Nice to see NC becoming involved with the board.
I don't run that much z-wave due to cost, but I'm all for improvements and tighter integration.
Especially since when I do want to spend money, ZW works very well.
GreatAlbatross
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Kinda like the BeltBox, but less brightly coloured.
Building wide generating and averaging absolutely makes sense.
It needs tighter regulation though. As when you have apartments that are effectively tied to a provider, protections need to be in place to stop ridiculous energy price hikes and maintenance charges.
Must be the fracking residue in the water.
I would put up with KFC being hit+miss (more often miss...), and being a little grubby sometimes, if it was cheap.
But it bloody isn't.
Bring them home from 2010 going by those prices!
Or maybe something like this:
https://www.securemeters.com/uk/product/room-thermostats/hrt4-zw-asr/
The unit with the buttons on is a simple relay, which hass can control to turn things on and off, and use a heating control with a temperature sensor.
But if you hit the button on the front, it also gives 30 minutes of on, which can be handy if the system had issues.
Or you could have a hass controlled relay, but also leave the old controller wired in on a manual switch.
So if there was a failure, you could go back to the old control by manually flipping it over.
I get timber/PIR/plasterboard from the builders merchant, and also take that plus garden waste to the tip, 10+ times per year, in a 4 seat car that weighs under 1 tonne.
Anything truly massive, they just deliver it to me.
The day I discovered that a 2.4m 6*2 would fit inside was a very good day.
As was the one I bought roof bars.
Or ignorance made a convenient fig leaf.
This is an absolutely brilliant summary.
It's getting to the point where the only saving grace for Tesco over Aldi is the delivery vans.
"Odd, this saveloy is a bit rubbery"