Simon Hobeck
I have a Givenergy home battery. The company recently went into administration. Their mobile app has just been updated and its shit! They have removed so much, and what's left is ugly and nags about upgrading.
Just hoping someone creates an alternative.
#givenergy
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Show threadTim Ward ⭐🇪🇺🔶 #FBPE8h ago

@Shobeck They claim that local access will always work. Which is OK for one of our systems where we have Home Assistant, but not for the other where we don't and it would be a pain to install. (I've never used the app anyway. I don't piss around on a tiny phone screen when I can use a real computer with real display, keyboard and mouse.)

#givenergy #HomeAssistant

Show threadSimon Hobeck8h ago
@TimWardCam does it work ok with homeassistant? I heard that was an option. the mobile app used to give me what i wanted.
Show threadTim Ward ⭐🇪🇺🔶 #FBPE8h ago
@Shobeck Yes, it works fine with #HomeAssistant. Here's one of my dashboards. But getting into Home Assistant can be rather a big deal if you're not using it already and you don't find that sort of thing fun.
Show threadGareth 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿8h ago

@Shobeck
I’m not at home and haven’t been able to re-add my battery after upgrading the app (the battery/inverter is in my IoT VLAN, so it can’t be detected by the app which I’m assuming is only scanning the VPN range).

What I’ve done is sign up for Axle as mentioned in the GivEnergy email this morning. I found a referral code on YouTube so I’ve already got £25 credited to my account, they are currently guaranteeing a minimum of £10 per month for buying electricity from your battery at peak times (£1 per kWh, in addition to the 12p I currently get by exporting excess solar and battery capacity to Octopus). As a side benefit, that also gets me the GivEnergy Premium subscription for free, so I’ve got all the old functionality back.