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    Woolworths Credit Card

    See my post on the 25th of April. Their initial cash back calculation omitted transactions that cleared from 30 Jan to 12 Feb. The extra allocation on 4 May (in my case) exactly matched those missing transactions.
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    Woolworths Credit Card

    If you've received your rewards statement for the December 2025 - March 2026 period, I urge you to double check it against your card statements for the same period. My statement's figure for February was very obviously wrong because the total reflected for non-WW spend was lower than my...
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    Tips to Boost your eBucks - 1 July 2025 to 30 June 2026

    You can buy electricity with 1Voucher so if you already buy prepaid electricity you don't need to try and find another way to deploy the 1Voucher. :)
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    Woolworths Credit Card

    It's at the top of each quarterly reward statement: "Remember rewards earned on the payment of utility bills are capped at a spend limit of R60,000 per quarter."
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    Standard Bank uCount

    The current fuel earn caps (max fuel spend of R2500 or 20% of total spend) have been unchanged since at least March 2022. The last set of rules I have saved from before March 2022 was from September 2021, and in those rules there was already a cap of 20% of total card spend, but it wasn't 20% or...
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    SA smart plugs that can be flashed with Tasmota

    Gave up because of the hassle of flashing them (prying open the glue-sealed case and unsoldering the mains pins is admittedly a schlep, but the end result is worth it), or because of reliability issues? I've had only two casualties amongst my 30+ UltraLink plugs... The first was because our...
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    SA smart plugs that can be flashed with Tasmota

    If memory serves correctly, that's what I encountered in the Connex device too. That's great to know! The last time I searched for them a year or so ago I could only find one or two listings which at that stage would only ship to SA using $80+ shipping methods. The link you just posted seems...
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    SA smart plugs that can be flashed with Tasmota

    I also have one of those round Connex plugs and have opened it. The WiFi module isn't ESP-based, so it's not a candidate for anyone wanting cloudless home automation.
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    SA smart plugs that can be flashed with Tasmota

    Have you opened or tried flashing any of the button-on-top generation of these plugs? All my power measurement kit is currently Tasmotised and I'd like to keep it that way. I have used the official Tuya integration for Home Assistant, but found it way too flaky and occasionally unresponsive...
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    SA smart plugs that can be flashed with Tasmota

    The first generation of the smart sockets with this form factor all seemed to be internally identical regardless of whether they were branded UltraLink, Vizia, INS, SmartHome or remained unbranded by the original manufacturer. The current listing for the Vizia socket on Takealot still has...
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    CBI Astute Power Monitor / Switch -- Tasmotized!

    You might want to get them to check the SANS 10142 standards. If the discussion at https://www.theforumsa.co.za/forums/showthread.php/14002-Geyser-not-on-earth-leakage?p=142514&viewfull=1#post142514 is accurate, earth leakage protection has been required for any circuit supplying water heaters...
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    Smart Circuit Breaker WiFi Issues (ESP)

    I'd echo that advice - these should always be installed in series with your existing appropriately rated breakers, and ideally down-stream of the breaker, so that if you somehow ended up with a live-to-neutral short in the wifi switch your breaker would trip for that circuit only. Realistically...
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    Smart Circuit Breaker WiFi Issues (ESP)

    I don't have any DB-mounted Shellys. My go-to for a DB-mounted switch/power meter used to be the ZMAi-90 - I have 4 of them from two different hardware generations installed in my own DBs and have flashed several for friends. They used to be really easy to flash, but the most recent ones I've...
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    Smart Circuit Breaker WiFi Issues (ESP)

    Yup. For me, the biggest reason to use your own firmware (apart from lack of reliance on anyone's cloud) is the ability to dynamically adjust your power reporting periods so that you don't miss sudden changes but also don't flood your MQTT/Influx/whatever servers with more data than you need...
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    Smart Circuit Breaker WiFi Issues (ESP)

    Sorry to answer my own question, but it appears that the rivets are top-grade Chinesium, so a drill is overkill. A small screwdriver will suffice to bend one side of the rivet towards the centre and then push it through to the other side - feels like a sufficiently snug fit that the bent rivet...
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