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Indeed yes the IHD do certainly serve a purpose for a lot of people. The home mini is a great little device and they’re not charging for it, may well be worth putting yourself on the waitlist for one of it’s of interest, just need to have a plug socket somewhere in a reasonable range to your meter that can also reach your wifi network.  I stuck mine on my IOT wifi network just in case.  Easy to set up and then I don’t think about it it just enhances and provides more up to date/live usage info within the octopus app.  Really this is what the smart meters should be providing and octopus are just briging that gap.

 

I don’t agree with everything Octopus does but this is one of their genuinely customer friendly helpful initiaves.  Alongside when they let people borrow thermal cameras during the winter to track down heat loss in the home for free, that’s worth a go too if you haven’t taken advantage.

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Do you have an octopus home mini? It’s a free device they’re handing out that connects to your smart meter and collects live usage data and puts it into the app, so you effectively have the same data in the app as you do the IHD. Since having one the IHD has sat in a drawer

 

https://octopus.energy/blog/octopus-home-mini/

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I can’t say I disagree. Social media is weapons grade brain rot, specifically targeted at making the adult brain hooked. This is orders of magnitude more effective on young kids. The damage has been plain to see … i’d welcome such an introduction here.

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Interesting. Hopefully this support is extended to the likes of BitWarden soon

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Interesting! Never been in that position myself but seems from what I see online people who have posted have certainly been able to negotiate a lot on it.

As long as it won’t be too impactful I would crack on and be seen as the hero for your neighbours for getting fibre in and take the kudos

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I think many aspects of wayleave are negotiable – from the payment to the actual particulars of what they’re doing such as if you want them to lay them deeper than they’re suggesting although payments never seem to be massively substantial.

I would think predominantly your neighbours would be more aggrieved if it was yourself being the blocker between them and getting fibre however :)

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Should have called is iOS Vista given the clear inspirations they’ve taken from it

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Back when I had a requirement for ddns, I used both No-IP and duck dns.  They were both fine but I found no-ip wanted you to log in regularly to keep it alive. Duck DNS had no such requirement so was more set and forget. Not sure if that’s still the case though.

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New version released

ASUS ZenWiFi BT10 Firmware version 3.0.0.6.102_36948

Version 3.0.0.6.102_36948

59.76 MB

2025/05/19

SHA-256 ：CFA951F78B156B2B6AFC15A1C60EE32A5E0311BE4B8C389F40B77DA53EFCB913

Bug Fixes and Enhancements:
Fixed Ipsec VPN related issues.
Improved Wireless compativity.
Add more localized internet connection types support.

Security:
Implemented a security patch to address an OpenVPN issue

 

 

Wish they’d specify what the enhancements are at least

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I thought windows phones were great, I owned one or two back in the day.  It suffered hugely from lack of developer support for apps though and that’s a problem they will still have if they were to launch a platform again. That said competition is always good, they usually have good hardware offerings such as their surface laptop is very good.  I would consider a surface phone.

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slightly worrying they didn’t even put it in the patch note though. Hopefully it wasn’t too bad having that fw on for months…. sort of makes me think twice about getting more asus kit if they fix something after months and won’t even put what it is in the patch notes, can’t think of any other firms who keep it secret even after patching. Must be something embarrassing for them but hopefully not dangerous for us…

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. UK Sentinel Said:

Alas I am not able to release what the differences are

Ooh they’re keeping it secret? intriguing :)

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Thanks, I didn’t check what version all the nodes were on previously but I uploaded the fw manually to the 1st node – it gives me the choice to upload to each seperately if not clicking the option for it to check and download itself, I only uploaded to one node but it seems to have done both..

They now both show 3.0.0.6.102_36921-gab1ff70_1212-gaab6f_BB0B which I take is the current then.

I wonder why they went to the bother of such a minor change and not a main version update

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Is it possible to ask them what changed with that one if the size and checksum is different? Doesn’t show up as available in the web client probably due to same version no. Wondering if it’s worth updating to that one manually if something changed. Or if there’s a new ver coming?

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Interesting i checked the asus site to see if there was any new firmware for the bt10. There was one listed for 28/04 but it was still the old firmware from a few months back. I wonder why the date updated and if they actually have a new one on the way.

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