Anyone with OVO and notice a difference in their Tado-OVO gas usage?
For November the Energy IQ app in Tado says ~ £2.60 where OVO says ~£78.00 for the same readings.
My tariff is £0.1071 / kWH (which I’ve also entered into Tado) with a standing charge of £0.3193 / day.
Even with 5% VAT the Tado-OVO gap seems too big to be a rounding error.
Is anyone else seeing this?
The only other gas usage in our home is the cooker (4-ring hob & oven) which only sees modest use.
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@CoachKidd I'm with OVO and, with my smart meter providing reliable figures daily I get all the information I need from OVO. I did have Energy IQ for a year with Tado, but I've let my subscription lapse. It does nothing that can't be done with OVO, but what it does is with less satisfactory accuracy.
With OVO I can effortlessly compare monthly consumption from one year to the next....
Or look at how my daily figures stack up with the previous month or previous year....
A shower accounts for about 1 kWh, so inconsequential during winter season. Gas hob, hardly worth worrying about.
Cost figures are also an option, but I'm more concerned with energy use.
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Oh, and if I want a better clue to my actual heating hours, or how my boiler operates, I can gain that understanding from my half hourly figures.
And as my boiler output for heating is fixed at 9 kW it is easy maths to divide total gas kWh for the day (minus showers if I care) by 9 to measure my actual heating hours - boiler burn time - not waffly Tado numbers based on including radiators that have no heat.
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Me neither ... tado° only allows gas usage figures.
This kinda makes sense, at one level, but not when considering the overall view.
Ideally I'd like to see:
(1) tado° allows customers also to add their standing charge to their tariff.
(2) tado°allows customers to give a % figure for their gas usage due to the heating system.
I believe these 2 slight modifications would give a more accurate heating cost, as well as empower us (the customers) to make better choices, since our data is more realistic.
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Thanks @eezytiger ... 👏
I'll resign myself to using both apps - OVO for the lag measures and tado° for the lead (control) measures.
I like the way that you're steering your energy usage. I'm learning my new system and its responsivity by taking feedback (complaints) from the wife & kids, and I'm nudging up the individual radiator settings and heating periods.
All good fun ... 🤓👍️
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