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by Zarch
Thu Oct 07, 2021 12:42 pm
Forum: Energy storage, batteries, energy tariffs
Topic: Octolux / lxp-bridge developments and forks
Replies: 6
Views: 4096

Re: Octolux / lxp-bridge developments and forks

Excellent Chris, all looking good. I've finally given up on Agile and moved to standard Go. :shock: So I need to come up with something similar to Octolux for Go. Whereby I use Solcast to determine tomorrows PV forecast and only fill the batteries to the required level based on PV forecast. ie, no p...
by Zarch
Wed Aug 04, 2021 6:35 pm
Forum: Green Building
Topic: Energy Management in Home Assistant
Replies: 1
Views: 4858

Energy Management in Home Assistant

Looks like some really neat new stuff included with the latest release of Home Assistant. https://www.home-assistant.io/blog/2021/08/04/home-energy-management/ The world is in a climate crisis. Global warming is a reality and the weather is getting unpredictable. Our way of living needs to change, a...
by Zarch
Thu Jul 29, 2021 10:15 am
Forum: Energy storage, batteries, energy tariffs
Topic: Octolux / lxp-bridge developments and forks
Replies: 6
Views: 4096

Re: Octolux / lxp-bridge developments and forks

Just an update Got lxp-bridge running in docker yesterday, all very straightforward. But obviously at the moment all it does is sit there talking the inverter, reading the status at present. Now it needs new control/logic wrapper writing to do all the heavy lifting and telling the inverter what to d...
by Zarch
Thu Jul 29, 2021 10:01 am
Forum: Energy storage, batteries, energy tariffs
Topic: Agile or Go?
Replies: 20
Views: 7431

Re: Agile or Go?

Stinsy wrote: Thu Jul 29, 2021 7:35 am
Don’t forget there are different standing charges on these tariffs.
4p per day difference

Agile 21p
Go 25p
by Zarch
Wed Jul 28, 2021 2:57 pm
Forum: Energy storage, batteries, energy tariffs
Topic: Agile or Go?
Replies: 20
Views: 7431

Re: Agile or Go?

As I tweeted about yesterday, i'd snap up the current Go pricing whilst you can. Gas prices are as high as they've been in years, so with 50% of electricity coming from Gas when there is minimal wind and solar the electricity price is high. Aside from a few plunges, Agile lows have barely gone below...
by Zarch
Wed Jul 28, 2021 1:26 pm
Forum: Wind Power
Topic: Part ownership of a Ripple Wind Turbine, fancy it?
Replies: 3938
Views: 725834

Re: Part ownership of a Wind Turbine, fancy it?

Due to exceptionally high demand since our announcement last week, our first wind farm is now fully sold out! 🎉

Stay tuned for updates on Graig Fatha’s construction and head to our website to join the waiting list and be first to know when our next wind farm goes live!
:shock:
by Zarch
Wed Jul 28, 2021 10:45 am
Forum: Energy storage, batteries, energy tariffs
Topic: Octolux / lxp-bridge developments and forks
Replies: 6
Views: 4096

Re: Octolux developments and forks

I spoke to Chris via email this morning and he tells me he's writing a new control package for the Lux; https://github.com/celsworth/lxp-bridge This will talk directly to MQTT. So I suppose all the 'decisions and logic' will be MQTT flows rather than hardcoded 'if then' type stuff in the code like O...
by Zarch
Tue Jul 27, 2021 10:29 pm
Forum: Energy storage, batteries, energy tariffs
Topic: Octolux / lxp-bridge developments and forks
Replies: 6
Views: 4096

Octolux / lxp-bridge developments and forks

I've loved using Octolux for controlling my Lux AC and Pylontech combo against Agile. https://github.com/celsworth/octolux Chris did a great job creating this and I much enjoyed the Lux / Octolux thread over on Navi, so here's a starter for ten. With a likely move for most from Agile to Go over the ...
by Zarch
Tue Jul 27, 2021 10:15 pm
Forum: Wind Power
Topic: Part ownership of a Ripple Wind Turbine, fancy it?
Replies: 3938
Views: 725834

Re: Part ownership of a Wind Turbine, fancy it?

Yep, i'm into this..... Early Adopter and Ripple Ambassador! :D
by Zarch
Tue Jul 27, 2021 10:06 pm
Forum: Introductions
Topic: Hello to the new forum!
Replies: 115
Views: 40510

Re: Hello to the new forum!

Howdy all,

Nowty gave me the heads up that Navi had gone..... sad times. So here I am. :D