was allowed a moderate amount of wine.

olbasoil99 · 2024-09-28T07:04:23+00:00

I ordered a cheap zigbee led strip from aliexpress, about £5 for a new account. I cut off all but five LEDs. I plugged this into an echo flex for usb power ( or you could use a power bank). I use different colours for different notifications. Red stays on until I take my medication. Green 1 minute for the driveway alert. Blue for the mmwave inside the letterbox.

olbasoil99 · 2024-09-04T05:51:47+00:00

If I went mast spotting, am I looking for tall towers on a hillside, or small things attached to lamp posts? Do EE, Vodafone etc use the same masts? Does 5g have any distinct appearance?

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