The simple way to track your energy in real time, right from your phone.
The Octopus Home Mini is a brand new, cutting-edge bit of tech that makes understanding your energy usage easier than ever before.What exactly is the Octopus Home Mini?
The Octopus Home Mini is a small, palm-sized device that beams live readings from your smart meter to our cloud-based platform Kraken, so we can show you up-to-the-minute smart insights via your Octopus Energy app.
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Accessing your live data is easy.
You just need to plug the Home Mini in, follow the setup journey in the Octopus Energy app and you'll soon be able to see your electricity consumption and what you're spending in near real-time and your gas every 30 minutes.
Firstly, what is it?
It’s a small pink device that is designed to give you a more detailed view of your current energy usage, as measured by your smart meter.
It does this by connecting to both the “Home Area Network” (HAN) that is part of your smart meter installation AND your wifi. It then acts as a bridge between the two, pushing readings from your smart meter to a remote service. In this case Octopus system and their mobile app.
While smart meters allow your energy supplier to read them whenever they want, in practice they don’t do this constantly. Smart meters are only required to store data for half-hourly periods, so even if your supplier was constantly checking they wouldn’t be able to get a real-time view of your usage.
Devices on the HAN can read the electricity meter every 10 seconds. This is how your In-Home Display (IHD) is able to give you a more real-time view of your usage.
Note you can’t read gas meters this often as they’re not designed to do that. You can only get half-hourly readings from them.
So the Octopus Mini basically acts likes an IHD, but it just pushes
the data to the cloud, so the readings can be displayed in an app rather
than a physical device in some corner of your home.
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