To date, when configuring the Level 3 heat pump monitoring bundle for customers, our standard pre-provisioning process has included creating and configuring an emoncms.org account and a MyHeatpump app dashboard for each system.
We have generally left it to the user to login to HeatpumpMonitor and register a system on there. This carried over from the time when HeatpumpMonitor was only really designed for public sharing of heat pump data.
There are however quite a few features on HeatpumpMonitor that users of emoncms.org alone are missing out on, tools such as the heat demand tool and for installers with multiple systems a list of installs with performance metrics for each install (Half of all level 3 heat pump monitoring customers have not created public or private entries on HeatpumpMonitor).
I deliberated for some time about replicating these feature on emoncms.org itself but realised that the most effective way to move forward was to include setting up private systems on HeatpumpMonitor.org as part of the pre-provisioning process for level 3 heat pump monitoring customers.
We’ve started doing this now for just over a week. New systems being shipped now come with a quick MyHeatpump dashboard link that points straight to their private HeatpumpMonitor system.
E.g Emoncms.org app link:
https://emoncms.org/app/view?name=MyHeatpump&readkey=READKEY
New HeatpumpMonitor.org app link (with readkey for access):
https://heatpumpmonitor.org/dashboard?id=2&readkey=READKEY
We are also able to pre-populate some of the heat pump context form for customers e.g make and model of heat pump, metering spec etc. The form now highlights that systems can be kept private if the user wants to do so:
While we want to encourage the use of HeatpumpMonitor.org for both public and private systems. We also hope that by reducing the number of steps required to make a private system public, this may help more users to make their system public benefiting everyone (40% of level 3 heat pump monitoring customers have made their systems public so far).
Thoughts on this very welcome!