Octopus Tracker

Bendo

saucer said:

Bendo said:

Was just coming on to say it's nice seeing gas below 5p. Alas I'll use little to none tomorrow as it's cheaper to heat the thermal store on Agile electric.

Of course low summer use is one reason gas is cheap. I’ve fixed with outfox. Elec 20.4 and gas 5.8 for 2 years. Can’t be arsed constantly worrying about the daily changes in prices

A reasonable option. I'm happy with risking tracker gas and Agile for electric. In Merseyside so one of the pricier regions and averaged just under 17p for Elec and 5.8p for gas over the past year.  Last winter wasn't great for wind, hopefully this year will be better to pull that down a bit more.

QrizB

Gas is below 5p/kWh for the weekend. Not that we'll need much, with the weather that's forecast

My last two Tracker gas bills have used averaged / profiled daily consumption, not actual smart meter readings. I'm seeing smart meter data in the Octopus app so I guess there have been occasional half-hour slots missing from the data pulled by Octopus. Again, no big issue over the summer but could be a problem when we get into the winter.

debitcardmayhem

QrizB said:

Gas is below 5p/kWh for the weekend. Not that we'll need much, with the weather that's forecast

My last two Tracker gas bills have used averaged / profiled daily consumption, not actual smart meter readings. I'm seeing smart meter data in the Octopus app so I guess there have been occasional half-hour slots missing from the data pulled by Octopus. Again, no big issue over the summer but could be a problem when we get into the winter.

Tracker doesn’t/shouldn’t need hh though it’s a daily rate

debitcardmayhem

Oh my bill for the 23/6 averaged 4.74(4.977 inc vat)

crumpet_man

debitcardmayhem said:

QrizB said:

Gas is below 5p/kWh for the weekend. Not that we'll need much, with the weather that's forecast

My last two Tracker gas bills have used averaged / profiled daily consumption, not actual smart meter readings. I'm seeing smart meter data in the Octopus app so I guess there have been occasional half-hour slots missing from the data pulled by Octopus. Again, no big issue over the summer but could be a problem when we get into the winter.

Tracker doesn’t/shouldn’t need hh though it’s a daily rate

Which means you should be charged the rate for that day for actual usage, not averaged over the month.

QrizB

crumpet_man said:

debitcardmayhem said:

QrizB said:

Gas is below 5p/kWh for the weekend. Not that we'll need much, with the weather that's forecast

My last two Tracker gas bills have used averaged / profiled daily consumption, not actual smart meter readings. I'm seeing smart meter data in the Octopus app so I guess there have been occasional half-hour slots missing from the data pulled by Octopus. Again, no big issue over the summer but could be a problem when we get into the winter.

Tracker doesn’t/shouldn’t need hh though it’s a daily rate

Which means you should be charged the rate for that day for actual usage, not averaged over the month.

Exactly this.

debitcardmayhem said:

Oh my bill for the 23/6 averaged 4.74(4.977 inc vat)

Mine was a bit higher, ~5.2 Inc VAT.

SJMALBA

crumpet_man said:

debitcardmayhem said:

QrizB said:

Gas is below 5p/kWh for the weekend. Not that we'll need much, with the weather that's forecast

My last two Tracker gas bills have used averaged / profiled daily consumption, not actual smart meter readings. I'm seeing smart meter data in the Octopus app so I guess there have been occasional half-hour slots missing from the data pulled by Octopus. Again, no big issue over the summer but could be a problem when we get into the winter.

Tracker doesn’t/shouldn’t need hh though it’s a daily rate

Which means you should be charged the rate for that day for actual usage, not averaged over the month.

From the Tracker FAQ:



In practice, any missing usage data will result in the whole month's usage being apportioned.

t0rt0ise

I asked via twitter about this. I said all my half hour readings were there so why would it be smoothed out across the month. They said something about as well as half hour readings they get a midnight daily reading and that is sometimes missing. Presumably we can't tell via apps if that is missing. Anyway they pulled readings and redid the month to find it would cost me a few pence more so left it as was.

QrizB

Yeah, that's the thing; at this time of year my gas use is so low that there's only going to be pence in it, in either direction.

If it was December through February, I'd be asking to have the data pulled too.

masonic

t0rt0ise said:

I asked via twitter about this. I said all my half hour readings were there so why would it be smoothed out across the month. They said something about as well as half hour readings they get a midnight daily reading and that is sometimes missing. Presumably we can't tell via apps if that is missing. Anyway they pulled readings and redid the month to find it would cost me a few pence more so left it as was.

Within the app, you will see a daily consumption figure in a separate tab to the index readings. This is probably what is being referred to. It isn't just calculated based on the sum of the half hour consumption for that day, as I have a missing value for 27th, but have a full set of HH consumption values for that day.