Questions about monitoring my electricity

nologo

Qyburn said:

nologo said:

Octopus mini (free from octopus) although longish wait to get one shows on the app, live use, generation, export, consumption,  approx cost/earnings,, needs a smartphone  or tablet  though,& needs a young offspring to set up..(well I did)

regards nologo

My Mini doesn't show export. We're currently exporting at over 2kW ..

mine does (allthough Its almost dark here)

Qyburn

Interesting. Outer Mini was commissioned before we had solar, maybe it needs a tweak to support export. I'm not sure I can face doing battle with Octopus though.

nologo

in all fairness we don't have a battery, so I'm not sure the mini would work so well depending on how the battery is connected?

debitcardmayhem

I found the home mini tiresome in that the day view shows gas at 30 mins intervals, good , import similarly 30 mins good, BUT export uh-uh no “Your data is on its way” either the app is broken or the mini doesn’t send the data to the cloud. Fortunately my inverter/battery combo has and app and a website that tells me how much I export, oh and the import and current usage.

Petriix

Qyburn said:

Interesting. Outer Mini was commissioned before we had solar, maybe it needs a tweak to support export. I'm not sure I can face doing battle with Octopus though.

Export is only supported on certain meters; not mine apparently. 

The only way I can see self-use and export is through the Myenergi app for my EV charging point. I wish Octopus would come up with something to do this.