[APP][Pro] Power by the Hour: Insights per hour, day, month and year

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v5.0.2 is ready for testing: Power by the Hour | Homey

  • Added settable yearly budget for Gas, Electricity and Water.
  • Added linear usage distribution over the year.
  • Added NL_2023 usage distribution (prijsplafond) for Gas and Electricity.
  • Added % on/above/under the budget for Month-to-date and Year-to-date.
  • Update to homey-api@1.10.5.

This version again brings a significant new feature: Real-time comparison with a yearly reference gas/electricity/water usage, based on a settable budget. Since in winter you usually use more then in summer, a distribution is applied. Next to a linear (flat) distribution, I implemented the distribution that is used by the Netherlands Government for the 2023 price ceiling (‘prijsplafond’).

This means that all people in the Netherlands can now automatically guard if they stay within the PRIJSPLAFOND limits set for 2023

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I will definitely use it myself to automatically disable my car charging if I don’t have any headroom left, and resume charging when I should again gain some headroom.

But usage is certainly not restricted to Dutch residents. You can set the budget yourself to any value you want. To enable the function for the summarizer of your main meter, go to advanced settings and select a distribution scheme (linear or NL_2023).

This update is on top of the changes already made in the v5.0.x test versions. So this brings the list of most important changes in v5.x.x to the following:

New:

  • added seperate DAP device for gas spot prices
  • added all gas spot prices from Spot market data | Powernext
  • Added settable yearly summarizer budget for Gas, Electricity and Water
  • Added linear usage distribution over the year
  • Added NL_2023 usage distribution (prijsplafond) for Gas and Electricity: Volumegrenzen Prijsplafond 2023 - Google Sheets
  • Added % on/above/under the budget for Month-to-date and Year-to-date.
  • Added multiple selections during summarizer pair
  • added support for Qubino 3-phase meter.

fixes:

  • fix DAP 25 hour day ghostprices
  • fix DAP Daylight Savings Time handling
  • fix DAP new exchange rate not applied immediately
  • fix DAP ‘price now’ flow tag decimals
  • fix DAP English title and-card
  • fix summarizer bugs for some source devices/apps
  • fix app crash on setSettings

optimizations:

  • rewrite UTC time handling of DAP pricing sources
  • rewrite summarizer driver to support more devices/apps
  • added DAP source pricing sanity check
  • DAP code refactoring for easier software maintainance
  • improved DAP price fetching retry and backup service handling
  • make tariff group 1 default for new summarizer devices
  • update to homey-api@1.10.5.

deprecated:

  • removed FrankEnergy as DAP datasource
  • removed old gas DAP support USER ACTION REQUIRED
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