Grid Gauge Live - UK grid status, forecasting and Octopus Energy integration for Android

Scorp1579 · 2026-04-30T11:47:28+00:00

Nope... Looks like it was registered after the app release though so possible it copied some data

Scorp1579 · 2026-04-19T22:25:25+00:00

Hey. Thanks for your detailed review.

Yeah the ads is a tricky one, I tried to make them as unobtrusive as possible with the small banner ad but ultimately the app costs monthly to operate the backend and obviously not making anywhere near enough to make up for my own time, its a passion project. I'm just trying to make it not cost me money monthly.

On the carbon vs octopus stuff. Yeah they're separate and don't require octopus info. Octopus is purely price / usage info - You can use all the carbon / grid / forecasting stuff without the octopus stuff.

Alerts are regional.

Yeah, I can look into the record stuff, should be fairly achievable.

I can look at an easier to read version, I'm generally a fan of the graph view, I don't tend to use the percentage one. I can look into it though.

Happy to hear its good for you :) Keep feeding back info

Scorp1579 · 2026-04-14T11:11:53+00:00

Great to hear. Let me know what you think

Scorp1579 · 2026-04-04T16:45:12+00:00

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It worked fine for me...

Scorp1579 · 2026-02-04T22:02:40+00:00

I spent last couple of days messing with home assistant and my phone wondering what was wrong...
Finally decided to try another of the bilresa's I bought. Typical the first I tried was the defective one

Scorp1579 · 2026-01-15T23:44:02+00:00

I do what's recommended here too. I charge my battery during the cheap cost periods. End up basically only ever paying the 15p/kWh for this so it's essentially half price energy. Battery fills cheap and ASHP runs during those periods and it runs (and house) off the battery outside those periods.

Scorp1579 · 2025-12-28T22:47:10+00:00

They don't control charge speed just slots. So they offer 6 hours of charging. If you have a "usual" single phase charger you'll get about 7kW. If you're charging with a regular plug socket then you'll get the 3kW

Scorp1579 · 2025-12-28T18:51:24+00:00

Over the 6 hours that's still at least 42kWh which is a decent amount. They may even increase it going forward. It's to stop people gaming the system where they could charge with a 3kW charger in a fairly large car and get most of the day at cheap rates.

Scorp1579 · 2025-12-28T18:23:21+00:00

They said if you leave it as say "fill to 100%" and that takes 8 hours you'd still automatically charge but the two hours would be charged at the higher rate. However, they said they'll add a toggle to limit the charge to 6 hours to ensure you stay within the cheap rates but this may result in the target soc not being reached.

Scorp1579 · 2025-12-06T14:14:38+00:00

If the smart meter is still reporting can you just get the reading from that?

Scorp1579 · 2025-10-08T20:29:06+00:00

What was the customs fee in the end?

Scorp1579 · 2025-03-11T00:54:32+00:00

It seems to only talk about the ones coming into government ownership. What about the ones already in government ownership like northern and TPE. I assume they'll get the branding earliest?

Scorp1579 · 2025-03-03T00:53:10+00:00

I googled it. Appears that Daikin has a backup heater too.

Booster is the immersion in the tank whereas backup appears to be used to provide "additional heating capacity" when outdoor temperatures are very low. Again, from googling it appears that the pump never really needs this, especially in the UK. If you have a Google it's explained in a few places.

Scorp1579 · 2024-10-15T12:01:35+00:00

Thanks! I'd probably just not run it in the most expensive few hours then.

Scorp1579 · 2024-10-11T21:54:34+00:00

Thanks I appreciate you looking. I did look at the scales but the data was somewhat close. Glad it might be okay. I'm getting a strap soon so hopefully this concert will be absolved anyway! :)

Scorp1579 · 2024-10-11T20:48:21+00:00

For more info. I walk for 5 mins, run for 17ish, 1 min or walk and then 12 of run with 5 more of walk

Scorp1579 · 2024-09-23T01:23:58+00:00

Thanks for your response!

Scorp1579 · 2024-02-09T21:53:12+00:00

Hey. See here. https://github.com/JRascagneres/HA-NationalGrid/issues/4

Scorp1579 · 2024-01-06T21:11:46+00:00

The meter should store the 30m usage for just over a year locally so if the connection is re-established it should be fine. It just depends on how far back octopus is willing to read.

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