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I certainly think it has an edge in the 11" size class

Yup and this particular vacuum seems a good example of something that is easy to repair. Lots of screws, nothing glued in place! Just need the parts to be easily available to buy.

@@SpeakToTheGeekTech yeah I completely agree! More like this 👍🏻

Hahaa, she's not bloomin' being allowed to do that again, I'm telling ya!

I’ve not really covered that, but it’s a basic standard setup. Are you using GivEnergy batteries?

@@SpeakToTheGeekTech No unfortunately. I’m using a SolaX battery and inverter.

Not a clue on controlling those sorry! GivEnergy does most of what you are asking by default. The only tweak needed by Home Assistant is to pause the batteries when the extra IOG adhoc hours are detected by the Octopus Energy integration (look for an intelligent dispatching sensor)

@@SpeakToTheGeekTech I got my setup just before Givenergy became available. Which is a pity a) because they do much more intuitively than SolaX and b) they’re British. Thank you for your help once again.

21.7kWh (8.2 + 13.5). I don't know what you mean by an Octopus approved battery system? I've never heard of such a thing.

@@SpeakToTheGeekTech The GivEnergy batteries which are required for the Intelligent Octopus Flex tarrif.

Oh right, yes I do have GivEnergy batteries but I don’t use that tariff personally. Check out Tim & Kat’s Green Walk and Gary Does Solar channels because they are both trying that tariff out over the summer

Hi! Good luck with your heat pump journey :) And yes, please quote my account A-E16D01B4 and we should both get £100 when your installation has completed. Originally they said it was a discount for you, but I think they just apply it as account credit now which is effectively the same thing overall because you pay for the installation from an Octopus account even if you're not with them for your energy.

@@SpeakToTheGeekTech Many thanks for your code I will give this to Octopus

Aside from the display using Wifi only at the moment, if I was being picky then maybe it has higher power consumption, and the lifespan might be reduced because of screen failure? But that screen makes it so much easier to configure and is handy to keep an eye on.

@@SpeakToTheGeekTech hmmmm decisions decisions...Im on the waitng list for the wired CAD but might just grab the IHD as its the local (MQTT) data I want...prior to its firmware update...there would be no real upside, but as it stands, theres no real downside and id just have secondary screen in the house

Your smart meter updates the live power data roughly once every 10 seconds and sends that to the display or whatever CADs you have attached to it (like Glow). However, the smart meter has nothing to do with my solar/battery reactivity - my GivEnergy battery inverter is monitoring the grid separately and can react within milliseconds to changes in power. If I were writing my own automations in Home Assistant to manually manage that sort of thing using the smart meter then you would be looking at a delay of 10-30 seconds including your batteries processing the commands. I don't think that would be a feasible way to manage it, it would be too slow.

There have been a few occasions where the Octopus API has stopped working over the last week or so causing the intelligent sensor not to update. This happened yesterday too. Unlikely anything is wrong with your automation, it’s probably related to Octopus issues.

@@SpeakToTheGeekTech No worries. The Octopus data (usage and cost) is correct from them so it’s just a quick correction for my spreadsheet. Just baffling 😁. Thanks for your quick reply and helpful videos.

Keep you eye on the intelligent dispatching sensor which should turn on when your energy is off-peak. If that’s not changing then that’s your clue that Octopus are having issues.

@@SpeakToTheGeekTech Thanks for the tip. It’s happened twice since I started the automation two weeks ago. This morning and last Saturday. I’ll keep an eye on it.

Yeah I would definitely recommend them for their work ethic alone even though they didn’t manage to solve the issue for me this time. We need more Cleevelys!

Good luck with your installation

I don't know sorry, you might be best asking this question in the myenergi forum: myenergi.info

@@SpeakToTheGeekTech OK Thanks anyway.

Nice, glad it did! It's been working solid for me since I installed it.

No date yet sorry, I haven't even started on a draft.

