Return to Octopus from Tomato

Chrysalis

Weekly is populated for Thursday and part of Friday , also the beta feature where it shows cost for unbilled usage is considerably lower now than when I was on flexible.  The mini is so good filling in all that lag and the live usage as well, all on the app and website.

This has caught my eye, kind of similar to lifestyle with 3 off peaks.

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/comment/81362059/#Comment_81362059

I dont know how much OE police entry on to the Snug tariff, it also has the lower SC same as E7.

WBCPB

Received the "FYI: Changes to your tariff" email at 08.00am this morning so my switch from Tomato-Octopus Flexible-Octopus Go took approx. 2 days.

masonic

WBCPB said:

Received the "FYI: Changes to your tariff" email at 08.00am this morning so my switch from Tomato-Octopus Flexible-Octopus Go took approx. 2 days.

It seems like I am by far the slowest then, halfway through day 6 and no sign of any smart meter data. 

No matter, I've already decided to keep the 12 month E7 fixed tariff for the time being. Got them to adjust my account yesterday over the socials and start the process of switching me to E7 on the national database. Thankfully the internal changes took effect within minutes so it appears as a straight switch from Flexible E7 to 12m E7 on my account.

Costings for Tuesday-Saturday (5 days): £2.59 energy cost, £4.98 total vs Agile £2.36 and £5.10. That standing charge makes quite an impact when it's 50% of the bill. My consumption was triple that just a couple of months ago. So far it's cost me 88p to have switched from Tomato.

I see that there is a fair bit of nuclear power offline at the moment, so perhaps in a week or two Agile will get a bit cheaper.

Chrysalis

masonic said:

WBCPB said:

Received the "FYI: Changes to your tariff" email at 08.00am this morning so my switch from Tomato-Octopus Flexible-Octopus Go took approx. 2 days.

It seems like I am by far the slowest then, halfway through day 6 and no sign of any smart meter data. 

No matter, I've already decided to keep the 12 month E7 fixed tariff for the time being. Got them to adjust my account yesterday over the socials and start the process of switching me to E7 on the national database. Thankfully the internal changes took effect within minutes so it appears as a straight switch from Flexible E7 to 12m E7 on my account.

Costings for Tuesday-Saturday (5 days): £2.59 energy cost, £4.98 total vs Agile £2.36 and £5.10. That standing charge makes quite an impact when it's 50% of the bill. My consumption was triple that just a couple of months ago. So far it's cost me 88p to have switched from Tomato.

I see that there is a fair bit of nuclear power offline at the moment, so perhaps in a week or two Agile will get a bit cheaper.

When is Nuclear power all online? Since I found EDF status website, I have checked probably over a dozen times, and is always outages of some sort.

masonic

Chrysalis said:

masonic said:

WBCPB said:

Received the "FYI: Changes to your tariff" email at 08.00am this morning so my switch from Tomato-Octopus Flexible-Octopus Go took approx. 2 days.

It seems like I am by far the slowest then, halfway through day 6 and no sign of any smart meter data. 

No matter, I've already decided to keep the 12 month E7 fixed tariff for the time being. Got them to adjust my account yesterday over the socials and start the process of switching me to E7 on the national database. Thankfully the internal changes took effect within minutes so it appears as a straight switch from Flexible E7 to 12m E7 on my account.

Costings for Tuesday-Saturday (5 days): £2.59 energy cost, £4.98 total vs Agile £2.36 and £5.10. That standing charge makes quite an impact when it's 50% of the bill. My consumption was triple that just a couple of months ago. So far it's cost me 88p to have switched from Tomato.

I see that there is a fair bit of nuclear power offline at the moment, so perhaps in a week or two Agile will get a bit cheaper.

When is Nuclear power all online? Since I found EDF status website, I have checked probably over a dozen times, and is always outages of some sort.

True, but we've had a lot of planned shutdowns in recent months. After this month, there is a clear run until September. The unplanned stuff is easier to tolerate when you don't have 2+ generators in planned shutdown at the same time.

masonic

Day 10 and still no data feeding through to Octopus. Perhaps I'll be contacting them next week to ask them to look into it. Data continues to feed through into Bright and n3rgy.

WBCPB

My home mini live data feed has now stopped after working ok for the first 2 days and also my "week" screen is not showing any standing charges in the costs.I remember now why i threw it into the drawer during my last contract.  All data and full costs showing in both Bright & Ivie, poor show from the once great tentacled one.

masonic

I had a lot of trouble from my home mini, which I eventually found out was due to my ISP using wifi optimisation. It couldn't cope when my router regularly switched wifi channels. Once wifi optimisation was turned off it was fine.

The app has only ever shown consumption costs, whereas the cost shown by IHDs usually includes the standing charge.

WBCPB

masonic said:

I had a lot of trouble from my home mini, which I eventually found out was due to my ISP using wifi optimisation. It couldn't cope when my router regularly switched wifi channels. Once wifi optimisation was turned off it was fine.

The app has only ever shown consumption costs, whereas the cost shown by IHDs usually includes the standing charge.

All i can find on my Asus router around "wifi-optimisation" is Smart Connect - "smart connect is the feature that could automatically steer clients to the most appropriate band (2.4GHz and 5GHz)" and mine has always been disabled, so it is back into the drawer for the "beta" mini.

masonic

For me it was something my ISP had set up and I couldn't configure, so I had to ask for it to be stopped.