ASHP - Flow Temperature Result

FreeBear

nxdmsandkaskdjaqd said:

michaels said:

Do you have anything that monitors your household energy usage more accurately than the smart meter (half hourly)?

For example we have a battery system that gives us battery charge/discharge and grid load at 2 min intervals so is useful to see in general what different stuff is using (although this obviously does not differentiate all your other uses from the heat pump)

No unfortunately I only have the smart meter, which only gives a general view on consumption.

If you are with Octopus, they can supply you with a Home Mini for free. Use bottlecapdave's Home Assistant integration, and you should be able to get (I think) 10 second readings.

I have a Home Mini, but not really that impressed with it. Have been using a couple of Peacefair PZEM-016 energy monitors connected via a MODBUS->USB adaptor for several years now. The alternative is a Hildebrand Glow, but at £70, quite expensive. Has the advantage that it uses MQTT on your local network, so unlike the Home Mini, you are not reliant on the cloud.

nxdmsandkaskdjaqd

FreeBear said:

nxdmsandkaskdjaqd said:

michaels said:

Do you have anything that monitors your household energy usage more accurately than the smart meter (half hourly)?

For example we have a battery system that gives us battery charge/discharge and grid load at 2 min intervals so is useful to see in general what different stuff is using (although this obviously does not differentiate all your other uses from the heat pump)

No unfortunately I only have the smart meter, which only gives a general view on consumption.

If you are with Octopus, they can supply you with a Home Mini for free. Use bottlecapdave's Home Assistant integration, and you should be able to get (I think) 10 second readings.

I have a Home Mini, but not really that impressed with it. Have been using a couple of Peacefair PZEM-016 energy monitors connected via a MODBUS->USB adaptor for several years now. The alternative is a Hildebrand Glow, but at £70, quite expensive. Has the advantage that it uses MQTT on your local network, so unlike the Home Mini, you are not reliant on the cloud.

Just requested a Home Mini from Octopus.  Thank you for the heads up.

paul991

If  your with octopus if you ask for a mini you get usage half hourly ,last 30 minutes displayed in the app

FreeBear

Just found out that there is an Octopus Home Pro - It appears to be a Home Mini on steroids with the ability to run python scripts. Bottlecapdave's HA integration supports this new device without having to fetch data from an Octopus server. I've sent a request to Octopus to see if I can get my hands on one.

greenbee

My home mini was due to be delivered yesterday - unfortunately it appears that RM have delivered it to someone else. Photo of 'safeplace' is not mine (I was here anyway) and the tracking shows it 20 miles away, so I can't even ask in the village!

michaels

How does one apply for the home mini or pro (or for that matter get octoplus stuff)?  I have just moved to Octopus but can't see the options on the website.  Thanks

paul991

if you just put in the search bar on home page it comes up.https://octopus.energy/blog/octopus-home-mini/#addmetothelist

FreeBear

If you get a Home Mini, you'll need to enable geolocation so that the Octopus app can complete the pairing (I suspect the Pro might be the same). I had to install another app to fake geolocation as my android tablet doesn't do it by default.