@@SpeakToTheGeekTech No worries I was just being lazy. Ill figure it out as Im an IT person but no ESP32 experiance :)

There are smaller models fortunately! And all sorts of ways of placing them around a home: wall mounting is an option. I’ve even seen photos of chimneys being replaced with them up top of a roof so they’re fully out of the way!

@@SpeakToTheGeekTech i don’t have a chimney either 🤣. Heat pump videos do not shoe an average terrace house, 2 bed semi, or flat. The house shown here is far from average.

To control a relay or to directly connect the ESP module to the button terminals on the garage door opener? If the latter, I was nervous about recommending anyone directly connect the ESP to the garage door controller because you never know if some brands push voltage through them or not. I figured the volt-free contact from a relay was the safest way to do it.

... as a significant cause of respiratory diseases and related conditions, I totally agree yes!

@@SpeakToTheGeekTech Not at all, good stuff, great heat, can't beat the glow !

In terms of its accuracy, it is spot on based on the data it has. However what the tariff comparison doesn't consider is that you would probably shift your usage pattern to align with the different tariffs in real life. And comparing with Agile is always going to be dodgy... it's just far too unpredictable! Still, I do agree it's a great tool for getting a rough idea of what could have happened

@@SpeakToTheGeekTech I think there is something wrong with the tariff hopping (which is in beta) for me as the winter Flux prices are very flow given my high ASHP consumption. The tariff comparison seems correct. Regardless its much easier to use than creating a spreadsheet 👍

Ah ok. Have you checked the meter data gap tool to see if there is data missing?

I've heard rumours about some Corsas not playing well with home chargers. Personally speaking I've never had any issues charging the Corsa at home (well, not caused by the car anyway!). I've always used the charger's scheduling features though because the car's built-in scheduling function is absolute pants. I did however have frequent public charging issues with it, I reckon 50% of my public charging attempts failed with the chargers refusing to negotiate with the car whilst other car owners could use the same chargers with no issues.

In theory a bug concerning safety would be managed through a recall, either voluntary or forced as it would be now. However that recall process can be a slow turning wheel!

It has put me off Stellantis a bit to be honest. It could just be because it’s their first generation EV, maybe they’ll get the hang of it after learning lessons from it.

@@SpeakToTheGeekTech let's see how it goes with the dealer - perhaps they can redeem themselves? I wonder if they have any internal knowledge sharing between EV technicians? Do you have any kind of 12V battery voltage monitoring? I remember MrEV had something which he used to debug 12V battery issues by monitoring voltage continuously over time. Might also be interesting to see if there are any parasitic drains on 12V? Apologies if this was all ruled out early on, but there's three reasons I'm going back to this: 1. When I had my 22kwh Zoe, I had some weird intermittent errors which went away and stayed away on 12V battery replacement, or by charging the 12v battery with an external charger. The hypothesis on Zoe forums was that it was an inter module communication issue caused by low 12v battery voltage. Also, our MG ZS EV has a 12V meter on the dashboard - I guess it's there for a reason? 2. Using and analogy from SW development - we all know the most epic debugging sessions happen when we make a wrong assumption early on, which doesn't get revisited until we've ruled out all other possible options. I learned recently this is a recognised problem for pilots troubleshooting planes in the air - it's known as a "framing problem". 3. Occams Razor - the simplest cause is the most likely. Genuinely trying to help - I appreciate you are much closer to the problem and it also seems impossible the Cleverly EV team could miss something basic, however. Do you know if they managed to repro the issue with a CAN bus data recorder in place?

@@AndrewEbling Hi! Thanks for the reply... I don't have any 12V monitoring but I'm sure that would have been useful. The saga is now over though, I won't spoil the ending but part three is scheduled in for about 3 weeks time. I don't think Cleevely missed anything obvious really, from reading on the forums about other owners experiences with this error message I suspect the car throws this error by default... like the accidental else clause in its software!

@@SpeakToTheGeekTech 😅 that's great to hear - I'll look forward to the next, and hopefully final, installment! I can almost see the code: ... else { // TODO - clear the error } 🤓

I don't know sorry. It might be worth asking on GitHub in the discussion for the integration. github.com/jwillemsen/daikin_onecta

Same for me just "Something Went Wrong"

Sat nav?

