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Cake day: June 13th, 2023

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  • I’ll write a quick gist for anyone coming along:

    One gas boiler in the house, each room has a smart TRV.
    PIR sensor to set room presence, each window has an opening mag sensor. HASS has a general presence sensor set.

    Each room’s temperature is targeted based on presence and window status:
    For each room, if person is home at all, and has been in the room for 5 mins, and the window is closed, TRV to 19, boiler on if <19.
    If the room presence is negative and the window is closed, drop TRV target to 16.
    If the window is open, drop the TRV target to 7.

    There is a little more detail that that in the article, but that’s the basics.













  • I can only speak from a UK perspective, but most home ADSL/VDSL/Fibre providers don’t have limits, other than “if your usage is tanking the network, we’ll ask you to knock it off” type clauses.

    Most providers are also signed up to an agreement that if your speed drops 50% below the agreed speed on the package on average, they’ll either give you refunds, or let you out of the contract.

    The only ones that throttle are the bargain basement operators aimed at people who don’t care, and one otherwise very competent provider that for some unexplainable reason only gives 1TB by default, charging an extra £10 for 10TB.

    And I guess there is also a pricing step up to guaranteed bandwidth. For business use, they tend to be things like 1gbits headline, 500mbit guaranteed burst, 100mbit guaranteed sustained.