Gary Manuel

Me neither, but I have used someone else's Nabu Casa account to help them with a problem they were having and it works really well.

Best thing since sliced bread. I'm just using an old redundant laptop I had doing nothing.

Using Home Assistant and GivTCP addon, which facilitates automated local control of my two GivEnergy inverters.

It's not available to "Go!" users but it is available to "Intelligent Octopus Go" users as payback for handing control of the additional EV charging slots over to Octopus. Edit. You do need a compatible car or compatible charger that can be controlled by them, to be able to get on "Intelligent Octopus Go"

I have the same setup with my EV. Ohme Pro wall box, which allows Intelligent Octopus Go integration. IOG is leading the other generator's tarriffs in that it is using the surplus energy at Octopus's convenience to help balance the grid. Since the beginning of October, I have been getting immediate cheap EV charging during the day, whenever I plug in. House load / solar battery charging then also becomes cheap during the EV charging slots. I have setup my Inverter Battery to automatically detect when an Intelligent charging slot is in operation and charge the house batteries at the same time. It is working brilliantly. Last month I paid 1.26% at full rate (29.56p), 58.61% at 7.5p and 40.13% free from solar. Savings over standard variable rate was £255. The free rate was above 80% in the summer. I got the EV purely for commercial reasons as it gave access to this great electricity tariff. PS. I also get paid 15p per kWh for export.

I suspect it's also to do with keeping costs down. A touch screen with various standards of software features must be cheaper than a bespoke dashboard.

Touch screens in cars are a really bad idea in my opinion. Mine has one for audio / phone etc and controlling the index finger of your left hand at arms length whilst going over bumps and looking at the road ahead takes some doing. Give me a good old knob to grab hold of any day - ooh err missus.

BYD = Build Your Dreams. No idea what it means business wise.

It's very smooth actually, but I suppose if you really wanted to.......

Press pedal to accelerate, ease foot of pedal to use regenerative braking. It can bring the car to a complete stop and hold it on a hill. If you drive carefully, there is no need to use the footbrake unless you need extra braking force.

iPedal is permanently on for me. Just takes a bit of getting used to.

I bought a set of the micro drill bits. Good luck using the smallest one (0.3mm) more than once. I can barely SEE it, never mind drill a hole with it!

After the new programmer turns up and you've used it, you'll go to put it somewhere safe. That's where the old one will be.

I'm playing devils advocate a little here as I too had to fight my corner and feel that I benefited from it, but isn't this how bad behaviour becomes institutionalised?