Is there a reason we can’t have a way of setting peak & off peak electricity costs?
Eg my tariff is 8.63p/kWh from 0030-0530hrs and 29.73p/kWh from 0530-0030. So why can’t I set that as my rates?
I can do that is any other energy app/device I seem to have. Just not Homey Pro, and can’t understand any logical reason why not??
I can’t use the Dynamic Price option as it’s also inexplicably not available in the UK.
And if I select the fixed price it tells me to use an average which is not accurate at all as I load shift to do as much as possible in the cheap window.
So as an example using my tariff it would average at 25.33p/kWh. Which means Homey would calculate 10kWh of usage as £2.533p. However if that 10kWh was all used during the cheap window it would only be £0.863p. So the cost would be estimating it 3x higher than what it actually is. Meaning I can’t do anything useful with flows etc based on cost of energy.
I have suggested this as feedback to Athom but I didn’t even get a response. So wondering if anyone knows why this isn’t implemented?
As an example of a different app I have. This allows you to input peak, off peak and daily standing charge into the settings to give a very accurate estimation of what costs are.
It says the standing charging/kWh there but in the settings it is per day and that is just a typo bug.
And this app does it all from the API of my electricity account, which maybe a easier way for Athom to implement.
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