App Profile: Home Aid

Home-Aid is a project I started working on mid-2021 to help me easily view my electricity and gas usage via my Octopus Energy smart meter. The aim was for me to see what I was spending, when I was spending it, and therefore use this data to adjust my home energy usage accordingly.

As the cost of energy rises and we all come under pressure to monitor and reduce our energy usage where possible, I figured that this app might be of use to the public, and if it helps just one person out there then it has served its purpose well.

I will be regularly updating this app with new features and tweaks, so if you would like something added or changed, please let me know by leaving feedback. As I say, this app has helped me an awful lot over the past year and I hope that its wider public release will at least help someone else.

Features include (but are not limited to):
* View energy usage with awesome statistics over the past weeks and months
* Drill down into half-hourly usage
* Add your tariffs (either custom or select an Octopus Energy tariff) to view costs and amounts
* Compare on peak usage to off peak usage
* Support for variable Agile Octopus rates (the app will download these new rates regularly; the next days rates are published by Octopus Energy at around 4pm each day).
* View a forecast for this months bills with estimations based on current and previous usage

And much more



Just a few notes:
- Your actual octopus energy bill may or may not differ slightly to the amounts shown, therefore any amounts shown in this app should be used only as a rough guide.
- You must be an Octopus Energy customer with a smart meter
- Neither I nor this app is affiliated in any way with Octopus Energy. I do not work for Octopus, I have simply created an app that uses their API.