NEW upgraded Octopus "In Home Display"

debitcardmayhem

northernstar007 said:

MouldyOldDough try the app on your phone rather than the website 
on the app does give live usage 

I think he/she has been told that before

Alnat1

The light should be white not green I think, well mine is white and it's working.

FreeBear

northernstar007 said:

MouldyOldDough try the app on your phone rather than the website 
on the app does give live usage 

Yup, this is what I found.

However, the app is flaky and unreliable on my tablet - Need to do a factory reset & reinstall all the apps to get it to work properly.  Fortunately, I can pull the data by other means and use other programs to display it.

MouldyOldDough

On the android app
I get the same dates delay
Plus I see a bar graph showing a total of 0.3576p today electricity 
Gas is zero 
Live is the same as on Windows 

The_Hawk

MouldyOldDough said:

Update :

The home mini has now been running for over two weeks and still is over 24 hours behind with electricity  readings and 48 hours behind with gas !!

It does show "live consumption" accurately.

Octopus told me to move the device closer to the meter - but the green LED is lit on it already and the live reading being correct - so not a signal issue and we have no sockets closer (it is 12 feet away as the octopus swims)

Anyone got any further suggestions ?

For example - this morning (07 Jan) - it still hows yesterdays electricity thus...

@Alnat1 is correct, the light should be white, not green. Green indicates that your Home Mini is connected to your WiFi, but is still trying to connect to your meter, so the advice to move it closer to the meter seems a sensible starting point.

MouldyOldDough

The LED is white - I was mistaken

And still no luck with the device

I asked Octopus but was told "To be honest, the Home Mini team haven't been able to provide a huge amount of advice. The main message is that the Mini works best within 5 metres of the WIFi source"

But the signal IS fine - it connects instantly but doesn't show correct, up to date data

Not much help

So I gave up........

Chrysalis

VoucherMan said:

Netexporter said: you can get real time consumption on your phone or PC, amongst other things.

Has anyone figured out a way to connect the Home Mini to a PC without a smartphone? I've tried the Octopus app on a couple of emulators, but neither has a bluetooth connection, so the Home Mini won't register!

You probably need a phone to register it, but after that it might possibly work in a emulator.

Qyburn

MouldyOldDough said:

I asked Octopus but was told "To be honest, the Home Mini team haven't been able to provide a huge amount of advice. The main message is that the Mini works best within 5 metres of the WIFi source"

It took quite a while to get mine working.  Mostly it sat with the light that indicates it's connected to wireless but not talking to the meter. Octopus kept going on and on about "try moving it nearer to the WiFi router".

I told them it was registered with the access point, had been given an address by DHCP, and responded to ping. I even ran a packet capture showing it talking to two different Internet addresses, and getting replies. I might as well not have bothered, they still wanted me to try it closer to the router before doing any other troubleshooting.

millie

I was told by Octopus that it would not work because our internet was 2.4ghz it would only work on 2.2ghz I put it on a drawer and forgot about it. A few months later I tried it again and to my surprize it worked.

FreeBear

millie said:

I was told by Octopus that it would not work because our internet was 2.4ghz it would only work on 2.2ghz

Someone there knows nothing about WiFi - 2.4GHz is the main frequency, the alternative if 5GHz. There is no 2.2GHz band.

The main chip inside an Octopus Home Mini is an ESP32 which can only ever operate at 2.4GHz.