Honestly, I absolutely love the Corsa to drive and it’s been brilliant until now, and I want EVs to have a brilliant reputation, but this has made me think twice about older models. I’m hoping it’s just Stellantis and their first generation teething troubles because there are many other brands out there with second hand stock and a good reputation

@@SpeakToTheGeekTech it would be useful to get more of these long term ownership reports for EVs. The myth is that EVs are unproblematic but in reality they seem to be just like other cars. Fewer parts to fail but the parts that fail are expensive. And I'm saying that as someone who will never drive an ICE car again!

Yeah that battery-disconnect trick didn't work for me sadly.

THIS

Glad it helped

My sensors are all unavailable since a couple of weeks, but I can see everything in de HA PSA addon and up2date, so the sensors are the issue, did anything change to the sensor setup in Config.yaml?

I can't give away the ending, but part 3 is scheduled for a few weeks time :)

Nothing to do with it being an EV... it's the shared 12v stuff that's broken. A petrol one could have the same issue. I've driven a petrol Corsa too, it's a terrible driving experience.

I think Vauxhall are just prone to electrical issues they are French now after all my petrol corsa broke down weekly with one electrical issue after another.

Yes, go back to petrol, and await the the failure of the wet cambelt when it's out of warranty with the potential cost of a new engine!

Not with regular AC-coupled batteries, no. Something like the GivEnergy AIO with the gateway would be able to keep your solar inverter running and allow the batteries to charge, but a normal EPS doesn't allow that. Hybrids can charge from solar during a power cut too.

@@SpeakToTheGeekTech how do you mean hybrid?

@SpeakToTheGeekTech Can you advise of a way we can get around not being able to use the solar power?

You mentioned you had AC coupled inverters. Hybrid inverters run both solar and batteries at the same time, one inverter for both, so they can charge the batteries direct from their own panels because it’s all internal.

There is no way around that during a power cut unless you have a gateway to isolate you from the grid, or a hybrid inverter that has the panels and batteries connected directly.

Usually, yes. But you can then link Home Assistant to HomeKit and share the device back again that way. That's what I do so things are controllable in both HA and HK.

@@SpeakToTheGeekTech Thanks you.

My error couldn't be cleared by resetting.

@@SpeakToTheGeekTech That's interesting, as I said in another comment on the other video I've been a mechanic, and hands on workshop manager (since 1999) for a total of nearly 40 years. Although it is trucks rather than cars, we really struggle with diagnostics, we usually do a fault code read, save a copy, and clear the faults, you'd be amazed just how many faults build up other time, yet the car/truck runs fine without any warnings. You can have stored faults, or active faults, active faults sometimes clear, if they don't then you really need to find the cause, sometimes its straightforward other times we send them to the main dealer (yes they also struggle at times) or for cars a local specialist. I really can't see that this fault on your car is a software issue, you've had the car for at least 3 years, and if the software hasn't recently been updated prior to your visit to Cleeveleys why do you now get an error? I mentioned before that we generally clear the codes, well loads of those codes are communication issues, it could be a component causing those issues, it could be faulty wiring, one thing I'm certain is it will be a nightmare to find especially if it doesn't happen very frequently (think on a test drive). I expect Vauxhalls will throw parts at it until its fixed at your expense - so insist they put in for a warranty contribution towards the repairs, they will say no at first but it can be done, especially if the car has low mileage and is only just out of warranty - they can only do this after they think they've fixed it. Apart from cost, this is the very next reason I'm driving a 15 year old car, and the wife's car is a 2007 Corsa, they are far too complicated nowadays.

@@TheRonskiman Thanks for that info, well there is a part 3 to this story coming up in a couple of weeks but I won't spoil the ending :)

@@SpeakToTheGeekTech I hope you got lucky and it was an easy (cheap) fix.

Yeah at least we have a second car as a family though, it could be so much worse.

