# \[APP\]\[Pro\] Piggy Bank **URL:** \ **Category:** Apps\ **Tags:** app, tools, homey-pro\ **Created:** [July 29, 2022, 10:07pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/app-pro-piggy-bank/66677 "2022-07-29T22:07:19Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 849
**Author:** ![frodeheg](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/frodeheg/32/49010_2.png) [@frodeheg](https://community.homey.app/u/frodeheg)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2023, 1:23am UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/app-pro-piggy-bank/66677/849 "2023-12-10T01:23:48Z")
> [@Gunder\_Sonsteby](#): > > Piggy Bank turns on and off the Aeotec switch a lot. Yes, but I wouldn’t say this is very uncommon to do. For example, in the image below you can see the last hour meter reader in my house, you can see how my oil oven behaves when set to 750 W (note that Piggy is set to 10kW this month, so it doesn’t turn on/off anything in this interval, it’s all what the devices do themselves): ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/uploads/athom/original/3X/0/6/06fd59a350a3b6cfe58b39d8f96f8b5aeaa382df.png) The oil-oven can be seen everywhere it’s a lot of switching. It’s on with 1500 W 30s, then off for 30s, with an average of 750 W… I don’t think the Aeotech switch will take damage using this kind of switching, but I would be more worried about doing this with AC devices. In general, I think it’s better to use the temperature-control of piggy rather than the on/off switching. So if you have a temperature reading from the water heater, then I would rather create a virtual thermostat device for it and tell piggy to control the temperature. Then set temperature control to “preferred”, then piggy will never turn off your device, only change the temperature, then the virtual thermostat will translate this into on/off. > [@Gunder\_Sonsteby](#): > > Is there a parameter somewhere to tell Piggy Bank about the kW usage so it does not turn it on only to turn it off after 30 seconds but rather wait a bit longer? No, but I think you can sett the switching time in the virtual thermostat --- _[View the full topic](https://community.homey.app/t/app-pro-piggy-bank/66677)._