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Lester Powerhouse
yesterday

Re: The way you sign in to your account is changing!

I'll refer to it as logging into the website account . . . not using the phone app in general apart from sending workshop readings in occasionally.I can go through the regular login, but now requires the code sent to phone, so instead of just having my pasword in the system and logging in with 2 mouse clicks, I have to either :Go through using my phone as well, getting either an sms code and then put that in, it involves 3 or 4 extra steps, some using keyboard, and getting phone out.Or, use a pa ...
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Lester Powerhouse
Friday

Re: Is it fraud? New Controlled Load using your solar

"Personally, I'll be getting my hot water moved over to the main circuit and getting the controlled load option removed from my account." Sure, but you have to get that breaker with a timer on it, so you can be in control of when it comes on.The Hager we had fitted. We still have it set for 0100 - 0500, so we are an hour each side within our very cheap 8c tariff midnight to 0600 (just in case DST mucks it about, or the EST that is the base times for NEM I think).It's like 30c or so a night avg, ...
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Lester Powerhouse
Friday

Re: The way you sign in to your account is changing!

"Get started with 2FA today You don’t have to wait to better protect your account. Follow the steps below to set up 2FA early. " Had to do this for about the past week or so, with no usual options to just login using my password.Not a big fan of the extra steps to get into the data daily etc. At least let users login for more than a half hour or hour, or whatever it is now.You should be able to log in, and unless you close the app or webpage, it should stay logged in permanently, or at the very ...
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Lester Powerhouse
a week ago

Re: Solar feed-in

..This is not usually a problem a retailer is primarily responsible for @elminster13 . . . Is this a relativley new system, and you are eagerly awaiting it to begin working in your favour ?Or, is it an existing one that has been performing fine up until a couple of days ago ? I suspect it is relatively new and it is not yet set up properly between the solar company, the power supplier (your DNSP), and perhaps AGL has to get notice of all that once properly approved and through the initial setti ...
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