Homey Energy provides real-time insight into your home's energy consumption and generation. It's transparent and well-arranged, allowing you to quickly identify energy guzzlers.
Functionality
Homey Energy allows you to:
- Get real-time insights into your home’s power usage.
- Identify energy consumption per zone.
- Use obtained insights to create Flows to save energy.
How it works
The Energy tile can be found on the Devices tab in the mobile app. Here, you can instantly view the real-time energy consumption of your entire home. When you tap on a specific zone in the Devices tab, for instance, Living Room, the Energy tile adjusts to display values for that particular zone.
Depending on the zone from which you tap the Energy tile, it presents an overview of power consumption for that zone, neatly organized by device and subzone. Within the overview, you can tap on the chart to highlight specific subzones or devices, revealing their corresponding energy usage. This feature allows you to identify power-consuming devices progressively.
If you have smart meters or solar panels, these will be displayed on the My Home level.
Solar Panels
If you have solar panels with a connected inverter, the interface provides insight into your home's current energy yield. Homey supports most inverters that feature an app. To be sure, you can check out the Homey App Store.
The outer ring in the main Energy interface shows your solar panel's production compared to your home's usage. This way, you can see at a glance whether your home is using or generating power at the moment and the relative difference between the two.
Smart Meters
If you have a smart meter connected to Homey, it shows up in the overview, stating the current energy usage. The energy consumption measured by the smart meter but cannot be linked to a specific device or zone is grouped into an ‘Other’ category, which shows up as the hatched area.
Only devices with power-measuring capability or estimates will be included in the overview.
💡 Depending on the device, the energy characteristics can be added to the energy settings.
