There are a number of alternative ways to trace your vitality use. The simplest, most correct method is thru the Octopus Power app. Here is how.
Selecting the ‘Utilization’ tab on the app will present you your vitality utilization charts.
When you’re within the utilization tab, you may faucet on the title of the view you’d prefer to discover:
- The day past
- Weekly
- Month-to-month
- Yearly
- Or, set your personal timeframe
Our vitality utilization graphs present the vitality you’re utilizing in kWh and £. You possibly can toggle between the 2 within the prime proper nook of every graph.
Once you select £, you may see a snapshot of your vitality prices excluding VAT and day by day standing expenses. You will discover your confirmed expenses together with VAT and standing expenses in your assertion.
(Good to know: our app characteristic displaying your vitality in £ is already rolled out for the overwhelming majority of accounts. When you’re on one in every of our good tariffs, or one other multiple-rate tariff, we’re nonetheless engaged on it).
Day view
This graph offers essentially the most detailed image of your vitality utilization all through the day. It’s solely obtainable for those who’ve set your meter to take readings each half-hour.
The charts are up to date as soon as a day. So within the morning, you may simply faucet ‘Day’ to try your earlier day’s utilization, and you may flip again in time to check your vitality use day after day.
The horizontal axis, which runs alongside the underside of the chart, exhibits the time throughout a single day.
The vertical axis exhibits your electrical energy or gasoline utilization in kWh, or in kilos and pence, relying on which model of the graph you’re taking a look at. You possibly can faucet every bar to see the particular time and utilization.
Over a single day, you’ll see the patterns of your gasoline and electrical energy utilization – once you’re utilizing essentially the most, and the way a lot that prices. This view is a good way to see whether or not any vitality saving measures have achieved the trick and saved you energy. Or you may examine spikes in your vitality use at sure instances to hunt out energy-hogging units.
Week view
Tapping ‘Week’ will present your weekly utilization, operating from Monday to Sunday.
You’ll see this chart in case your meter takes half-hourly or day by day readings.
Your complete utilization for the week is proven above the chart. And every vertical bar on the chart exhibits your complete utilization per day, in kWh or kilos and pence. You possibly can faucet every bar to see the particular date and utilization.
We replace the weekly chart as soon as a day, simply after midnight.
Month view
Tapping ‘Month’ will present your utilization for every day within the calendar month up to now. You possibly can faucet every bar to see the particular date and utilization. You may as well use the scroll above the graph to view your utilization for earlier months, to see how your vitality use modifications with the seasons.
Your complete utilization for the month is proven above the chart.
12 months view
Tapping ‘12 months’ will present your utilization patterns as they modify from month to month. Every vertical bar on the chart exhibits your complete utilization per 30 days.
Set your personal timeframe
Tapping the calendar in the suitable hand nook lets you set your personal timeframe. So for those who’d prefer to see your utilization from a particular date – for instance, from the date you obtained your newest assertion – you are able to do that by selecting the date after which deciding on ‘month’ from the drop down menu on the suitable.
The graphs you’ll see will depend upon how typically your good meter takes readings. You possibly can change how typically your good meter sends readings in your Octopus account or in your app at any time.
When you’d prefer to see your day by day utilization, we’ll ask for those who’d like to vary to half-hourly readings. And for those who’d prefer to see your weekly utilization, you may change to half-hourly or day by day readings.
You may see gaps in your utilization after we haven’t obtained an computerized meter studying. This could occur after we briefly lose connection together with your meter.
Gaps in your utilization usually don’t final lengthy. But when your charts have been lacking information for greater than per week, get in contact and we’ll look into it.
Different methods to trace your vitality utilization
You possibly can monitor your utilization in your Octopus account on-line, as nicely. You may discover your utilization data is extra detailed utilizing our app. Whereas we work on enhancing the Octopus on-line dashboard, we advocate utilizing our app within the meantime.
You possibly can monitor your vitality utilization in your In-Residence Show (IHD)
Once you get good meters put in, the engineer will give you an In-Residence Show (IHD).
It is a small, moveable display that exhibits how a lot vitality you are utilizing, or how a lot credit score you have obtained in your meter. Generally there are points linking up your IHD to your good meter, and it won’t all the time replicate precisely how a lot you’re spending or how a lot vitality you’re utilizing. Essentially the most correct solution to monitor your vitality is by way of our app, as an alternative.
Your In-Residence Show (IHD) is just not your good meter – it’s the little show unit that comes together with your good meter. Too many partitions between your IHD and good meter may imply they’ll’t join, so usually it’s greatest to maintain them inside 10 metres of one another. You possibly can verify the sign energy by trying on the 4 bars on the highest left of the display. The extra bars, the stronger the sign.
You don’t want a smartphone or WiFi to make use of your IHD – it connects to your good meter wirelessly by means of a safe protocol referred to as Zigbee (a low energy, low frequency radio community much like Bluetooth).
To take advantage of your In-Residence Show, it’s helpful to maintain it plugged in someplace you may simply see it. However it must preserve a great connection together with your good meter, so wherever you select to maintain it, verify the sign energy by trying on the 4 bars on the highest left of the display. The extra bars, the stronger the sign. If the sign is weak, transfer the In-Residence Show nearer to your electrical energy good meter.
We now have extra data on our weblog about the way to use your In-Residence Show, and the way to repair your In-Residence Show if it isn’t working.