I suspect that may partly be the case. They have to provide updates to independents and technically they are… just in an awkward and costly way.

Me neither, it should be a bug fix and they should allow owners to update their own cars if they want to.

Sounds like a law that needs to happen

Not many cars do have OTA updates for crucial components such as the ECU. Lots with OTA for infotainment, many more with manually-updatable infotainment using software downloaded to a USB stick, but very few exist that update key CANBUS connected components.

@@SpeakToTheGeekTech all the 1000s of bugs they fixed over 10 years and didn't give to anyone, hope it was perfectly secure to start with

Your MG4 should have a 7 year warranty though right? The Corsa was 3 years and they didn't even offer me an extended one which is odd - normally they are all over the upsell! I think Stellantis have taken a malicious compliance approach to the regulations.

Too early for EV adoption where I'm concerned. Fine if willing to buy new and take the forecourt hit, but once warranty going you seem to have bob and no hope option wise. Cut off access to those friendly non stealership garages. Needs another 5 years for me to be happy and let the real world data and pain playout

One of the points I was making with this video is that this isn't an EV-specific issue. This is just a car like any other, and the components that are having issues are the same components shared with the petrol and diesel counterparts. This whole vlog could have been about any car, it just so happens it's an EV. The general complexity of the electronics in all new cars is generally more than the dealers are equipped to look after.

@@SpeakToTheGeekTech I understood that, but I've read too many unsettling reviews / comments (even in this channel) to be comfortable being beholden to a manufacturers 'software fix' EV's more than most are simply code on wheels

Shouldn't the industry approach this type of intermittent fault by installing a data logger? The warning is the result of signals on the CAN bus and once the error shows and is recorded it should be possible to diagnose it. I thought the systems were designed with this in mind. Just saying.

I guess though that's why they were put up for sale by their owners, so the chances of there being an error were higher. It's a shame though, I really want EVs to have a better reputation. My Corsa was amazing for 44k miles, I just wish it had been a more mechanical breakdown rather than electrical! I almost went for a Zoe on those PCP deals, I remember them! £99 deposit and £99/month but you had to pay rent on the batteries too if I recall. We needed a bigger car at the time though which was the main deciding factor.

@@SpeakToTheGeekTech They were all first owners bought new.

Oh wow. Well, I hope yours stays working! It proper stresses me out having the deal with the back and forth of getting things like this fixed.

@@SpeakToTheGeekTech I think mine was one of the first few in the country and apart from this issue it is still a great car. What I will never know is what caused it as it had been reliable for a year or so beforehand. Waiting for part 3 to see how you get on.

Update after Auto car engineer done some investigation Climate ECU shows 51 Bar for reference system pressure, EV control unit shows correct system pressure 5 bar software update to correct above. Booked in for software update with Renault Report from Renault Checked for cause of aircon not working, Checked gas pressure all ok, Carried out Clip check on EVC computer, found EVC computer not configured to have aircon, Carried out reconfiguration of EVC computer and tested all ok

@@ecoterrorist1402 So not even a fault, a misconfiguration

That doesn't even sound like an update, it sounds like the EVC wasn't set up correctly! Hope it's all ok now though.

@@Joe-lb8qn yes a software fault, but why?

@@ecoterrorist1402 I'd say it's clearly not a fault, the ECU was wrongly configured. Very different to a software fault or needing an update. The software didn't need to be changed. Hopefully you can let Cleverly know this so if they see similar in future they can try to rule it out before expensive tests.

Yup, warranty had recently expired

They are slowly expanding their operations across the whole UK. They are only just starting to install in Wales, I was the third here I think. It’s a sensible approach I think because they don’t want to install where they haven’t got local support in place or they can’t offer the service to you that they promise.

You paste it into a text file on your computer and save as a .yaml file - the video shows the upload process. Or visit the article in the video description and there’s a button you can click to import it automatically.

@@SpeakToTheGeekTech 👏Thanks, that worked perfectly

But overall less damaging to planets

@@SpeakToTheGeekTech 👍🤣