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nickmcg

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Not intentionally causing offence.

Easily distracted.

Home automation enthusiast/bore.
#HomeAssistant #Zigbee #Zigbee2Mqtt #nodered #tasmota and whatever else tickles my fancy this week.

#Opensource of course

I'm old enough to know better.

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bazcurtis, to random
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Octopus Agile rates are not very good overnight. Better around lunchtime. I don’t think I will charge overnight tonight. Export will have to wait until it has topped up the battery.

nickmcg,
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@bazcurtis I'm looking at Octopus Flux as I have solar and decent battery storage. It looks like is should give better returns than Agile.
Thoughts?

nickmcg,
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@bazcurtis I'm new to this, but I'm importing very little (approx 20W to keep the iBoost sensor happy) and have a decent amount of battery available to export at peak time.
It looks like your blog will be very helpful to me too 😀

nickmcg,
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@bazcurtis I'm also not sure about iBoost and it's settings. If I deliberately export at Glow peak times, I don't really want it to heat the water while that's happening. I'll be using a smart switch to disable it 😂

nickmcg,
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@bazcurtis If it's not a rude question, what inverter are you using?

nickmcg,
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@bazcurtis ok, I was wondering as I have a Sunsynk and (once Octopus get my meter sorted out so I can usFlux), I'm planning on implementing this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IktkBl3inTA

I'm already using his dongle to locally monitor my system.

nickmcg,
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@bazcurtis I'm still feeling my way at the moment and my imports are minimal - less than 1kWh/day so chasing price fluctuations may not be worthwhile.
Until next winter ...

I'm using the power flow card too, as well as the full desktop from https://github.com/tomatensaus/DeyeSolarDesktop, although it's all Sunsynk-based it could probably be translated...

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question.

I have a remote(ish) outbuilding connected to my network via ubiquity nanostations, so too far for my mesh. Is my best bet to run a second zigbee2mqtt instance, or is there a cleverer solution?

nickmcg,
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@asjmcguire @homeassistant Thanks for that 😀

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